auto transmit-ion cars under 10lakh

Honda City City: The City 'manual' is a piece of cake. Why on earth would you need an 'automatic' to come between you and the driving pleasure? But, a few lazy bums (or rather arms) must have asked for it and hence they got it. Despite the automatic, the City hasn't lost much of its sharpness. The 5-speed automatic is a treat, even though it demotes you from the 'one-in-control-of-the-car' status and the transmission chooses its on gears without much of your say. But, all is not lost. The Honda has given you paddle shifts, just in case you don't feel completely ignored. You don't agree with the gear selection, you need to downshift further to overtake, press your thumb and the car scorches ahead at your command. Don't play down the AT as dumb yet. The intelligent AT of the city does respond to your pedal pushes. If you push it with some intent, the AT senses your need to overtake and downshifts to ease it. Price: Rs 9,77,500
 

  Hyundai Verna If you want an automatic transmission clubbed with a diesel engine then Hyundai's Verna is the car for you. The Verna's CRDi automatic box is again the same tried and tested 4-speed box used in the i10 and i20. Only difference is the gearbox has been altered a little with taller gear ratios to deal with the high torque. Also, the turbo lag in the Verna AT is much less compared to the Verna manual making the congested city drives a lot of fun. The AT transmission clearly makes the Verna a metrocity car, but no paddle shifts takes the fun out of highway driving. Price: Rs 9,02,000
 


Hyundai i20 i20 automatic box is the same 4-speed box as used in the i10. The i20 AT is mated with a 1.4L GAMMA petrol engine (instead of 1.2l in the i10), making your feel a little underpowered at times with a constant urge to downshift . Sadly, there are no paddle shifts to meet that urge. The Automatic Transmission i20 uses a 4-speed gearbox with an overdrive lock switch. Price: Starts at Rs 7,48,000


Hyundai i10 i10 provides automatic transmission in three of its variants namely Magna, Sports and Asta (with sunroof). All three variants are available with 1.2l Kappa engine. The 4-speed auto-box of the i10 is quite handy especially when caught in the city traffic. The gear shifts are more or less precise, and you don't miss the manual much. The auto-box has a tendency to downshift a little too often (especially in bumper-to-bumper traffic) to draw power leading to low fuel efficiency. On seamless highways the i10 automatic behaves as good as the manual, except when you are overtaking you'd wish it was on a lower gear. Price: Starts at Rs 5,2,0050 gear.

   Swift Dzire Maruti Suzuki India has launched the much-awaited 2012 model of their popular sedan ‘Swift Dzire’ in Indian Market. New Maruti Swift Dzire is based on the 2011 model of Swift hatchback which went on sale in August, 2011 in India, promising better dynamics, increased performance and improved CO2 emissions and better fuel economy. Maruti Suzuki India has limited the length of new Swift DZire under four metres to get the excise benefits (excise duty is10 percent on vehicles under 4 metres and 22 percent above 4 metres in length). As expected because of this benefit the new Swift Dzire is cheaper in comparison to the 2011 models. The base model of petrol Swift Dzire is priced at Rs. 4,79,000 (Ex-Showroom New Delhi) and base model of diesel is priced at Rs. 5,80,000 (Ex-Showroom New Delhi). The new DZire has at least 150 new features compared to the existing one. The company, however, will continue to produce the old DZire in stripped down versions to target the fleet segment. It is exepcted that Maruti will rename the sedan to cater the fleet services.