Honda Civic or VW Jetta or Chevrolet Cruze or Skoda Laura

Need some advice on buying my next car.

Want to buy a Sedan, My Budget is RS. 15 lakhs (can stretch it a little). So, my options are Honda Civic / Volkswagen Jetta / Chevrolet Cruze / Skoda Laura.

1. Honda Civic - Saw it, test drove it, liked it quite a lot. The interiors are pretty decent, as are the exteriors. Have had Honda City since ages (all generations), so have a lot of faith in Honda. However, have 2 major concerns - A. fuel efficiency, and B. Honda comes up with a new generation car every 5 years as they did with the City and the Accord. Civic might be up for an overhaul soon.

2. Volkswagen Jetta - saw it, test drove it, the interiors were a bit disappointing. Moreover, the car seemed overpriced, for its features and power. And then, have concerns about the after-sales service. So not very sure about it

3. Chevrolet Cruze - saw it, test drove it, the interiors were horrible (vis-a-vis the Civic and Laura). The plastic quality looked too cheap, moreover, the car seems cramped from inside. Not very keen on it now.

4. Skoda Laura - saw it, test drove it, loved the performance and interiors and exteriors. However, petrol variant might be too heavy on fuel consumption, while diesel one seems a tad expensive. Good part is Skoda's brand and quality, and the fact that 2009 was the year they overhauled the car, so a new generation might still be far off.

Moreover, is there any point in spending INR 2 lakhs more on a diesel car upfront, when over a 80K kms, 8-year horizon, I might save only INR 1.5 lakhs on fuel?

Quite confused. Eager to get advice from experts, past/current/likely owners of the above. Thanks.

Hi Abhinav,
There are few people from India on this forum that can help you out.

I am not a big VW fan anyways only car I liked from VW is a GOLF R32 2 Door Coupe

Jetta is not that great as you said above and yes for India it is well overprices and over-rated as its an import.

Honda Civic is a nice car , I drove 2009 Honda Civic Canadian Specs while I was in Canada for holidays and went to Newyork from Ottawa. Drove my mates Civic about 9000K's in 3 weeks .
I must say it is quiet Fuel efficient .

Chevrolet cruze is a value for money if your Range is 15 lac ,you'll probably end up saving some if your going to get that one. But Dhhawal lately told us finish of that car isnt that great but its okay for what your paying.
Skoda: Dont know about Laura not many people buy them in Australia

first of all welcome to cartalk!!

from my past experiences with chevy, honda, and vw {never drove or owned a skoda}. i would buy the civic, its pretty fuel efficient and is a great car overall.

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What kind of mileage are you looking at?
The civic is a good car, I did buy it, but I sold it immedietly afterwards because it bottoms out fairly easily, especially with more than two people on board, the road conditions are responsible(in India) but I can't help thinking that honda is probably using its previous generation suspension at the rear because the suspension squats like a dog doing its business(if you know what i mean), and it does result in the tyres wearing out from the inside..

are there any differences in Canadian and indian specs? because the one I used in canada was awesome

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Can't say, but it is concievable since all the reputed car manufacturers treat the indian market like a step-son, when bmw introduced the 5-series in the indian market, they introduced it with the chris bangle design which was five years old at the time, intelligent move since the 5-series wasuinconventional to look at and didn't sell very well, so they thought they'd off load their unsold last generation model in india, honda also haven't introduced a single deisel variant in its line up, and you have five cars to choose from, the city, crv, accord, civic, or the jazz(if i missed one or two, i apologise), both the crv and the civic develop a pronounced negative camber when fully loaded, honda would never make this mistake in another market because they are the middle rung competitors, in india though, we buy anything, be it over-priced, or under equipped, for god sakes don't you remember the qualis?, toyota's runaway success in india, it was a forty year old design that was a huge flop in south africa...i guess in a few years time when the market becomes a lil more mature, we can expect to get more bang for our bucks...!

Choose from jeeta nd cruz both r best buy i drove jeeta upto 195 km/h its really gud. Cruz is loaded with features and features. Cruz is gud if u aftr features

Honda doesn't produce a lot of diesel models.
they love their i-Vtec and V-tec's dont they

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They do a 2.2L i-DCI, diesel engine which was/is shared by CR-V and the Accord..they rumors that they were gonna introduce this is the indian market but they never did...

yeah I know there are only few Honda Diesel engines isnt it

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