New Blood

Time to Liven Up the Segment!

- Paranjay Dutt

An armchair critic would by now have shunned this article, claiming that one of the cars is clearly better than the other. A more learned scribe would have given you, keeping up with the times, ten points on why you must put your hard-earned money on one and that the other’s a bit meh. But if you would have wisely skipped listening to either of them and taken a first-hand look at the two cars here — the Hyundai Grand i10 and the Maruti Suzuki Ignis — you would have had the same perplexing thought crossing your mind as I did. On the one hand is the rather well-selling Hyundai Grand i10, replete with features and a new engine. On the other is the all-new Suzuki Ignis which, along with a Maruti badge, also gets a diesel engine in India. And if I were to act my age, my money would be on the Ignis purely for its looks.