The White Elephant

After procrastinating for almost a month, I finally couldn't avoid it and I had to drive. With a girlfriend who had a broken foot beside me, I had to drive and go to Jaipur as I was the one who wanted to see the pink city (though ironically there is nothing pink there).

Sx4 being an underrated vehicle in its category, I decided I might as well test the vehicle and see why is it termed as an underrated sedan. So at 5 in the morning with a limping girl beside me, we entered the parking lot and there she was standing a white coloured beauty (or rather a white elephant as my girlfriend calls her) ready to whistle through. Started with setting the trip B indicator to a zero and had already topped up the tank to its maximum capacity we left and soon I could see Delhi in my rear view mirror.

Delhi – Jaipur highway being under construction since (I don’t know how many) years, the start was a bit slow as there was quite a bit of traffic near the Daruhera area. But once past that we whizzed through the journey. A brilliant sitting position with an advantage of an adjustable steering, my lower back (that at times behaves like my friend’s mother in law) dint utter a word. Our average speed was in the three figures and I did manage to take the white elephant to a 150kmph. Now the gujarati in me did scream his lungs out suggesting that the average will go down as I was driving fast but surprisingly I did manage to get an average of 13.5kmpl on the highway and 12kmpl in the city with the ac being permanently switched on coz as my girlfriend suggests “if you want to drive a car without the ac switched on, go ride a bike”.

Managing to take care of my girlfriend and her broken foot, reaching Jaipur within 6 hours, satisfying the gujarati in me & not harming my lower back it was a wonderful trip. I would like to take the white elephant out for a longer trip so that I could test her suspension and get used to the wonderful blind spot that Maruti has provided, (the A pillars of the car) suggesting it’s a wonderful design. I might want to add that if you don’t pay attention while taking turns, this wonderful design might just kill you and make a wonderful design of you but none the less overall it’s a beauty to drive and own.

About the author:

Kunal Choksi is an automobile enthusiast. 

He likes to read, travel and loves automobiles & gadgets.

Email – kunal-choksi@hotmail.com