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Maintenance alone costs roughly ₹1.80 to ₹3.00 per kilometre for a mass-market car driven 10,000 km a year. That’s the ₹18,000 to ₹30,000 realistic yearly budget divided by the distance, and there’s nothing more complicated behind it. Scheduled service on its own is far cheaper, about 60 paise per kilometre on a Maruti Swift averaged …
A car’s length changes the tax you pay on it, and the rule turns on one number: 4,000 mm. Under GST 2.0, in force since 22 September 2025, a car that doesn’t exceed 4,000 mm attracts 18% GST provided its engine also qualifies: petrol, LPG or CNG up to 1200cc, or diesel up to 1500cc. …
How do you choose the right car loan amount? Work backwards from your monthly budget, not forwards from the car you’ve fallen for. Keep the car loan EMI inside roughly 10 to 15% of your monthly take-home pay, put down at least 20% of the price and borrow against the on-road price rather than the …
Your car loan EMI comes out of one formula: EMI = P × r × (1+r)^n / ((1+r)^n – 1), where P is the loan amount, r is the monthly interest rate (annual rate divided by 12, then by 100) and n is the loan tenure in months. Borrow ₹6,00,000 at 9% for 60 months …
Is Fronx 1.2 underpowered? No. The 1.2 litre petrol Fronx moves about 93.5 PS for every tonne it weighs, which is normal for a sub-4-metre SUV at this price, and it makes more power than the naturally aspirated engines you’ll find in the Venue and the Sonet. There’s one honest catch, and it’s load. Fill …
Which is better Fronx turbo or normal? The honest answer splits by how you drive. Book the 1.0 turbo if you spend real time on highways, climb ghats, or want the smoother automatic. Pick the 1.2 petrol if your world is mostly city traffic and you want the lowest price on road. Neither is the …
Is Maruti Fronx worth buying? For a city-first buyer who wants SUV seating height and Maruti’s low running costs at roughly hatchback money, yes. For someone expecting genuine SUV room or highway muscle from the base engine, probably not. And here’s the number nobody on the results page actually shows you: that ₹6.85 lakh sticker …
Which is better, Fronx or Baleno? The honest answer is that it depends on what you want from the car, because these two aren’t really rivals. They’re siblings. They sit on the same Maruti platform, both are sold through NEXA, and the petrol versions share the same 1.2-litre engine. So one isn’t good and the …
Why does Karnataka have the highest road tax? For the cars most of us actually buy, anything from ₹5 to ₹20 lakh, the answer is yes. And the reason catches people out: it isn’t the headline rate. Karnataka bolts an 11% cess onto the tax itself, and that drags your effective rate up to somewhere …
How much tax on a 10 lakh car? On a ₹10 lakh petrol car you’ll pay roughly ₹70,000 in Delhi to ₹1,56,400 in Karnataka as road tax on top of the price, and another ₹1,52,542 to ₹2,85,714 is already baked into that price as GST. So the total tax lands somewhere around ₹2.23 lakh to …
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