The whole thing started with my father’s retirement from the railways, he introduced a new thought to purchase passenger motor vehicles to be used as taxis, 7 passenger vehicles to be special! The duty of finding a perfect passenger automobile was left to me personally.

3 models were finalised, Mahindra Xylo, Toyota Innova and also Chevrolet Tavera. All of them were quite enough to transfer up to 7 regular people. Now the main thing on my mind, just like everyone else who is planning to buy a car for taxi use, was actually mileage, ride comfort, price of spare components and low repairs and maintenance cost.

Innova seemed to be the good looking amidst the lot, together with a terrific quality interior, created strong and comfortable, but came at a considerable price tag, $2000 dollars even more than the others. Then came Tavera, extremely fuel effective, low on upkeep and trustworthy, however looked a bit like the mid 90s vehicles.

Mahindra Xylo looked like a stretched and compressed Scorpio, an SUV from the same company, to me. Although it had the right leg space and seat comfort among the three, servicing was a problem as there were few service centers in our town.

The Chevrolet Tavera appeared more competitive, since it had whatever we were looking for and surprisingly the Chevrolet dealers offered us a huge $3000 discount if we buy one of the 7 passenger vehicles plus the normal three year free service. That was a big thumbs up to go for Tavera. Tavera was available in 7 colors and we bought all our automobiles in various colors.

The seven passenger vehicles eat up all the space available in the car garage and my bike was forced out from there. Even though they are huge passenger vehicle, they act like a small sedan from the driver’s perspective. The control and drive-ability they offer is excellent.

The ride on the third row seat is a bit on the bumpy side. The quality of the plastics used on the car are good, but not as good as in the Innova. Now it is almost seven months since we bought these beauties, and they all have timed more than fifty thousand miles and still hold the huge smiles on our face.

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