Despite all the hoopla, the delhi auto show 2014 was suffocatingly disappointing!!

Once the dust has settled and if u sit down and look at the new models launched, none of the brands have managed to launch any jaw-dropping model this year in India ! :-(

Suzuki X A Alpha was introduced in 2012 Auto expo and, even after 2
years, there are no signs of it's launch! The latest news is that the
 design has got outdated and it won't be ever launched!!

I, am waiting since last one year for the evoque look-alike, x a alpha car from the Maruti stable... The concept car was launched way back in 2012 auto show .. And the various car sites online ( motorbeam.com, etc) gave us false hopes through their questionable 'scoops' about it's launch date.. First they said it would be launched in sept 2013 ! When nothing materialised, the editor of this site then said it would be launch in the auto show and then finally with no credibility left and our faith in his so called 'scoops' lost , declared that the Maruti guys are going back to the drawing table because after 2 yrs of delays, the concept car has been outdated!!! 

Quite incredible! I thought that unlike Indian govt, the Maruti Suzuki venture was a much disciplined company that always managed to wow us ... But they are trying really hard to equal the Indian govt in false promises!!

I have finally lost all hope and washed my hands off the damn car! 

But when I looked at the competition, they were no better :-( Ford Ecosport has great looks

The Ford has captured the imagination of us Indians,,, But on a
 closer look, it has got a very unimaginative and disjointed side look
 - which fails to swoon :(

from front and rear but has a very ordinary side look, and it has a waiting of more than nine months! And imagine the extent of corruption in India... A friend of mine interested in the ford car asked them about the delivery And they offered to provide it within 1-3 weeks if he gave Rs.1 lakh extra under the table!!

Isn't it the sexiest sedan you have seen from Ford! And you could have had those Austin Martin looks for just 15 lakhs! But, alas, the Ford don't find us worthy of this beauty at all... why else they wouldn't display it in the Delhi Auto Expo 2014!!

 Then there was the sexy new ford mondeo 2013, with looks reminding us of an Austin Martin ! But the blokes didn't even keep the car in the auto show, forget it being launched in India..... :-( instead they launch The mediocre figo sedan... Guess we are too third world for Mondeo to be a success here... 

Instead, Ford introduced this blink and you miss sedan -
 basically a stretched Ford Figo hatchback! :(

Is it a sedan !!??? ... .wait ..let me see... yes.... no... yes... !!!

Renault just modified it's existing cars and placed it on the show ... They did show some futuristic crossover - but it was just that - a lot into the future! What about right now guys ! No where to be seen was the Renault Captur, the sexy compact SUV which they have already launched in other countries.. Again, guess we are too third world for them!!!! All they showed were the modified and updated Duster and Scala which are more than two years old already!!

Renault Captur. Ain't this one heck of a car!! Well don't get too excited- because this ain't coming to India in near future...

The honda stable seems to be regressing rather than progress - the 2009 Honda city was way better looking than the latest 2014 one .. The latest city has got those ugly corners jutting out in the front and back which makes it look like a predecessor rather than a successor to the awesome 2009 city!:-(

Honda has improved the interiors and now give us a diesel option... but have blatantly copied the 2009 version's looks... and in the process have made it quite ugly! The alloy wheels they are offering are so embarrassing!! almost an after thought!... And what's with that in-your-eyes chrome overdose on the grille!! 

My God! Such boring Chinese looking
 headlights on Honda Brio! :-(

...And equally boring is Brio's stretched up
 version - Amaze.......

I agree it has got the much talked about diesel engine - but what about the looks! All other cars in it's stable are also quite mediocre looking to be frank ... Any sexy car swoons us by it's headlights , but with such mediocre headlights in Amaze and Brio, I just cry out to god!

It seems that very few of us Indians at all go by the aesthetics of the car... Rather what comes first on most guys' lists are how spacious is it , what's the mileage and the gadgets within -- why else are they all doling out such ugly, ugly cars!!!!

Even the Honda Vezel ( based on the sexy Honda SUV concept) won't be launched - reason being it is not economically viab

Nope! We Indians are not suitable customers for this sexy car... at least that's what the HOnda management believes, and that's why they are not going to introduce this beauty in the Indian Market!

le to sell it in India . Instead it launches the ugly box of a car Brio based MPV .. which is Basically a stretched Out Honda Brio :-(

This is what the Honda has for the Indian Market instead of the amazingly sexy Vezel!!  

With no decent car in the horizon, the only decent hatchback since last several years is Suzuki Swift and may be VW Polo .. The Hyundai i20 is also being made cheaper and uglier day by day rather than make it more sexy! So that it looks closer to i10 now then i30 ( which incidentally they don't launch in India, Because they don't think that us Indians can afford it :-/). Then there is Grand i10 and the ugly Ford Figo... Are we considered to be so simple-minded that all the Ford has for us is the ugliest they could make - Figo!???!

In entry level sedan it's again Dzire and Amaze ( again a stretched up ugly Brio) only... May be indigo Manza 

Ford fiesta classic has been here since last 5 yrs and so has been the Hyundai Accent ... Even these cars are better than the Amaze ! Or maybe to be fair, amaze is only slightly better! Skoda Rapid is good but quite pricey to be Frank ...

Then in the next category Comes the sexy Hyundai Verna fluidic ( again it has been around for about 2 yrs now!:( )

The VW Vento (Those plain Jane looks! It has the front look exactly as the Polo! I mean really!), and then the deteriorated Honda city :-(

Then in the new cross over SUV segment , we have been looking at the same Duster and Ecosport since a year .. And though we have been told that all the companies are just dying to launch cars in this segment ,  no significant development has been seen here.. The car critics were crying out loud from their roof tops that x a alpha is gonna bull- doze the competition in 2014 but it turned out to be a mirchi bomb that never exploded! :-(

The Nissan Terrano is just a copy cat of Duster and even an expensive one at that... The companies seem to be taking us all out for a ride with such ridiculously ugly cars they are selling us ... 

The two wheeler segment is the one that is showing promise in a true sense ... Honda dustur And the new pulsar amd new harleys looked pretty amazing ! Even the ktm duke hots up things in this category!

I will not talk about the Toyota guys because they seemed to have stopped evolving a long time back ( remember the new Corolla a decade back!? That was the last big thing from them) the etios liva and it's stretched version are pretty simple looking cars.

I guess it's not their fault entirely .. With the UPA govt constantly making it more and more expensive to produce anything in India .. we can hardly blame them for such  pitiful offerings ...

That's why probably  they are not launching world class cars like mondeo and vezel in India ... And if at all they do, they launch a horribly watered down version ! With very ugly headlights without any day time led or projector lamps or 18-19" alloy wheels ( which are pretty standard every where else!)

I desperately want to be an optimist but the auto car industry has got so suffocatingly boring here in India, that one wants to cry out loud in dismay ! 

There are some pretty good options above 15 lakhs , but come on, guys like you and me have not reached that stage in life yet that we can afford it right now! The Hyundai Elantra, VW passat ( jetta has boring headlights!) and the new A3 and Mercedes A class and BMWs look gorgeous but out of aam admi's budget :-(