BHPian Sudhindra recently shared this with other enthusiasts.

I took the delivery of my car (HTX AE 7DCT) on the 3rd Aug and the entire process went smooth. I have driven around 1,900 km so far with around 70% of them on the highway(including 200 km in the ghat section) and the rest are city drives. I even completed the first service. These are my observations so far in comparison with Fiat Punto Evo I sold to the dealer in an exchange.

Some discomfort I felt in comparison with Punto are:

Here's what BHPian ashvek3141 had to say on the matter:

I 100% concur with all your above observations. I have a month & a half old HTX D AT & just did a 500 km road trip. Your observations #1 & #2 are absolutely spot on. I did mention this in my post too. This car is best-driven sub 100-110 km/h, anything above that feels a bit unnerving. The OEM MRF Wanderers make matters even worse.

Somehow the steering isn’t helping the case and like you mentioned needs continuous correction. When I had TD’d this during the launch, I found it pretty compliant at high speeds. I fail to comprehend what is missing here!

And thank you for mentioning this, felt a bit relieved that it’s not just me who feels this about the car.

Another point if I may add, is when picking up speed between 30-40 km/h, you can feel a slight wobble in the car. If one notices carefully there’s a bit of sideways ‘giggle’ if I could call it. Not sure if anybody else has experienced the same.

Here's what BHPian AbidIqbalShaik had to say on the matter:

It’s not just you who is experiencing the sideways vibrations. I have noticed it too. I have the Kia Sonet 1.5 CRDi VGT 6AT GTX Plus.

When I accelerate the car slightly harder than usual at a lower speed, there is a vibration in the car which makes you feel like something is vibrating sideways. Like, from the left to right and then right to left. The intensity of the vibration is not too low or too high.

Although I don’t know exactly what’s causing this issue, I think that the vibration is coming from the gearbox. The vibration almost feels like the oil is rotating (or going through fine holes) at high pressure. Sometimes it feels like the vibration when the clutch is slipping.

That being said, this vibration never made me worry if there is something wrong with the gearbox. I didn’t even bother to bring this to the attention of the service centre the last time I took the car for servicing. This vibration just didn’t seem like the one that could be a result of some problem. As funny as it sounds, I guess this is a “don’t worry, this is normal” kind of vibration. LOL.

Oh, just for your reference, my car has completed more than 5,700 kilometres so far.

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