A-Star - it it really so?

As far as the styling of the A-Star is concerned, I don't daresay it's bad. Neither do I deem it good from all sides. What I feel is like they had a review after the basic shape of the car was built, and the design team had indeed done a good job. But the reviewer wanted the front of the car to look better. So he asked them to add more beauty to the front. But all the beauty they had been allowed to use on the car had already been spent on it. So what they did was to take off some from the back and add it to the front. So they got a front which is absolutely striking to look at, and a rear which is just plain ugly. The side profile demonstrates their sincere effort in merging both. I would've liked it better, had they made the rear window a bit more bigger - at least Swift big. Anyway it's only as ugly as the rear.

If, by any chance, the A-Star gets a break down, their owners will sell them at once, because if they try to push it to the nearby workshop, while doing that, they'll see how the car looks from behind, which is horrible. And with the A-star, Maruti seems to be so confident that the owners will never have to push it. So the owners will not see their cars from behind. And it's going to work, till they notice that the name of the ugly car that goes in front is 'A-Star'. Which will never happen, because noone dares to have a second look at it from behind :)

But they say the engine is very peppy, which can stretch a litre of fuel to about 19.6 kilometers. This level of resource squeezing is usually found only in Indian Software companies. And as the end result, what they have made is one of the most fuel efficient petrol cars in India. And it's a lightweight aluminium engine. Again, it's not my choice, because it is a 3-cylinder engine, which I'd accept but had it been 15 years ago.