BIT By BIT

The Creta Takes Things Up A Notch To Keep Itself Relevant

- Raunak Ajinkya

Open admission: I love the Hyundai Creta. ‘That’s great. So this is going to be a heck of a biased review, isn’t it?’ You have good reason to think along those lines, but hold on. Another way to look at it is that since I love the Creta so much in its current guise, I’d be more critical than usual about change, wouldn’t I? Buying it yet? No?

Anyway, if you’re still with me, the Creta’s always been a soldier for us at Motoring. We’ve done pretty much everything with it. We’ve driven it across the country, lived with it for more than a year, crammed it full of unnecessary things just to see how much it would take, made countless trips intra-city, and thoroughly depended on it. It’s hard to not fall in love with something so compliant. And the oddity, for me at least, was that the Creta only got better with age. Its lines and curves got more appealing as the days peeled past, the sweet 1.6-litre diesel only got more driveable as we opened it up and piled on the kilometres. There’s a lot of good that’s gone into this car.