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Few roads can tell you what a car is truly capable of. An open, winding road is one of them. More often than not, it tells you what a car feels like, and whether it has all the trappings of a winner. But sometimes, they kill misconceptions, and bring out newer beliefs. It’s hard to explain, even harder to justify them, but such is life.
The new Hyundai Verna somehow started on just such a page. The previous car didn’t do anything wrong, but it didn’t do much right either. It led a life of mediocrity and therefore was blessed with mediocre performance even on the sales charts. Numerous facelifts, one as recent as last year, didn’t do much to change its fortunes. A sliver of hope, then, lies on the shoulders of the new one, a car that Hyundai hopes will change its luck in the C-segment and above as it plans an onslaught of new cars this year and the next.
The going won’t be easy. In a segment that has a VFM car like Maruti Suzuki’s SX4, a car with engineering finesse in the form of the Volkswagen Vento and the all-conquering Honda City whose only mistake is the lack of a diesel option, the Verna can feel truly overwhelmed. But can it overcome? We hit the open road, a road that truly opened our eyes to a new set of winners. And some really close results.
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