Looking for car with low maintenance and driving cost? These are the best options for you.

Having a car is different thing and using, driving, and maintaining your car is different. Words clearly state that cars are for different needs, categories and users, if you have bought your car without understanding need, category or usage, you might face problems in driving and maintaining it. Most of the Indians who buy car are working class people who have a budget constraint. Apart from initial buying budget, all car buyers also do have a usage and maintenance cost. If, while buying a car, we do not select car according to our running and maintenance budget, if becomes difficult for many to use vehicle for a long time. Many times we see people who sell of their new cars some time after they buy it citing the reason of high running and maintenance cost.

In most of the cars, apart from regular service, oil, fuel and air filters have to be replaced after a specific usage. Usually after every 10000 kilometers of run, oil and fuel filters are replaced. The oil filter in petrol variant costs less than that of diesel variant. Replacing coolants, wheel alignment, tyre wearing away are other regular maintenance required on regular basis. So, when you buy a car, know the regular maintenance cost of the vehicle for next five years.

In this post, we discover top 5 cars which costs under the budget of working class and its running and maintenance cost is less as compared to many vehicles in the market. The information being shared with you is on the basis of user’s feedback, market research and other valuable inputs.

Maruti Celerio – In the segment of one litre petrol engine, car is available in both manual as well as automatic gear shift. Average maintenance cost of Celerio for six months is Rs 15000 (approximate)which include regular filter replacements, labour cost and general servicing.

Toyota Liva – Toyota cars are known to be economical in maintenance. It requires air filter and brake fluid replacement after 40000 KM in Toyota Liva and cost is as low as Rs 800. Apart from this, replacement of engine oil and filters, spark plug costs Rs 3500-4000 which is much low in the segment.

Hyundai Grand i10 – Highest selling car of Hyundai, Grand i10 regular service cost is low. After free services of the vehicle, the regular service costs between 2500-3000 which include engine oil, filters and other minor jobs.

Toyota Etios – This sedan version is preference of people who want to use commercially and those who want to use it for personal usage. As that of Liva, Etios too has very less maintenance and running cost. Regular service costs between 3500-4000 including labour and service charges.

Hyundai Eon – This 800cc segment is for those who want a small family car and have a limited budget of initial cost as well and maintenance. Company claims average maintenance cost of Rs 16000 for six years of normal usage.

The car market is flooded with numbers of manufacturers offering different categories of cars, models and its variants. We are not claiming any car to be superior or inferior but to identify your capacity to further spend on driving & maintaining cost of the car you are planning to buy. If you want car with fully loaded features and have capacity to maintain it well, go for high end models but if your post buying maintenance budget is limited, choose the vehicle accordingly. Hope you liked the post.