AMT or manual for Bengaluru traffic: my clutch leg has an opinion, what about yours?
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Mine is a manual Baleno doing mostly city duty, and on an ordinary Outer Ring Road evening I genuinely wonder if I picked wrong.
The odd part is the paperwork does not back the usual "manual saves fuel" line. On Autocar India's Baleno mileage page the ARAI claim is 23.80kpl for the petrol manual and 24.77kpl for the AMT, so the automatic is ahead on the certified number. GaadiKey's review lands where my gut does: AMT for city use, manual if you actually want to enjoy the drive.
What keeps me in the manual camp is control on a wet flyover climb and the fact that I know exactly what the clutch is doing. The AMT crowd will say that is nostalgia talking in a Silk Board jam, and honestly they may be right.
So vote in the replies. AMT or manual, and tell me which part of your commute decided it.
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ajay_mehta· 1 week agoNandi, same boat with my Brezza manual. Silk Board traffic does make me question the clutch leg sometimes. But that ARAI gap you mentioned, less than 1kpl, won't really decide it for me, it's the resale and service cost difference that worries me more with AMT. Anyone actually priced AMT clutch plate replacement here in Bengaluru?
