Maruti Eeco Test Drive
December 15th 2011 Posted at Cars
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Under the hood is lot of unusable space. Open the bonnet to find only the reservoirs for the coolant, washer fluid and brake fluid. Like the Omni, the engine is mounted beneath the cab. The front mid engine rear wheel drive layout of Eeco enables more cabin space, more boot space and much need traction.The gasoline filler is just above the right front wheel. The engine is the well known G-series which served the cars like Swift. The displacement of 1.3L G-series engine is scaled down to avail the small car excise duty.Eeco develops 73bhp of peak power at 6000rpm and 101Nm of peak torque at 3000rpm. A five speed manual transmission is teamed up with this engine. The rear wheel drive vehicle pulls up easily in first and second gears. Though the engine refinement is nothing to boast about, it is clearly best t Cooking Gadgets he passenger mover segment (read winger,omni).Historically the rear wheel drive (RWD) is said to be more fun to drive. Eeco is a rear wheel drive vehicle but is not meant for that. Eeco is undertyred and runs on 155 R13 tubeless tyres. The skinny tyres (also the lack of allloy wheels) spoils the looks to.Unlike the Versa, Maruti Eeco lacks the power steering which means you have to work out heavily not in gym but with hard steering wheel to sneak trhough the traffic. But Eeco is easy to park with smaller turning radius and also it takes up less road space.If you think, Eeco is more prone to roll because of the tall wagon silohuette, the think again. Eeco handles corners with ease. Eeco occupants never felt frightned during our test drive. Ventilated disc and drum brakes at the rear offers the required bite.