It’s surprising that Maruti took so long to make a serious upmarket people mover after experimenting in the utility vehicle segment with the Omni and the Eeco. In April 2012 Maruti revealed its take on a multi utility family ride – the Ertiga. They also insisted that we would fall in ‘luv’ with it and called it a LUV or Life Utility Vehicle, instead of an MUV. It seems they were right too, because in just its first month of being on sale, Maruti received as many as 32,000 bookings. It had to do with the segment it addressed, of course, but more importantly its pricing was spot on. Even today it remains one of the more affordable MUVs one can buy priced between Rs 6.75 lakh for the base version and Rs 9.21 lakh for the top of the line ZDI.





And now here it is Maruti's latest offering, a new limited edition of Ertiga in order to mark their anniversary & to celebrate the sellings of 70,000 Ertigas till date in India. The new Ertiga is all new styled with new upholstery, new body design & some changes in interior. The upgraded upholstery looks classy & good. The seats get a 'Feliz' badging on them & new car pillows additional. The back seats get back pocket organiser which is pretty useful. The interior is revised with a new two-tone beige dash. The steering gets a beige leather cover. There is also a new 2-din car stereo which feels upmarket. The floor mats are also light off-brown in colour with beige piping all around. You also get additional stylish door sill guards with 'Ertiga' badging. One more additional feature added to the security section which a reverse parking sensors which is quite efficient.
From the exterior if we look we get a new attractive body decals & a new rear spoiler which gives the car a sporty look. Addition to it we also get a silver coloured front grills & some silvered touch-ups all over the car like in fog lamps & OSRVMs which makes it bit different from its predecessor. All total if we look its a good way to celebrate their anniversary offering some extra features. But only limitation is, this model is available only in VXi or VDi variants. Price for this is little bit more than the original Ertiga. However it may differ from place to place & dealer to dealer.


