Factor in the price differential between petrol and diesel and the diesel makes all the more sense. Also point to note, the Virtus has 5 extra litres of fuel tank capacity.

It's not just the Diesel factor But also the manual transmission which helped to max the range in our own hands

This is exactly the kind of vehicle review people wanted to see. Keeping day to day life into perspective. You guys earned my respect ❤️

I have a City eHev. My driving style has changed because of it.. especially the 250 NM torque it gives. Used to drive sedately and now have lots more fun. Yes it isn't as efficient as a diesel at highway cruising, never will be. Most of its efficiency comes from them braking. And if there's no braking, there's no energy recovered, it's only as good as any another efficient petrol. What's amazing is you can drive it with a heavy foot, having loads of fun and still get 17-18 on the highway. And in the city, it's just brilliant. Easily does 18-22 kmpl in very heavy traffic. Fun fact, in the recent Bangalore rains, i got stuck in traffic taking 3 hours to travel 6 kms. Reset the trip meter to see what it says after about a km of this. So it does 24 kmpl over a 5 km distance that took nearly 3 hours, and the AC was on full time. Because the engine was off most of the time coming on just once in a while to top up juice lost by running the AC.

Just a thought.... Imagine a diesel hybrid.

Wow! I didn’t expect this!! Do more stuff like this guys, loved it

By far the best video on Zigwheels i would say. It was an absolute bliss to watch this video as a Diesel Head ❤️😍 Pretty Straight Forward tech! Thanks a lot Zigwheels team !

Awesome video. What a comparison. Comparative results always are very informative. Thanks ZigWheels team.

Diesel fan for life... This video brought a huge smile on my face ☺

I bought the Vw Virtus on 23rd july 2022, completed 1700 kms till 2nd august and reported a problem to service centre when i went in for swagat check up that the car is pulling to the left. They tried to solve the problem by exchanging front tyres, got back the car, problem was not solved, reported it back on 6th august. They confessed that the car is new and they don’t have any data for wheel alignment. I was called back on 11th august, i dropped my car and back to back 3 wheel alignments were done with trials, problem was not solved i tried showing the car 3rd party wheel alignment centres and they did not have the data for the car too, until now i had completed 3400 kms, now i had a indistrial vist to ahmedabad, mumbai, pune for which i travelled 2400 kms in my car and i face severe left shoulder pain in my trip for those 10 days, now i dropped my car again and 2 wheel alignments have been done again but the problem has not been solved as i went for the trial, service centre has opened up the disk of the car( which is a technical term of vw service centre to solve the issue via company ) service centre has acknowledged the issue now, but none of have the solution for this. Now as a part of doubt i went and took a test drive of both manual and automatic 1.0 demo cars and both of them were pulling to the left, which was shocking. As a part of doubt now i went to check skoda slavia and noticed that the car has same problem, till now i drove 4 cars and reported the same problem. See i have experience of around 2 lakh kms of driving in last 10 years in which i have driven 80kms on my VW Polo, so i have not faced an issue like this before. One suggestion came in as the road bankings are made on the left side so the car pulls on the left side but them someone suggest to drive the car wrong side on the same road and if car is pulling towards the divider, opposite to the banking, then the issue is serious, i did it. This is a serious issue and i have a tremendous shoulder pain. Writing this to big car channel, so that Vw should recognise this issue. Thank you🙏🏼

I'd still have the Virtus for the sheer driving excitement that car gives you.

This is such a delightful comparison , You guys are amazing , Thank you !!!

Loved this Top Gear style comparo… with Tushar sounding like Jeremy with that game plan. More of these please!! ❤️

Love the turbo diesels...Am on my 3rd turbo diesel now. Started with the 1.3ddis Swift, the 1.5 renault and now the beastly 2.0 multijet 2 on the compass. Each of these engines are gems in their own right. Creamy power delivery , lots of torque , massive cruise ability.

You guys are killing it. Something NEW in the market about reviewing cars. My best wishes.😊

I own city hybrid. And I agree with the observation regarding highway drive. If you drive with a heavy right-foot then efficiency begins to drop. But at the same time - the hybrid makes up for that with its Adas features … my fav one being it’s adaptive cruise control.

Loved this video. Nice content. Really appreciate your work. Watched entire video without fast forward. Would like to watch same among all hybrids which are there in the market.

Well made and thought out video, the topic itself makes a lot of sense and ofcourse the diesel too. You are paying 4-5 lacs extra for a hybrid city and also compromising on boot space.!! Thanks guys, great video!! 🤘😊

I really enjoyed every second of this video! Amazing work guys! This was a needed video at this time, when the fuel prices are going up! Thanks!

I truly want Indian car manufacturers to bring hybrid down to 7-8 lakh rupee price range. It'll be far better than pushing gimmicky features like auto headlamps, auto wipers, push start stop, etc.

A diesel is a diesel is a diesel is a diesel

Again guys you did an amazing job love to watch video like this and that too with indian tadka. Watching same test on top gear was fun but in reality with day to day cars is much more informative. Great job!!!!

Few things missed and would have added a great value to the video. 1. Refueled and manual calculation would have defined the correct mileage. 2. Are all the vehicle tank capacities the same? If not, then point 1 would have come in handy.

Love the way u guys put content on cars!! Wishing u loads more success and followers!! Cheers guys !

Bhai aag laga di yaar👍 This is called Quality content👌 I give full marks to you guys 👌be it your presentation, effort, analysis, humor. All boxes checked 👍 Keep up such Excellent work 👌👌👌❤️

Its been a while That Ive been watching car review videos and this is the first time after a long time, a comparo has excited me that much. A lot of hard work and brilliant twist at the end made this one a hit!

What an amazing real world test! Makes perfect sense! Would love to see the new hybrids being put to test against the last remaining frugal diesels!

Tushar is right. Diesel makes sense even today. Diesel Cars are the OG one beast one. No hybrid or turbo petrol can beat them in terms of torque and mileage. 😤💪🏻

I think the hybrid makes way more sense for sedate drivers. They can extract a lot more with a light foot on highways if the electric mode runs more

Loved the video. Thank you. I am again happy to own a diesel Scross which gives me 26 kmpl on highways even after 52000 kms on the odo. A properly maintained diesel is actually not as polluting as it is projected to be. It's almost 19/20 between a normal petrol and diesel when it comes to CO2 emissions and other pollutants. Sad that we are being forced to let go the beauty of an engine and settle for hybrids and EVs. So if I have to let go my Scross in the near future, I will go for the Virtus. 700+ kms on a semi-performance car is hugely commendable. Fun to drive and frugal at the same time, like you guys mentioned

Good one guys 👍👍 Very Informative and love to hear more especially on hybrid engines in coming days ✌️✌️crossed fingers and waiting to see the performance of Vitara and Hyrider performance 😊😊

Watched the video fully without skipping! Now, that's the quality content. Keep it up Zigwheels!

Great video! A final calculation of ₹ per kilometre would have really added a lot of value and objectivity to the conclusion

This is what people really wanna see... Keep it Up guys❤️

Love love love it. Bring on more Hybrid tests

This was a perfect comparison, you guys did great.

Great comparison with conventional fuel VS Hybrid system. Your route of travel is from Mumbai to Gujrat highway is great way of explanation testing fuel efficiency in real condition.

Very nice content, loved every second of it ❤️

The best test drive.. we really wanted such reviews of the cars . 👍

Loved this kind of comparo, thank you Zigwheels Loved watching it 🤩🤩🤩

Great idea & comparison.... Really loved it... I'm with Tushar, I love turbo diesels, economy and you can have fun on highways without the guilt. But I'm not happy about diesels being eliminated one by one from market. Even at Honda it's hard to get a Diesel Amaze and even city. Plz save the diesel cars along with Tiger.

This is the video that made me coming back to this channel, i love this video

That was a 'one of a kind ' test.... excellent work guys

Amazing comparo… Simply amazing video, very informative and it was fun watching… Thumbs up Zigwheels

Now imagine how a *diesel-hybrid* would spare 💥

Very good experiment and super relevant to know where hybrid stands in present and diesel still rocks!! Miss them!

we definitely need more videos like this ! Great Video Guys

I love the video and would definitely recommend you to do more such videos. ❤️

This type of test has to be performed on CNG cars as well, it's a must to have this

Really enjoyed the video, thank you guys. 👍👍

It was a Goibibo test enjoyed watching it keep on getting such contents with new up coming hybrids

An applauds for efforts of you guys...👏 Driving almost 900kms for a video is really impressive...😎 Thanks for informative content...😇

One of the best videos and something different ❤️🔥👏👏loved it

Lovely lovely video guys enjoyed it. Keep it up. Waiting for more videos like this ahead.❤🎉

Hi friends, it is really interesting comparison. Really enjoyed every discussion you people had on the way. It was superb and looking forward such videos of comparison. Thanks all of you….

You guys have my respect, what a amazing video and effort

We need more such sort of videos guys❤ loved it 🎉

Great comparo. How does the maintenance cost of the hybrid over a 70k to 100k mileage + the premium on the purchase cost stack up against the diesel?

Great videos Guys... For a similar tank full to tank full done in city commute conditions, what would be the EHev advantage?

This is easily one of the most epic comparison of all time. Kudos to zigwheels team for putting out such great content. Take a bow you guys 🙌

Good to see Tushar & Allen after a while. Keep rocking 🍻

Very very interesting watch this was. Didn't expect the City Diesel to top, anyways, loved watching all the ZW fans in one frame.

Nice video...out of box thinking to do such a test with thse 3 cars. Pls do other hybrid comparisons once few more hybrids hit the roads.

Loved the content ...Please make more such videos.

continue this series.....excellent review really superb 👌🏻 👏 👍🏻

Fantastics Champs !! Totally enjoyed

Superb idea to test mileage of cars. Great video 👍

Hybrid has Lots of Advantages : Great Fuel Economy Great Driving Pleasure Low Polluting Emmissions Afcorse also the Convinince of a Automatic as well

Was a joy to watch.. Although Iam Pro Hybrid, I did love to see the Manual Diesel keeping it together. Hope u guys will do a video on how to increase the efficiency on the Hybrid along with similar real world testing.

Really appreciate guys .....it is a good learning experience

Excellent. Though I personally don’t like diesel, but the honesty and proficiency this video was done is commendable. These are the True automobile experts. Thank you. Thinking of taking hyryder….

Excellent review keep going, you guys rocks

Excellent content .. hats off to Zigwheels .. you guys are overtaking PD !!

Great guys. Love from TN

first time an indian motoring brand has done a good car video. keep it up!

Honda city have fuel tank capacity of 40 litres where as volkswagen virtus has 45 litres. So extra 5 litres would have definitely increased the range by 100 kms.

That was an interesting show !!

Great comparison between Diesel and Petrol hybrid. One question how do the maintenance compare? And the battery needs a replacement on the 8th year?

Great Video. would have loved to see the actual mileage after refueling. added bonus would have been the cost/km figure

I decided to buy creta manual diesel because I drive a lot but wanted to test other cars in the 18lakhs budget. I liked City diesel a lot until I test drive salvia. Slavia was a killer man. Keeping in mind, efficiency matter most for me. I had to choose the diesels so I gave up slavia and gave up city because of some cool features in Creta and being an SUV which makes more sense to for our great Indian roads. Creta manual diesel was an overall package. I recently drove a 400 kms highway trip with an average of 23.6kmpl.

Loved the content... Just wish you had added the Fuel Price too in the test. . Like how cheap/costlier is to run hybrid against diesel. . Its India guys, every detail about money matters!

Cost of ownership is also important. We are not sure how these battery pack replacement cost will be in hybrid cars , because it will definitely need replacement after 6-8 years and all money saved in mileage will be taken out one time from our pockets. Need some more insight on this.

Good Work Guys..... Very thoughtful to make video on the above subject.... Was City Diesel was the winner because it was a manual variant... While the figures were very close of City Hybrid and City Diesel..... Keep it up guys.... Looking forward for more such videos...

Awesome video 🙏🏻

you guys should have done pune to Bangalore road. but loved the diesel even in that bad traffic of Mumbai. fan of diesel, still proves to beat all master of technology.

Huge Diesel fan. Thanks for the info content. Efforts appreciated!!!

Bro...Really impressed ❤️ Subscribed 👍

Lovely video, everyone. Its been a while since Indian journos came up with such fun and relevant content which is unbiased. More please!

Would love to see such comparison between strong hybrid models from various companies.

Biggest correction that needs to be made here is that honda has 40L fuel tank and Virtus has 45L fuel tank. Putting it this way, 15kmpl also adds upto more distance of 75kms for Virtus which doesn't make it a very good fuel efficient car as shown in the video

Such a great video!!

Virtus fuel tank capacity : 45 L While both honda cars : 40L They should have filled in the same number of litres for each car instead of topping them up considering VW has a bigger tank So VW : 16.1 kmpl City Hev : 20.65 kmpl City diesel : 20.75 kmpl

Nice comparison, i am looking for it. appreciated you zig wheel.

Guys, you missed to mention one thing. Each car has different Tank sizes, I supposed VW has largest tank compared to Hondas.. It would be good if you have given that insight as well. But nice video.. Appreciate you guys on doing this.

Now something these guys missed here. To really come to think of it, are we ever going to do this much highway driving in our day to day life? We all have to admit that most of our travel with the City, is going to be in, you guessed it right, “The City”. Be it going to work from Noida, Gurgoan or New Delhi or Bombay itself, the Hybrid makes sense any day. Bumper to Bumper traffic is what we shall encounter everyday and that’s where the Hybrid can do almost 30 Kmpl (yes more than the claimed mileage). And for those random trips you’d take once in a blue moon, a simple gap of 10kms between the diesel and Hybrid will definitely not burn your pocket.

Absolutely loved Honda City Hybrid, Perfect Car for City Drives for daily office commutes in a crazy traffic of peak hours in and relaxing higway drives on Weekends (though highways are also crowded these days).

This is most underrated video ,It's really very good informative video made by zigwheels good job here.

Wow !! Amazing contest!! Love to see three hybrids contest next CITY HYBRID vs TOYOTA HYRYDER vs GRAND VITARA all strong Hybrids. Help us choose easy and better. Do love to here about performance and ride comfort inbetween too. 👍🏻

The mileage achieved on these cars is great.. however I doubt older cars could have achieved this kind of mileage without tall gearing and a turbo engine.. for eg even the 1.3 multijet wouldn't get you this kind of efficiency above 80 since it was never offered with a 6speed gear box. So a diesel without tall ratios would be less efficient than a hybrid.. something to think about while making the purchase decision