India, Oct. 27 -- As always, the harbinger of all bad news related to my long-term test cars inevitably has to be my colleague Ishan. I think he has a black tongue and a specialised talent of delivering news that can only turn your perfectly fine day into a ruined one. And true to form, he recently announced in office that my long-term Ertiga had to be returned to the kind folks at Maruti Suzuki soon, and just to rub salt into my wounds, add that I won't have a test car for very long.
Talk about being a curmudgeon.
Well, the one thing that this did make me do is look at all the time I've enjoyed with the Ertiga, and as anyone with a young family would understand, appreciate the practicality the Ertiga offers. It's been my steady steed for...