Cars

The class every office quotes by default, and the one you are weighing against an app

A sedan is what comes when nobody has said otherwise, which is also why it is the class an app puts a headline figure against. What we quote names every charge that will appear on the duty slip, before you confirm it, and you have the driver’s name and number the evening before.

Seats: 4
From, per km: ₹12.00

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A chauffeur holding the rear door open at an office tower forecourt as a passenger steps out into the morning sun

What we run in this class

These are the models this class is made up of. What is confirmed in writing is the class, and what arrives is one of these or a similar one, because the allotment is made a day or two before the trip.

Maruti Swift Dzire
Maruti sells a commercial version of it that a private buyer cannot have, so most of the ones on duty were built for this work rather than bought for a family and pressed into it. Parts sit in every town on the GT Road, which is why an operator will put one on a long duty without thinking about it.
Seats
4
Per km
₹12.00
Toyota Etios
The odd one here: Toyota gave it a full sedan’s length instead of shortening it to sit under four metres, and it is the one this trade still asks for by name. It has been out of production for years, so what is still running is what was looked after.
Seats
Up to 4
Per km
From ₹12.00
Honda Amaze
Reads as a private car rather than as a taxi, which is why it turns up on a company gate pass more often than on an airport rank. On a corporate spot hire, where somebody is being met at the gate, that is the thing that gets noticed.
Seats
4
Per km
₹12.00
Hyundai Aura
A great many of the Auras working in this trade run on gas, and on those the cylinder stands upright rather than lying under the floor. Worth knowing on a long day, because a gas car has to stop and fill.
Seats
Up to 4
Per km
From ₹12.00
Tata Tigor
Tata splits the gas cylinder in two and lays both flat under the floor rather than standing one upright. It is the tidier answer to the same fuel question the rest of this class raises.
Seats
Up to 4
Per km
From ₹12.00

Effective 1 August 2026. Models are typical of the class and what arrives is that model or a similar one.

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The size question, answered before you book

The party sits across the back without anybody perched. That covers the run to the terminal, a day out to Delhi or Chandigarh and back, and the car an office sends for a visitor it is meeting off a train.

When to take the class above

A compact MPV adds a real third row with its own belts, so a party of five or six travels in one car instead of two rather than three of you sharing a bench meant for two.

Compact MPV

A gas cylinder in the boot: Much of what runs as a sedan in this trade is on CNG, and on most of them the cylinder stands in the boot instead of lying under the floor. It is true of this class and of nothing above it on the card, which is why the fuel is a note on a sedan and not on a full-size MPV.
Filling takes a stop, and the queue is the real cost: A gas car on a long outstation day has to fill, and the wait at the pump on the highway runs longer than the filling does. If the day is tight, say so at the enquiry and we will tell you before you confirm whether what we can allot is a gas car.

Nothing is added at the drop that was not on the quotation.

The quotation carries the per kilometre rate and the driver allowance for every calendar day the car is held, and the hour of the pick-up changes neither of them. Toll, state permit and parking are passed through at the receipt value, and they are named on the quotation too, with the figure filled in once the receipts come back.

In the figure you are quoted

The per kilometre rate published for the class you booked, applied to the kilometres the trip actually runs once it is past the 250 km minimum. A shorter trip is charged for the minimum.
The driver allowance for every calendar day the car is held, including the day it comes back, whether it moves that day or not.
The same per kilometre rate whatever the hour. A pick-up at four in the morning is charged exactly as one at noon.
GST at the rate applicable to passenger road transport, shown as its own line on the quotation and again on the invoice rather than folded into the fare.

Passed through at the receipt value

Toll and state entry tax, at the receipt value. We do not mark it up.
State permit charges where a route crosses into a state the vehicle needs a permit for.
Parking, where the airport or the hotel charges for it.
Hill charges and green tax where a state levies one.

If a charge is not on the quotation you were sent, it does not appear on the invoice.

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Asked about this class

The ones the office answers on the phone most days. If yours is not here, ring and ask, and you will get the same answer as you would get on this page.

An app has quoted me less for the same model. What is different?

The figure on the app is a starting fare, and the toll, the state tax and the driver allowance arrive after it. Ours names every one of those before you confirm and it is the figure the duty slip is billed from. The other difference is the one you feel at five in the morning: an app puts a driver on your trip minutes before the pick-up, and you have our driver’s name and number the evening before.

We want a drop one way. Are we charged for the car to come back as well?

No. A one-way drop is priced on the kilometres out, and the quotation names the distance it was worked out from before you confirm it. What is charged both ways is a return the same day, where the car and the driver stay with you until you are finished and then bring you home. Under either of them sits the 250 km minimum on the card, so a short leg is billed at the minimum and a longer one at what it runs.

Ours is a short run. Do we still pay for the minimum distance?

Yes, and which way round it works is worth knowing before you set two quotations against each other. The 250 km minimum is a floor under the distance line and it is charged once for the trip rather than once a day, so a sedan held over three days does not turn into three lots of it. Go past the floor and you are charged for what the odometer ran, at the rate published against the sedan you booked, and the floor stops coming into it from there on.

The car is with us from morning until late and covers very little ground. What is that day billed as?

Two lines, and they move for different reasons. The distance line is what the car runs, or the minimum where the running stays under it, at the per kilometre rate on your quotation. The driver allowance is charged for each calendar day the vehicle is held with you, including the day it comes back to us and including a day it does not leave the gate. So a day of waiting at an office costs the allowance and the running, and not a figure that climbs with the hours. Where the duty runs past midnight it has touched two calendar days, and the quotation is drawn that way before you confirm rather than corrected afterwards.