Ask the house which car to send for an ordinary good day in Mumbai and the answer is usually this one. The Hycross is a hybrid, which in this city means something particular: at a signal, in a jam, at a gate while you finish a call, the engine is off and the cabin is silent and cool. The captain seats recline; the floor is flat; the boot takes three large cases with the third row down. It is the car the house sends to the airport, to BKC, to Pune, and for a day by the hour, more often than any other.
Two in the captain seats of the middle row, reclining, with the armrests down; a third on the third row for a short journey. Your sarathi rides in front.
Three large cases and cabin bags with the third row folded; one large case with it up. For four guests with four cases, the Carnival.
The airport in either direction; a day of meetings by the hour; Pune, Lonavala and Alibaug; a visiting parent; a guest who would rather sleep than talk on the way in from a night flight.
The Hycross the house sends is a ZX or ZX(O) hybrid in white, pearl or black, within four years of first registration, on commercial plates, cleaned inside and out the morning of the journey, cooled before you reach it. Water, a charger and an umbrella in the door; a reading light and a laptop tray on request; no fragrance; your music if you want it and silence if you do not. The Innova Invicto, the same car under another badge, is sent on the same terms.
The Hycross is the house’s Premium class. By the hour within Mumbai — two hours at the least, ten kilometres carried in every hour — at a fixed figure to either airport, and as a day beyond the city with tolls and the sarathi’s meals inside it. Every figure is on the rate card and written to you before the car moves. The Innova Crysta, the car before this one, is the Signature class at a lower figure, and the house sends it gladly.
Inside every written figure: the car, your sarathi, fuel, every toll, parking at both ends and GST. Nothing is added on the day, and no meter runs.
Reserve the HycrossWhere, when, for how long. The figure is written first.