The Yamuna Expressway is a 165-km stretch of pure, pristine, unblemished tarmac that connects Delhi to Agra and is one of India’s best roads to drive on. The fact that it leads to the Buddh International Circuit is an added bonus. I ignored the Circuit this time around, though, for I had bigger fish to fry.
Now, the variant of the Brezza we had comes with a 1.3-litre DDiS 200 turbo-diesel engine that churns out, as the name suggests, 200 Nm of torque and 88.7 bhp (90 hp) and is mated to a five-speed manual transmission. It also had a feature that I was quick to take advantage of: cruise control. I had my phone hooked up to the touchscreen through Android Auto, my music thumping, my blood pumping, and the Brezza just devoured those 165 kilometres as I sat back and enjoyed the ride.
The cruising didn’t end there either, because there’s yet another highway that links Agra and Lucknow which is nearly as good and just as easy to use cruise control on. There was a time that a truck coming down the wrong side gave me a mild panic, but with ABS with EBD on hand, I needn’t have worried at all. The SUV brakes smoothly and evenly without any drama, even when you pound on the brakes hard because there’s a lazy, idiotic trucker barrelling down your lane from the wrong end.
As I moved on from the errant trucker and continued towards my destination, the heavens opened up. Before I could reach forward and dab the controls for the wipers, they came on and started swatting those pesky droplets away. Yeah, the Brezza has rain-sensing wipers and I enjoyed the freedom from monitoring the rain and its varying speeds to the hilt, thank you very much.
