Maruti Eeco

Maruti Eeco comes with 1196cc petrol engine that puts out a power of 74 PS at 6,000 rpm with a torque of 101 Nm at 3,000 rpm and offers a mileage of 20.4 km/kg with the CNG variant and 15.1 km/l with the petrol variant.

Competition Check: Tata Venture is powered by 1405cc diesel engine that is good for 71PS@4500rpm and puts out a torque of 135Nm@2500rpm. It gives a mileage of 15.42 kmpl.

Eeco features square-ish headlamps flanking the horizontally slatted front grille. The lower bumpers do get fog lamp inserts, but there are no lights as standard.

Eeco’s overall design is boxy and one can see that in its bonnet, quarter panels, headlights, taillights, side profile and even on the inside.

Keyless entry is not available in Eeco.

Competition Check: Tata Venture comes with Keyless entry in its top end variant.

Eeco comes with 13-inch steel rims wrapped by 155 R13 tubeless tyres, ground clearance is about 160mm.

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Tata Venture comes with 165 R14 tyres around 14 inch wheels. Though, the ground clearance is same as 160mm.

Eeco is 3675mm long, 1475mm wide, 1800mm tall and the wheelbase is 2350mm.

Competition Check: Tata Venture is 3950mm long, 1565mm wide and 1878mm tall. It has a wheelbase of 2100 mm. Eeco is offered in six colors namely: Blue, Red, Silver, White, Black and Grey.

Eeco comes packed with front ventilated disc brakes and rear drum brakes across all variants.

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Venture comes with same front disc and rear drum brakes.

The taillight cluster of Eeco carries an upright tall structure and is done using a combination of red, orange and clear glass.

The steering wheel of Eeco is just a basic one, while the instrumentation cluster houses only the speedometer and some usual warning lights and a basic display screen to show kilometers run and trip.

Competition Check: Venture gets better interiors with more ergonomic and pleasing setup.

Eeco gets a 5-speed manual transmission across all variants.

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Transmission setup is same in Venture.

There isn’t much in the central console except some storage spaces and an empty slot given to put in the music system. 

There aren't much of the storage spaces in the Eeco except for the glove box and a few on the central portion of dashboard.

Competition Check: Venture gets an array of cubby holes and storage spaces that are way more than that of the Eeco.

Eeco’s front seats are good for reach and recline adjustments only.

As far as space is concerned, Eeco has plenty of headroom and legroom for all five passengers or seven passengers in case of the 7-seater version.

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Venture has decent space which is more or less similar to Eeco.