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YES! This is what I have done in a couple of years back, moving the budget from 6 lacs to 10 lacs.
My way of selection:
2. Sedate/city driving with a petrol: CVT
3. Sedate/city driving with a diesel: TC (many options) or CVT (only Amaze)
4. Enthusiastic/highway driving with need for reliability: MT (if can drive) or TC
5. Enthusiastic/highway driving with appetite for risk: DCT
I had rejected the AMTs of Swift and Brezza autos for this exact reason and landed up with a Baleno CVT. A friend has a Celerio AMT (shuddering since a few days at around 21K kms) and if I was on a shoestring budget, maybe would have bought an AMT. But the seamless and predictable experience of CVTs is something I was willing to pay extra (1.04 lacs ex-showroom exact for the CVT Baleno) for as my parents have been users of CVTs in scooters since more than a couple of decades, starting with the Kinetic Honda ZX. From what I have observed, for inexperienced users (either never or seldom driven an automatic), the kickdown (pedal to the medal style in city especially) of all automatics apart from CVTs and the resulting surge does require some amount of anticipation.

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