Back when I was in school a couple of decades back, there was a long hatchback car with 6 circular tail lights in my neighbourhood, and I always was fond of it. I do not know what car it was, but looking back, I guess it was a Fiat in its estate version. When the Ford Fusion came out, its shape reminded me of my first love and when I decided to own a new car a few months back, Fusion was first on the list. I had a Premier Padmini as a family car before and I now have a Santro DX, but the decision on this new car was to do something with the childhood interest.
I then evaluated several (rather all) cars in my budget with lots of help from TBHP and finally settled on Fusion+ Diesel. This multipost thread is to give a shape to the long drawn thought process (I have not put in so much thought on making any decision on career or life so far
) and the ownership review.