Fiat Grande Punto Multijet 1.3 - delivered!

[shantyrocks]

nice pics dude!
would appreciate a few more including the interiors

[finneyp]

Nice pics & brief review! Keep enjoying....

The color gels with the Shimla weather

[rupinder]

grey punto in the grey and cloudy weather .if u would have clicked black and white would not have noticed that

[sukrit7]

Thanks guys.
@shanty- Shall upload those asap.
I forgot to update you guys on blue & me,Windows 6.1 phones(htc diamond) for some reason do not copy phonebook automatically.
You have to send contacts from phone via bluetooth.

[gautomobile]

wow... your pictures of your punto are really good.

Me too own a grey multijet diesel punto.

[sukrit7]

The car was sent in for it's first 3k servicing day before.
On sunday I called to inquire if I could send her in, she'd clocked 2970 which I thought was reasonably close. I was told 'sorry sir, we can't service before 3k'. Till here it made some sense.
I told them i'd send it in a few days again, 'Sir it can't cross 3k either'.
I was bewildered, having owned quite a few vehicles i'd never been told something like this.

Anyway sent her with the driver, clocked 3090km. Servicing seems ok, car seems as good as it was before. The cleaning was decent but the touch up job was a major dissapointment. From quite a distance I could make out how shoddy the job was.
Driver complained about how thr was barely any space in the lounge for him, the a/c wasn't working nor was the TV.
Besides this i'd complained about the front seats creaking, well the driver one atleast is back to creaking, haven't tried the passenger seat yet.

Also I was charged Rs 150 for oil top up, is this correct ?
I remember reading someone's first service cost as Rs 0.

Interior pictures tomorrow.

[sukrit7]

4pm
The weather was spectacular, mood brilliant and my co-partner even better.
Took the drive from delhi university north campus to gk2.
First 19km, average speed of 38km/hr, windows down and a mileage of...27km/ltr.
The weather had deteriorated so switched the a/c on for the next 6km, overall mileage came down to 22km/ltr with the average speed down to 31km/hr.

All this in city under pretty extreme traffic conditions, I'm proud of owning a fiat!
Achieving this though requires some tremendous amount of patience, never crossed 50km/hr and took my foot off the gas as soon as possible.
Anyway thought I should let you all know.
Sorry for the very few updates, am 2 busy.
Mods please update title to include mileage test.

[sharma_sanjeevi]

That is fantastic mileage dude, Punto is sure making waves in terms of mileage & looks.

[vijaythacker]

sukrit, those are some good mileage figures which many here are getting from their GP's as well.One complain, you havent posted single picture of your interiors, do share that.Happy driving.
I saw similar colour GP with grille changed to black from silver and looked good, if you want to try.