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Originally Posted by Raneeth Thanks Sheel.
I had got the numbers of the concerned from Ashish. Spoke to the guys at Elite Ford last Saturday. They were supposed to bring the car on last Monday. But no one turned up. It's another thing that I myself was out of town from Wednesday onwards and couldn't follow up. But I don't feel like calling once again. Hope you understand.
Further, I am also thinking about the fact that Ashish mentioned regarding the new engine that's expected. |
We should meet someday buddy.
I had owned a Palio which I not only loved but worshipped, really. Swift came when the Palio was gone. Swift made much more sense, was much more agile, faster, much better inside city and more than adequate on highways. I loved my Swift, but never worshipped it. It didn't lack anything. I liked to drive it over a friend's Honda City and another friend's diesel Vento somehow. But it was no Palio.
Then came the time when I had to say goodbye to the Swift and came home the new Fiesta. It's my first diesel. It doesn't feel slow in city like my Palio did and you don't feel like you are driving a car of it's size. This is a feeling one can underatand only if one drives one in medium traffic. The highway manners are best in class, in fact I found them too close to my friend's 3 series in US. I will go on and say that Fiesta is poor's BMW. This electronic steering is terrific man. I liked it over Linea's and old Fiesta's hydraulic units somehow. Reminds me of my father's Baleno's steering which is not this great but good being an EPS. This way, the Fiesta combines all the pluses of both of these cars and gets no minuses, trust me on this.
Be it the 0 turbo lag nature of the 1.5 TDCi, the best in class chassis or this lovely steering, it is easily the best driver's car even in 2 segments above.
It makes sense for Ford to plonk the 100ps tuned engine in the Fiesta and it is likely to happen but when, nobody knows. And then, Fiesta didn't make good money for the company, so it is possible that Ford just doesn't do anything with the Fiesta for some time now and just focus on two upcoming launches, the CS and the hatch Figo and on the Ecosport too, that continues to milk money for them.
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Originally Posted by Self Driven Call me a million INR fool  and that would suit me - I am a day close to ordering a Titanium in Black (Through my company car lease plan)
The showroom guys are fed up with my persistence on buying a fiesta and not any other ford car(yes I am a ford fan boy)
Hope i will soon join the list of other brave hearts who have invested heavily in driving pleasure
Cheers |
Congrats buddy.
You know what, my close friend is buying a City. I was at Honda showroom yesterday. Checked the car out in person and at 13.50L OTR in Blr, the VX (O) MT petrol is about 1L costlier than my car, and is a petrol, it comes with punny 175mm tires, pathetic looking alloys. The build quality is horrid. The centre, bottom area of front bumper, where you can see the radiator through feels so flimsy to touch that it would break if I kick it. The dashboard plastic, the thin metal on doors, everything felt flimsy and cheap. Another friend's Tata Zest feels better built than this City.
So if you ask me, you are the clever one, buying a car that is cheaper than a flimsy, poorly built City. Stupid are the ones who give away their hard earned money on the name that City earned from 1998 till 2013.
Once again, congrats. Take it out for a highway trip ASAP and you will know why you bought it.
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Originally Posted by coolboy007 Congrats and believe me once i say this, the moment you take your Fiesta out on a highway drive, this fool feeling will be thrown out of your head, this thing corners on rails, sticks like glue on expressways and you get stunning ride quality as well. The Fiesta in black will look stunning and i request you to post tons of pictures.
The only negative is resale value & rear seat space. Ford's support is top notch too. |
I am taking my 3 weeks old baby to Coorg tomorrow. Its a 250+ km trip one side and I know I am going to love each moment driving this beauty.
Resale doesn't really matter. I am investing 1L lesser on my car than a City Petrol owner. In 6 years, this amount doubles uo to 2L. Add the savings I would be doing as its a diesel and the difference becomes 3L easily. Being a diesel, it would fetch much better resale than the 1.5 petrol that used to come in Fiesta earlier or a T-jet Linea. The resale amount could be some 1L lower than the City I am comparing to and I end up saving 2L here. Couple this with the driving pleasure and superior build quality and its a win win for me.