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| ![]() GTO: Kudos for the well balanced review. Appreciate your keen observation. The point you apprised us of the well-sculpted steering wheel is noteworthy. Later, I checked with my Palio and noticed that even this has the "tumb rest" near the spokes in the steering wheel, though it is not as contoured as in GP. With regard to fit and finish, the other day I was driving behind a Vista and noticed its rear bumber. I was stunned to see the bottom edge of the bumper; they couldn't make it in a straight line. Out of curiosity, I checked a couple of other cars. Ditto. Compare this with cars like Honda or Fiat and you know what is meant by quality. Is it the result of cost-cutting? When you mentioned the quality of plastics inside GP, I was wondering as to what makes the manufacturers to prune a few hundred rupees on objects that any customer has to see day-in and day-out. |
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How about an example? myself? I think I'm an average Indian Car buyer as described by you & not an entusiast strictly. I never bought a Fiat & did not intend to do it. Saw Linea & ended up buying it. Everyone who mattered were against it. Elders in family, colleagues everybody advised me against it. Some others are still asking why I bought her. I think I do not need to say anymore than this to your point. Do I? | |
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| ![]() Fantastic review dear GTO. One suggestion: Can we have a rough fuel efficiency test as well? Just a normal 'what I got' figure should suffice. |
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Actually Fiat 'enthusiasts' are happy abt Linea/Punto success from the point of view of their love for Fiat. Now they know that Fiat will survive and do well. They cannot be happy from the point of view of the 'enthusiast' in them being taken care of and satiated. | ||
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| ![]() Excellent review GTO. I love the looks, Fiat is on a roll with its new products and they look real juicy! What this car needs is a VGT 1.3L diesel or a 1.9L Diesel, that would make it a real tire shredder ![]() |
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Jazz,& Ritz . It may be right in the case of Ritz Source : Blog Archive Fiat India to launch Grande Punto on 17th June Quote:
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() @GTO do you have pics of 60:40 seats in which seats completely folded. (i.e Flat bed) I have seen the electric wires and metal was exposed in there Last edited by wildon : 21st June 2009 at 17:17. |
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| ![]() Excellent Review GTO, thanks for the detailed pictures & performance analysis. This car deserves to be successful, hope it will be a Volume Generator for FIAT India. One thing i wanted to ask is, has anybody driven the 1.2 Petrol Active Variant, i think it has been given a Stepmotherly treatment ![]() |
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| ![]() Fantastic review. I'll soon head to the showroom for a test drive. I anyway need to replace my M800. |
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2) The Punto has tumble down seats. That means if you remove the seat (or tumble it down) the boot level is same as the floor. Shifting back will not be a problem. However the problem arises when you now drop down the seat. In the original position the folded seat goes in the gap where you place your feet. When it is shifted back, it may foul with the floor when tumbled down. This will be better explained with a diagram. | |
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Infractions: 0/1 (5) | ![]() Great review GTO. Had been to launch party on sat. Attached is one of the random snaps |
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Today I went to a FIAT showroom in Cochin. I compared the Vista and Punto backseats. Vista has definitely more legroom. The thigh support is also about 15 cm more in the Vista in the backseat. The difference I think is because Vista has less boot space. In Punto the boot space has been increased which has resulted in less space at the back seat. I had gone after 5 O'clock so I could not get a test drive. |
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| ![]() Had been to concorde motors showroom, mumbai. Checked out an electric blue emotion punto. Wont waste time talking about the good points of the punto. I agree to them as much as most people do. All that is simply fabulous. Some critical observations though: We compared the seats and legroom of the gp with the vista. The rear legroom of the vista seems to be the same as the gp. However the seat depth of the vista is more than the gp. That explains why the rear seats of the vista seem more comfortable with that additiona bit of thigh support. Similarly the front seats depth of the gp is more than that of the vista, giving more thigh support. Hence the front seats of the gp seem much better than the vista's. We can safely say that the gp is a drivers car and the vista a chauffeur driven one. |
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