My First Car “Ford Figo Diesel”

Decision Making: Was looking for a 5 seater family car. Options were “Swift, Ritz, Fabia, Polo & Figo”. Fabia and Polo are good cars even with the extra money you pay. But was ruled out due to after sales service and maintenance. Ritz was not selected due to less cabin and boot space. So shortlisted with Swift and Figo. Use to drive Swift petrol and was very happy. But as I was looking for diesel variant (due to recent petrol price hike). Considering the waiting period Swift and value for money proposition finalized with Figo.

Home Work: Spoke to couple of my friends who already own Figo. Both diesel and petrol. Found all of them were pretty much satisfied overall with the car. Also got tips from them on how to get discounts and goodies from the dealer. As I’m not good at bargaining :-). Visited 2 showrooms and decided to go with Metro Ford Palace grounds as the sale rep was responsive and prompt in answering all the queries. He also promised to deliver the car in a week’s time on full payment, as they had Sliver EXI variant in stock. They agreed to wave off 3^rd year warranty charges approx 4.5k as corporate discount. Included floor mats, mud slaps, car freshener, cuff plates, sun film as complementary worth 5.8k. Paid for fog lamp, car cover, seat cover and 3M under chassis coating which came to a total of 6 lakhs 6 thousand on road.

Driving Experience: Test drove my friend’s petrol version and also diesel version at Metro ford and found that the petrol version was little under powered. But the diesel version was fun to drive with good pickup, great handling etc. Got the car delivered on 12^th June and have driven ~600 km till date and very much satisfied with the car. Engine is very smooth, at times in traffic in idling you feel as if the engine is not on. Quite cabin, engine noise hardly enters the cabin. Impressive interiors. Great pickup and descent mileage. Did a mileage check from tank full running for about 350+ and filling the tank again and found that in mixed condition with/without AC driving in Bangalore city traffic and drive to Doddaballapur got an average of 16.3 kmpl @ top speed not exceeding 90 km. Did not want to push her hard until she clocked 2000 km.

Things which could have been better: Ground clearance. Found that at full capacity (ie; full tank + 5 passengers) passing a short speed breaker will easily hit the chassis many a times. Other issue is that the pickup drops significantly with AC ruining at fan speed 3 or above. Missing rare power window.

Space, Milage, Engine, Handling etcGround clearence, Rare power window missing