Great car with Great VFM

Just booked my Beauty

Thanks to fiat-tata for treating Indian customers on par with European customers.

1. Engine:
          The MJD engine needs no intro, it is the same engine which does duty in Swift, Dzire, Palio MJD, Vista quadrajet. Now in Linea. The same engine is going to be used in upcoming india cars too like Grand punto, Bravo, new Chevoralet U-VA diesel, new Indigo, SX4(1.9), Ford K-A. Add to the above this engine was awarded 2005 engine of the year. In Linea the engine was very silent unlike in Palio. The dampening works. This may not be a very peppy engine which i felt but better than Fiesta. Initial torque is very good and it is very much in a usable band. The F.E should undoubtedly be good too.

2. Interior:
                     I could not believe if am seeing a car in India or in an European country. Thumbs up to the interiors. Stock ICE is also very good.

Space & Comfort:

              Front legroom is very good. All the seats have very good thigh support. Personally I feel seating position in palio to be the best followed by Linea. Rear seat leg room too is large. I am 6+ and felt driving and rear seat comfort to be very good but after sitting in the gap between my head an top of the car was only 2 inch. I think it should not be any big issue.

3. Ride and Handling:
                    I could not feel any Chennai potholes riding on this car. The handling to is very great. I had some tough time taking an U-Turn. The car is very lengthy and so is the turning radius.

Finally i felt this car is really VFM and booked it after checking with couple of my friends who own Palio. The service is scheduled every 15000 km. My friends did not have any spare parts availability issue with their palio stile. And finally even if don’t trust Fiat because of their past experience, I do have full trust on TATA as they own 50% of Fiat India.