whats your opinion on my test drive and your feedback...

I Went for toyota carola altis test drive In last one month, that to twice. Once i drove carola 1.8G and second time I drove 1.8gl. Both the time the gear was just too hard. When i questioned this to the sales person, first sale's person( oh it was gal) gave me the reason that something is wrong with the test drive vehicle and the second one told me that since the car was driven only 8000 km so that Gear is hard and it will get smooth after 10000 km. Somehow the second sale person's logic to the gear not being smooth dint go very well in my head.. Then the speedomater reading showed me that Toyota 1.8GL was giving an average of 6.8kmpl(during the test drive). that really shocked me, made me think twice if I did the right thing of taking a test drive. We need to wait for deisel or CNG variant, that can be a good choice.. the back seat drive was very confortable.since i have had back injury, I think carolla has the best shock absorbing suspension and good quality seats. My questions are 1) Is the gears of toyota carolla altis so hard,(it was worst than my 9 year old Santro hyundai). 2) Honestly how much is the milleage a toyota Carolla 1.8G or 1.8J or 1.8GL ( all manual transmission) can give in Delhi city and on highway..(both). 3)When is the diesel verion of toyota carolla being launched? 4) When is the CNG version being launced? 5) there is a discount of Rs.30000+ being given on toyotas only for the month of december 2009. Any specific reason for this? or is it because of the deisel and CNG verison being launched very soon? 6) Any other car you guys can recommend in the bracket of Rs.10- 11 Lakhs( daily driving 3 hours/40 kms)sometime driven by chauffer, price of 10.5 lakhs, looking for good comfortable , shock freeride(because of my back problem and bad traffic jams in delhi) Waiting for your feedback guys. thanks r/ashugood looking - yeah but nee dto find morebad gears- just to hard, nd milleage a concern