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Hello All,
I thought I would not have to create this thread as I was mainly glued to 1.3 MJD Punto (76HP) until I delayed buying it and then FIAT came up with 50K increase in price for new Punto 2012 (7.64 lac Emotion pk earlier and now 8.14 lac for the same), which means I have to drop my plan to go for Punto.
Background
I wanted to buy a hatch during Diwali time last year and went for research with following main requirements:
1) OTR cost - within 6 lac to 8 lac max (actually prefer below 7.50 lac)
2) Prefer diesel but could settle for petrol if price difference (between the chosen petrol & chosen diesel) was ~1lac at least and mileage at least 13 kmpl in city.
3) ABS must
4) Prefer alloy wheels
5) Prefer to have front airbags
6) Prefer to hav power windows & central locking
7) Decent boot space (200L+) and able to take occassional 5 ppl.
8) Ground clearance - should have good GC so that not to scrape with 5 ppl and @near 0 speed (I will be careful mostly)
9) Delivery in 2-3 weeks (that is, same month delivery)
Usage
My target yearly usage comes around 15K range which includes 1 long trip (>1000KM) and 4-5 short trips (~600KM).
Cars I considered so far and observations
1) Figo TDCi - Good VFM with TITANIUM had most checkboxes ticked, concerned about some issues with scraping with 5 ppl, no 60:40, no power window for rear, no alloy wheels, cramped rear (compared to Punto)
2) Punto 76HP MJD - Liked and Emotion Pk (stretched budget beyond 7.50 lac) looked suitable, main concern was GC with nose
3) Ritz VDI - Maruti! Compromise on features, alloy, boot. Could even go fo ZXi as price comes to 6 lacs. But, just checked, they are saying 45 days for ZXi as well as VDi ABS.
4) i20 CRDi - Didn't TD, Asta out of budget, Magna does not have ABS (some say it has but Hyundai site doesn't). Concerned about if overall build is as good internally as it looks. Also no concrete information about real mileage people are getting.
5) Polo - Less on features. Checked 1.2 petrol, was coming to 7.23 lacs for top end, didnn't check diesel as though it would cross my budget and may not meet all my requirements. Also, felt the rear seat had similar issue as Figo (perhaps central hump is the issue).
After lot of thought, I zeroed on Punto but hit some roadblocks due to combination of some bad luck as well as my own doing and decided to wait for JAN 2012. Now that it seems FIAT has addressed the main concern I had with Punto (GC), it also has crossed my budget which was already stretched beyond 7.50 just to accommodate Punto - I was OK with 20K increase (that is, 7.85 lac for top end) but they have chopped off discounts so it is going to 8.14 lacs and thus I have to now rethink!
Can you all please help me deciding the car and also consider my observations mentioned overall as well as per car basis to provide your inputs?
Thanks.
Hemant
I thought I would not have to create this thread as I was mainly glued to 1.3 MJD Punto (76HP) until I delayed buying it and then FIAT came up with 50K increase in price for new Punto 2012 (7.64 lac Emotion pk earlier and now 8.14 lac for the same), which means I have to drop my plan to go for Punto.
Background
I wanted to buy a hatch during Diwali time last year and went for research with following main requirements:
1) OTR cost - within 6 lac to 8 lac max (actually prefer below 7.50 lac)
2) Prefer diesel but could settle for petrol if price difference (between the chosen petrol & chosen diesel) was ~1lac at least and mileage at least 13 kmpl in city.
3) ABS must
4) Prefer alloy wheels
5) Prefer to have front airbags
6) Prefer to hav power windows & central locking
7) Decent boot space (200L+) and able to take occassional 5 ppl.
8) Ground clearance - should have good GC so that not to scrape with 5 ppl and @near 0 speed (I will be careful mostly)
9) Delivery in 2-3 weeks (that is, same month delivery)
Usage
My target yearly usage comes around 15K range which includes 1 long trip (>1000KM) and 4-5 short trips (~600KM).
Cars I considered so far and observations
1) Figo TDCi - Good VFM with TITANIUM had most checkboxes ticked, concerned about some issues with scraping with 5 ppl, no 60:40, no power window for rear, no alloy wheels, cramped rear (compared to Punto)
2) Punto 76HP MJD - Liked and Emotion Pk (stretched budget beyond 7.50 lac) looked suitable, main concern was GC with nose
3) Ritz VDI - Maruti! Compromise on features, alloy, boot. Could even go fo ZXi as price comes to 6 lacs. But, just checked, they are saying 45 days for ZXi as well as VDi ABS.
4) i20 CRDi - Didn't TD, Asta out of budget, Magna does not have ABS (some say it has but Hyundai site doesn't). Concerned about if overall build is as good internally as it looks. Also no concrete information about real mileage people are getting.
5) Polo - Less on features. Checked 1.2 petrol, was coming to 7.23 lacs for top end, didnn't check diesel as though it would cross my budget and may not meet all my requirements. Also, felt the rear seat had similar issue as Figo (perhaps central hump is the issue).
After lot of thought, I zeroed on Punto but hit some roadblocks due to combination of some bad luck as well as my own doing and decided to wait for JAN 2012. Now that it seems FIAT has addressed the main concern I had with Punto (GC), it also has crossed my budget which was already stretched beyond 7.50 just to accommodate Punto - I was OK with 20K increase (that is, 7.85 lac for top end) but they have chopped off discounts so it is going to 8.14 lacs and thus I have to now rethink!
Can you all please help me deciding the car and also consider my observations mentioned overall as well as per car basis to provide your inputs?
Thanks.
Hemant
