Thank you 1989rs500 for your kind reply. This clarifies that ford figo, is still better built or at the least on par with i20. One more thing is I come across here in this forum in another thread about anti roll bars being missed in some variants. Now I am being offered 35k discount on diesel, 2015 november-december make ambiente model ford figo. I am really tempted to take this offer as I earlier booked Tata Tiago diesel high end models which is costing 6.80 lak onroad and I am little worried about the reliability of Tata Revotorqe new engine and thinking ford figo diesel would be more value for money at the same price range of 6.80 lak. It would be of immense help to me if some one clarifies weather the anti roll bars are missing in diesel ambiente model as well? Am I getting the fair deal on 2015 dec make ambiente model or should I go for any other models? As my present running kms would be less than 1000km/month. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
If thats the case go with Tiago, the Figo is best at Trend and Titanium variants only,
Titanium variants have anti roll bars, dont know about other variants, thats said in a car like Figo unless we do too much spririted driving there is no need for anti roll bars,
But that said the Figo Trend+ petrol will give a lot more value than diesel Ambient,
So just dont think diesel only
Nowadays petrol engines make lot of sense,
Figo 1.2 duratec gives 10-12 kmpl in hard city traffic
In moderate traffic it gives 13-14 kmpl
In highways it will give 18-22 kmpl
Whereas diesel will give 14-15 kmpl in hard city traffic
16-17 kmpl in moderate traffic and 22-26 kmpl highway
And @eswar can get the Titanium petrol for 6.87 lakhs on road,
As long as petrol prices are under 70 Rs petrol makes a lot of sense,
So I suggest either go for Titanium Figo petrol or Tiago revotorq, dont go for base variants, ABS is a must for a car that has 100 HP which Ambient lacks,
But in Titanium you get everything you will need, like AbS,airbags,rear wipers which are very very useful on super rainy days,etx etx
And in case of Ford models I have observed that Titanium models retain value much better than other variants over long time,
So If I were you I would have picked Figo 1.2 petrol Titanium,
If Tata service is doing fine in your city go with Tiago, its a fantastic car,
Petrols are better for reliability too, petrol cars can run lakhs of kms without much troubles unlike diesels which can get tricky to maintain post 1 lakh kms, NA engines are reliability champs, however we may look at it, so think twice before finalizing on diesel vs petrol.