I was highly impressed by the reports about Ford Fiesta, including the reviews in Mouthshut. I made a detail study and compared Tata Indigo, Honda City and Ford Fiesta. Tata dealer of Thiruvananthapuram - Kulathungal Motors - was very good in marketing, demonstrating the vehicle, taking test drive and explaining each aspects. Their inputs were very fair and had given the pros and cons of their vehicle with no exageration. Honda City was the worst in marketing as they have not cared to even respond to three queries. Kairali Ford of Thiruvananthapuram was below average in marketing. From the inputs collected from all possible sources, I decided to go for Ford Fiesta TDCi purely on the quality of the vehicle.
Kairali Ford promised delivery in a week time and hence made the full payment on the intimation from Kairali Ford that the vehicle has been despatched from factory and is on transit. I lost interest for early withdrawal of fixed Deposit from banks. After the promised date Kairali Ford started giving excuses and on investigation it was found that the vehicle is not ready even at the factory proving that Kairali Ford has cheated for having the full payment at their disposal until the vehicle is delivered
I am adding this after a week after giving my above review. After paying the full amount and after14 days after the promised delivery date, the answer I am getting from Kairali Ford and Ford India, Chennai is that tommorow or day after tommorow the vehicle will reach. Many ’tommorows’ and ’day after tommorows’ have passed and I am cursing the moment I decided to go for Ford. I asked them if this tommorow and day after tommorow have a date. But these giants know very well to cheat people. Let this be a sincere advise to all intending to buy a Ford vehicle.