At 8.4 lakh on road in Bangalore city, Fiesta SXI is too costly! You better buy an Elantra GLS for 9.0.
Dealer was never interested in marketing the car. In fact the guys had no idea of technical details. They did not even know their competition car models correctly. May be he had already exceeded the monthly sales numbers! Or may be it was just a bad day.
It is not that I do not like Ford. I have a Ford Ikon 1.6 ZXI. I find that car 10 times more value for money than Ford Fiesta.
After driving fiesta, I could hardly find anything extra that Fiesta provides and Ikon 1.6 does not provide. Or was Fiesta a way of raising the ASP (Average selling price) of the car? They removed 1.6 Ikon, introduced Fiesta, improved 1.3 Flair a little.
The extra interior controls you find in Fiesta and not in Ikon are way too clumsy, especially those fuel indicators and the audio system. An 8.4 lakh car deserves better real state planning. Compare that with Honda City ZX Vtec @ 9.2 on road Bangalore, or non-V Tec which is almost same as Fiesta.