I took a test drive today morning and i was so impressed that I gave the booking amount for the 1.3L multijet, emotion pack, the top end car, immediately. It is so amazing, that the car is really a great value for money. Airbag, Blue&me, auto climate control, alloys, superb interiors, excellent drive comfort, steering mounted audio controls and that too for 6.7 on the road. I was amazed when the car was going at 20km/hr in the 5th gear without any problem. The car doesn't require frequent gear shift. It offers a great driving comfort. The car offers a good pick up. It is very comfortable to sit inside. The engine is already proven and the showroom guy told me that it requires oil change only 30000km. Tried the blue and me. It is good. No cabin noise. AC is powerful. Music system is really good with the 6 speakers. I had test driven most of the cars in its class, except i20 and Honda Jazz. I was looking only for the diesel cars. Driving is effortless. Cannot compare with any other car in the class I have driven. It is a Linea without boot, as simple as that. I never expected this car to be so awesome.
The best part is that you won't get a car with these features at this price. Automatic climate control, Airbags, Alloy wheels, Blue&Me etc.. It's a car that provides maximum safety in its class. I don't think there are much cars available with the same features and options for the price. I have gone through the Petrol and Diesel Cars and I found out the following:
Petrol: It provides more features than the Honda Jazz, Ford Fusion Plus Petrol and Skoda Fabia Elegance 1.2 MPI for a lesser price. I compared the GrandePunto top version with the top most versions of other cars in its class. Grande Punto is the least priced car with more features. The car that catch up with it is the i20. i20 has more width. But I'm completely not aware of the riding comfort and other features. But I would go for the GrandePunto. The top model GrandePunto comes 5.77 ex-showroom. The price difference between top version Hyundai i20 and the GrandePunto is about 40,000 and i20 has comes with curtain airbags. The i20 that comes with the features of the GrandePunto EmotionPack come at around 10,000 more than the GrandePunto, but i20 has more interior space than the GrandePunto. What I could find is the i20 engine is less powerful than that of the GrandePunto. The GrandePunto 1.4 engine has a power of 90ps@6000. The i20 comes with an 80ps@5200 engine. The Honda Jazz also comes with 90ps@6200 engine. The Skoda Fabia comes with 70ps@5200 engine, which clearly underpowered and that too for that price. The Ford Fusion Petrol plus has better powered engine at 110ps@6500. The GrandePunto is more powerful and costs lesser than the competitors in its class, except the Ford Fusion Petrol Plus for the matter of engine power. But the ForFusion Petrol Plus doesn't have many of the GrandePunto features and is priced almost 1,00,000 above the GrandePunto. The Honda Jazz doesn't have auto climate control, alloys for the top model and you have to shell out more than 2,00,000(On the road) out of your pocket for less features and for the equally powered engine. Don't ask me about the driving comfort. I haven't test driven a Jazz. Skoda Fabia is clearly overpriced like the Jazz. Forget about the Jazz and Fabia. Here is the comparison of top version Fiat GrandePunto with other top version Petrol hatchbacks in its class:
http://www.carwale.com/research/comparecars/carcomparison.aspx?car1=1565&car2=1550&car3=1320&car4=1300Diesel: Punto clearly is the winner here. The top end diesel version comes for 6.11 exshowroom price Delhi. For me in Trivandrum comes at 6.18 lakhs. It's the car that I took the Test Drive. The cars that comes in the class are Ford Fusion Diesel Plus, Skoda Fabia Elegante 1.4 TDi. Here also I'm talking about the top version of these cars which comes fully loaded. For the Ford Fusion you have to give 1,00,000 more and less features.Why go for it??? Skoda Fabia has the features loaded in it, but the price factor comes into play and the interior space is better in GrandePunto as I felt. GrandePunto offers a car with high safety, comfort, convenience and fully loaded at 1,50,000 less than the Fabia. The GrandePunto engine is 76ps@4000 which is bit more than the Ford Fusion Diesel plus which comes at 68ps@4000 and more than the Skoda Fabia TDi engine which comes at about 69sp@4000. You pay less and you get better power. The Engine noice so quiet that you will not hear the noice even at high speed(I didnt drive at extreme high speeds, just talking about 80-100km/hr). The car has an amazing pickup. It's so smooth to Drive. The automatic climate control is too awesome. It cools the cabin quickly. The Getz engine far more powerful than the GrandePunto but it doesnt have any good features. Most of the features are absent in the Getz compared to the GrandePunto. Here is the comparison of top version Fiat GrandePunto with other top version Diesel hatchbacks in its class:
http://www.carwale.com/research/comparecars/compareFeatures.aspx?car1=1569&car2=1299&car3=1321&car4=1273The interior space and the legroom is much lesser than Indica Vista but more than the Swift. Interior space is at par with Getz, Fabia and Fusion and for me it's bit more than the above said cars, except Indica Vista. The comfort and convenience level is simply awesome and the automatic climate control cools fast.
The only thing I was not much satisfied with is the height at the back seat. A six footer might find it difficult while going through the Indian roads The interior finish is really awesome. The reverse lamp is placed at the bottom<
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