Great premium hatchback, gives that exclusive feeling

I finally made it to the Autograph Andheri showroom today for a test drive - they had a Classic Diesel model - and have the following observations. 

• Superb car, feels luxurious inside, very spacious inside and in the boot
• Boot has "high lip" - a design stupidity affecting many cars these days, which makes it difficult placing large suitcases inside and results in feeling of smaller boot space.
  
• We are not a diesel family - so when the car was stationary and at low speeds, you can notice the "put-putting" and slight vibration that goes with diesels.  At higher speeds, this doesnt become noticable
• The diesel engine is superbly responsive and accelerates fantastically - better than you might find even in petrols. 
  
• The petrol engine will be even more peppy and faster - will be a real quiet, performance, luxury hatchback.
  
• Diesel models have special filters which apparantly mean even if you leave the fabia without running for a couple of weeks you wont have trouble, and this also means you dont necessarily need to drive 50 kms/day to get the best returns out of this car - but the diesel is 80k more expensive than the petrol.   I have yet to technically verify this claim.
  
• Inside the car gadgets and cubbyholes are all very good
• Since this was the classic model, we could not adjust the seat height position.   In this model we found that we couldnt see the front lip of the car bonnet - in the ambient and elegance models the car seat height is adjustable, so this would help having a higher sitting position
• Skoda is out of production capacity until its new production line at Aurangabad comes online n March.  So they are only able to produce 21 cars per month according to the dealer.
• The dealer is not even confirming delivery period for the available models immediately, will "get back to you".
• Dealers have bought the early cars themselves, customizing them and selling it for 1-1.5 lacs on top of the ex-showroom prices - off the shelf - and these are being gobbled up by the noveau-rich - we saw 2 being sold today
• Other petrol variants will be available only after March - currently only Elegance model is quoted in Petrol
• Ground clearance issue - the spec says _minimum" ground clearance is 146 mm - and this is in the FRONT, not between the wheels - here the clearance is a more normal 160 mm or so.  The chassis is at normal height, but the way the bonnet and the bumper is designed - results in 'low minimum clearance" - so this is really not an issue. 
  
• If one wants even more clearance, can go for 15 inch alloy wheels, standard is 14 inch.
  

So while overall this is a fantastic car - indias only premium luxury hatchback, you will have delivery problems until March when things will start smoothening out. 
Superb luxury premium hatchback, spaciousAvailability of models