Comments on: Ford Fiesta 1.6 Petrol Limited Edition

By: fas

fas — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:45:45 +0000

Kamlesh, spare costs of Ford cars is not that bad as people talk about. The company has made efforts to reduce the cost of ownership with many plans.

By: fas

fas — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:44:39 +0000

Manohar, check with your dealer as Ford keeps coming out with limited edition variants of the Fiesta.

By: Kamlesh

Kamlesh — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:05:49 +0000

My suggestion.
I have been using this car for last 6 months.
Only big negative of this car is average. It hardly gives 8-9 km per litre. IF you feel this is ok, rest all are positive.
Dont know about spare parts but have heard lot of negatives about its cost. Overall I feel Maruti is the best if cost of ownership matters.

By: Manohar

Manohar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:40:35 +0000

I am interested to buy Fiesta Petrol Limited Version. Can anyone tell me if it is still available? I am located in Chennai.

Thanks
Manohar

By: Sachin

Sachin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:52:55 +0000

The Limited edition is still available. Dealer told me that even the spares price has drastically reduced for these cars (except for Endeavour). This is because they have started manufacturing locally like all other players. Only Endeavour spares are still imported and hence still high price for those.
Thus, only the point of Resale value is now valid.
Frankly speaking the resale value price is dependent on the availability and pricing of spares. Thus that equation may also change.

By: kamlesh

kamlesh — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:33:08 +0000

hello sanjeev and Om,
Mileage is almost 9Kmpl of petrol. Overall experience of car is excellent except this mileage part. May be it is too early to conclude as I am yet to do the first service. Mind it – that ford cars do not have resale value and also spare parts are expensive. Though you may spend slightly less as compared to others, I feel if you have extra bucks one can go for Maruti or Honda. My choice was purely because of its initial value on investement as it was quite ok comparatively and I will use this car for atleast another 6-7 years. My first car, I had used for 11 years.
Om, delivery time was close to one month but that was during limited edition which was anyway lot in demand due to its sheer price. If you have really decided on Fiesta, I would recommend you to check on diesel version and it will save you from high petrol cost on regular basis. Flip side is may be Indian government is thinking on de-regulating the fuel price and hence the advantage of diesel may be lost.

By: Om138

Om138 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:12:54 +0000

Hi Kamlesh,
I took a test drive y’day and am willing to buy it.What was the delivery time for you.My dealer is telling me 25-30 days.

By: sanjeev bolakani

sanjeev bolakani — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:27:20 +0000

Dear Kamlesh

I am interseted in buying the Ford Fiesta Limited edition. Can you tell be the mileage for the petrol version. Also your overall experience with car till date

By: fas

fas — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:16:35 +0000

Kamlesh, mileage should be somewhere around 10kmpl once you get the service done.

By: kamlesh

kamlesh — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:58:44 +0000

Thanks Fas. Almost 3 weeks of usage and it is clocking mileage of 8 Kms per litre of petrol with AC on and very few stoppages. Dealer had already told me that average/mileage will improve only after first 2 services.
Overall good package and happy till now. Lets see…