Oct 19, 2006 05:53 PM
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Have been driving a Ford Fiesta 1.4 Exi from March 2006 and have done about 11,000 kms. Undoubtedly its a good car, but I have had a very bad experience with a couple of things of which mileage and braking are the most important ones. As the ford ad claims that a 22.43 kmpl, I personally haven't had the good fortune of getting even 50% of that even after 3 full service (i get about 8 to 9 kmpl). I have complained on all the three occassions, but the service manager laughed and said, if you get 10 kmpl you should be lucky. Then I confronted the salesperson whom I repeatedly asked for the correct mileage figures as experienced by other customers, to which he always claimed 14kmpl. My point really is, if the company so claims that it is such a fuel effecient car, it should at least deliver 80% of what it claims, else it is very misleading. The other problem area is braking. It is nowhere as effecient as a Honda City or other Japanese cars that I have driven. Any speeds above 70 kmph, the brakes are hardly effective especially for sudden braking. So even if you choose to buy a Fiesta, please be aware of this fact, that on braking there is delay in the car stopping. Everytime that I have taken the car for service, I have asked them to rectify it but they don't seem to find anything wrong with that. Offlate I have been having problems with the power steering as well, as they are becoming less effective even after the recall of the original power steering.
