Ford Figo Feature need to see this vehicle’s real power and decided to go for a second long drive. The first long drive was to Nizambad from Hyderabad to attend a marriage and as the road was really very smooth, and any vehicle will have smooth ride and you would never get to know how comfortable is the new ford figo.
Ford Figo Born and raised in India, the model quickly managed to get to the hearts and minds of Indians, without hurting their pockets all that much. The model managed to sell 25,000 vehicles in 100 days and 50,000 in six months. There seems it will be no stopping it.
We are all aware of this unit, the 1396cc inline four Duratorq from the Fiesta, Fusion and Ikon. This third generation common rail diesel engine with drive by wire technology and an aluminium block produces a peak power of 68 bhp@4000 rpm and peak torque of 16.2 kgm@2000 rpm. Jointly developed with PSA Peugeot Citroen, this engine is best known for its refinement and good bottom-end torque. Now manufactured in India, Ford have managed to bring down the cost of the engine and pass it on to the end user, the one who will buy a Figo especially!
In the relatively lighter Figo, the differences are limited to minor changes to the ECU tuning and final gear ratio. That, however doesn't change some things. Because the Figo is built to a cost, there is more clatter that pervades through the cabin. Give the car some poke and it doesn't seem to settle down until you are somewhere in the mid-range and started to move up the gears. There is also some turbo lag to live with, which isn't easy to dismiss off at first but when put back to back with say the Fiat Punto diesel it doesn't feel all that bad. Yet it makes the Swift diesel feel like the best of the lot, although in isolation the Swift diesel too shows some lag.
Ford India has tripled its sales for the last month by registering an increase of 188 per cent when compared with the last year's sales of the same time. Ford India, for February 2011 the American auto giant rolled out 9,293 cars which was only 3,223 cars for the last year in the same time.
