There is again not much to distinguish the two cars in this department and they are both within spitting distance of each other when it comes to stretching the fuel rupee. However, contrary to what you might think going by previous tests, the Indica delivered the better fuel consumption figures, marginal though they may be. Aspi does all our performance testing and fuel efficiency runs and in his hands the Indica came up with a 9.0kmpl average in the in-town test as against the 8.8kmpl with the Palio. There is hardly a cigarette foil between the two, a situation much the same for the fuel figures on the highway run: 18.9 for the Indica versus 18.5kmpl for the Palio. We drove the cars for something in the region of 700km plus and both cars delivered such figures consistently.

But the Palio does beat the Indica in one aspect and that is in having a larger fuel tank - 47 litres as against the 37-litre tank in the Indica. It does not need a genius to work out that the Palio comes out with a greater operating range making it better suited to going the extra few miles on a tankful.