There is not much to choose from between these two cars; both of them are pretty competent machines, with advantages and negatives. At best I can say that this is a very honourable draw and on this count alone the Indica V2 seems to have wrapped up the game in its favour. The price advantage of the Indica will be a clincher for many buyers - but that’s not why I said it could walk the talk and see off Fiat’s present Sachin-mania induced sales blitzkrieg. The fact that the Indica V2 has caught up with the Palio in most respects and bested it in terms of engine performance and refinement, fuel efficiency (be it by the scantest of margins) etc, means that Fiat just cannot take the Indian manufactured car as anything but a threat. They talk about Tata Engineering not having done too well with petrol engines. The new Indica V2 redresses this anomaly and will find buyers who saw the practicality and the space benefit proposition of the Indica but were loathe to buy it till it was debugged.

The new Indica V2 is a substantially improved car. Tata Engineering is bringing the Indica closer and closer to perfection. Fiat on its part has a good car in the Palio. It will now need better thought and trim to do what Telco has done on the Indica to fight the battle for the customers’ minds.
Forza Fiat! Attaboy Tata!