The cars here have two very different body styles that are usually geared to two very different customers – a hatchback and an SUV. But in many ways these particular cars break away from convention. Family hatchbacks are meant to be affordable, especially the petrol ones. But at Rs 7.99 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi), the VW Polo GT costs as much as a midsize saloon. And SUVs are meant to be big, tough and spacious and have 4WD, but the EcoSport Powershift is essentially a slightly raised Fiesta with a wheel on its boot.
But they’re still quite different from one another, so why put them head to head? It’s all down to the spec sheet. They both have petrol engines that produce just over 100bhp, they both have class-first dual-clutch automatic gearboxes, they are priced within Rs 50,000 of one another, and they are both, for all intents and purposes, front-wheel-drive compact cars. So, not so chalk-and-cheese after all then. Let’s get started. Continued..
