Description
Ford recycled the Fiesta's fifth generation and gave it a new life on the Indian market with a modified design and a new name: Figo.
The Indian car market needed an affordable vehicle that could offer enough room for five, air conditioning, and a trustworthy platform that could endure harsh roads and shouldn't cost too much. Meanwhile, Ford already had all the equipment from producing the Fiesta 5 in Europe. The car's development price was already compensated by the high number of sales. Thus, the blue-oval brand moved the assembly lines to India and launched the Figo in 2010.
Even though in Europe, the Fiesta was available as a three and a five-door hatchback, in India offered only the latter version. Moreover, it enhanced the car's front fascia by adding a new set of headlights that resembled those installed on other Ford vehicles and a new bumper with a wider, trapezoidal lower grille. Finally, to finish the aesthetic transformation, it installed new taillights, which followed the same shape as the ones used on the European Fiesta.
The interior was improved with a completely new, curved dashboard, with a small shelf in front of the side passenger, right in front of the airbag cluster. The instrument panel showed an improved design with a big, round, center-mounted speedometer surrounded by a silver trim and the tachometer as a satellite cluster. Unfortunately, there was no water temperature gauge.
Under the hood, Ford offered a choice of two engines: a 1.25-liter gasoline unit and a 1.4-liter turbodiesel. Both were paired with a five-speed manual transmission.
