I have decided to go ahead with the A Star automatic as our second car, specially for my wife, which firstly prompted me to look at the polo tsi which is an auto box.
Two things that went against the polo tsi, were:
1. price: I was ok with upto 8.5L.
Blr on road would be 10L with heat reducing/resisting transparent glass film.
2. reliability. One thing that I will not compromise with, ever.
So, I am going to stick to my 2 year old Swift VDI (with about 33k on the odo) for all the fun for some time now. I have the same torque figures (actually 175 vis a vis 170 of the polo) starting a little later at 1800-2200 rpm, with loads of reliability. Read reliability in Caps. And Cheaper to run and maintain than any vw or skoda. The ebd, dsg, sports mode etc will have to wait for some time. Atleast for me.