one of my neighbors had M2... that green one... body of the car was made out of material so thin that after a smaller scratch on the hood it started to rust in there... (Scratches were made in winter period from stone pieces used with salt for snow cleaning...)
Car chassis of M2 in general looks crappy to me... I don't know how is Swift made but sure looks more tough... If you're from Europe try to buy Japanese Swift (since it's also produced in Hungary and those are stripped of most of the things like ABS, Servo etc...)
Skoda - fabia is okay... (and is bigger than both... somewhere in range of Renault Clio, Ford Fiesta, VW Polo)
If you want small car with small fuel consumption - take the diesel car... Clio (DCI) or Polo (TDI) are good...
Average consumption on Clio is less than 5L on 100km
http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/overvi...=1&powerunit=2
And don't think that diesel is dirty...
These new common rail engines have low CO2 emissions and don't produce "black smoke" out of exhaust..
compared to hybrid prius
http://www.nextgreencar.com/view-car...-Diesel-Manual
http://www.nextgreencar.com/view-car...osuly-Variable