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23 Civic Type-R / 22 MDX Type-S / 21 Tesla Y LR / 03 Montero Ltd
I'm surprised, to be honest. I'm not a fan, but I thought the newness would still make it an easy re-sell.
I'm glad you said it, not me.
I'd park it next to the high school graduation ceremony and look for emotional dads looking for gifts for grads.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
Can Ford finally deliver a best-in-class small car?
Makes people forget the Pinto and Escort.
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
A Ford Fiesta is a good sized car, the car I currently drive is a compact, any car really much smaller than a subcompact 2010 Ford Fiesta would start getting to be too small to stretch out in, though.
It would be tough going down to a subcompact car size after being in a compact sized car for some time.
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
I, like you prefer smaller cars, (for everyone). Bring back $4.50 gas!
(Dang! I'm gonna get flack for that)
Obviously they didn't make a huge impression on me. :shades:
The current Civic SI has taken a lot of reviewer flack for having the pedals attached to the floor.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
We have an 8 passenger Sienna and on many, many occasions we've taken 2 whole families on road trips to places. The kids have friends to play with and with 26-27 mpg even 2 hybrids would seriously struggle to use so little gas.
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Mazda will bring the Mazda 2 small car to the U.S. market starting late next year, the Japanese automaker said on Thursday.
The Mazda 2--named Demio in Japan--also will be sold in Canada. The car will compete against vehicles such as the Honda Fit, the Nissan Versa and the upcoming Ford Fiesta in the B-car segment. The Mazda 2 and the Fiesta share the same platform.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20090917/CARNEWS/909179990#ixzz0RV6RihKa
This is the cloth from which the fairly promising Fiesta was woven! And judging by history, Mazda's version will be the sportier and better equipped of the two. I was so sad when Mazda NA announced they weren't bringing it here. I wonder what made them change their mind. Subcompact sales haven't picked up THAT much. Maybe with everyone bringing new subcompacts out for the North American market, they were just afraid of being the last ones in the pool.
Or maybe it gets great gas mileage (let's hope so) and they want it for CAFE credits under the new stricter 2016 plan.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
Maybe they decided they could live with the "Mazda 2 small" jokes?
Here's the Inside Line story:
Confirmed: Mazda 2 Is Coming to the States
Subaru has the same problem with the Impreza.
to be honest with you this article highlights why its not all about the numbers and more about feel....because the 'so much better' fiesta BARELY put out better numbers than the fit. ON SUPER AGRESSIVE SUMMER TIRES no less!
where would the fit have been if equipped with the same tires?
Comparison Test: 2009 Ford Fiesta Titanium vs. 2009 Honda Fit Sport
I like that the Fiesta will give us more choices in the subcompact segment: a performance option to the "performance lite" Honda Fit (and the higher-priced "performance premium" Mini).
With a $15K starting price tag now for the Fit (and probably for the Fiesta too when it arrives), there is still plenty of space for the cheapos in the field (Versa, Yaris, Aveo, Accent, Rio) to make money, providing a low-priced commuter car that is frugal with gas.
I heard an ad this weekend on the radio for $8995 Rios from a local dealer.....
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
23 Civic Type-R / 22 MDX Type-S / 21 Tesla Y LR / 03 Montero Ltd
Define dumbed down.
So in Europe, their radio stations go in half-hundreds. For example the radio stations there are 103.15 as opposed to the North American 103.1. Would you like Ford to change that or would you rather it take twice as long to tune so you know you are getting EXACTLY what they have in Europe?
After paying a gazilion dollars to engineers in Europe to design and build a "global vehicle," do you really think our non-bailout taking, mortgaged to the hilt friends in North America have the time/money/people to redesign the car?
I would say the no diesel is about as bad as its going to get with the down dumbing.
They always add weight when they federalize it (longer bumpers, side protection, etc), which slows it down and makes the handling even worse. :-(
They always remove all the nifty features the European model has and give you crank windows and no A/C in the base model, because "Americans won't pay more than $12,995 for a car this small". They probably will this time too. :-(
Dare we hope they know the meaning of their statement when they say they are going to bring the European model here as unmolested as possible? Maybe. I say 50/50 odds, since they seem to have gotten religion of late. But if not, the Mazda2 will be everything the Fiesta failed to be, so it's probably OK.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
Besides deleting the summer tires, for all-seasons, and probably down an inch in diameter at that, we'll also probably see an inch taller suspension with giant wheel gaps highlighted by the smaller rims.
Then the clumsy looking bumpers front and rear.
Plus delete the side markers (if it has 'em, I don't recall).
Voila! Perfect for Hertz.
I hope I'm wrong.
Beginning to sound like a little bundle of fun.
I do, however, hope that they have learnt the lessons of the past, (the only sort, duh), and you folks get the versions we get in EU-land.
We were on vacation last week, around the beautiful English Lakes and my wife, who is not a car buff, made comment on two cars :
o New Fiesta : "That would be quite nice but for the over-heavy sculpting and the hideous green colour".
o Porsche Panamera : "I wonder what the designer's guide dog thinks of this heap?"
I think that's known as unbiased public reaction. At least she noticed them.
Bumpers have to comply with the law, so Ford can't be blamed for that one. Like Juice said, the suspension will likely be raised to meet US minimum bumper height requirements too.
I've seen one of the 'Fiesta movement' cars driving around town, and it looks sharp. Let's hope it translates over here in a few months.
23 Civic Type-R / 22 MDX Type-S / 21 Tesla Y LR / 03 Montero Ltd
But the 2 door coupe version to be released in a year or two is jaw-dropping.
http://media2.paultan.org/image/porsche-928-panamera-large.jpg
At best the sedan looks ... awkward.
Well, it's an artist's impression/CGI but it is better than the current beast. I have a feeling my non-car-nut spouse will still dismiss it as "Stretched 911". It's all academic in this household, anyway. Can't afford one and would almost certainly go the Aston Martin route if I could............and I know my sweetie would support that. Preferably one of the last of the "proper" Vantages with the twin-supercharged V8, of which she has been heard to say; "You can almost see the muscles rippling under those front wings, (fenders ?)".
Sorry to digress, back to the real world.
23 Civic Type-R / 22 MDX Type-S / 21 Tesla Y LR / 03 Montero Ltd
Ford Figo is aimed at the heart of India's car market
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20090923/CARNEWS/909229983
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
On a full charge, carts can cover about 45 miles, more than enough to handle a day's worth of leisure. Just about everything a retiree could need is contained within the 40 square miles of the community. Each neighborhood—or Village—is clustered around a recreational center, golf course, and pool. And it's just a short ride to one of the 12 fishing lakes or 85 horseshoe pits or 115 bocce courts."
Tricked-Out Golf Carts Swarm Florida Communities (Wired)
My wife's aunt just moved out of one of those retirement communities. She felt isolated from anyone except other retirees.
BTW, that lurid green that Ford keep showing the Fiesta in is amazingly popular here; mainly in the retirement sector for some obscure reason.............maybe so's they can spot their car in poor light with failing eyesight (?) Not that I have any room to talk on that front.
Ford UK Specs
scroll to the bottom. look for 'mustang talk'.
click on 'mustang stories & films'
click the 'mustang films' tab
select the one with the picture of the guy with windblown hair (Father's Day)
that and 'Numskull', first one top left are my favorites.
i hope they do the same type of thing for the Fiesta.
The Father's Day one was clever, if a little long. They should edit the length down a bit.
We actually do have a movie reviews thread, somewhere...