Ford Fiesta 1.6 - 2008 CAR

Here’s the primary drive verdict on Ford’s all-new Fiesta, the foremost vital supermini to be launched in 2008. Not solely is that the Fiesta Britain’s best-selling little automotive and also the sporting driver’s alternative, it’s conjointly the backbone of loss-making Ford’s turnaround set up.

By 2010, the Fiesta hatchback are on sale in Asia and North America (as well as Europe), a world strategy which will be rolled out to the next-generation Focus and Mondeo, as Ford battles for profitability. however has the need to please everybody led to a mixed-up mess which will satisfy nobody? scan our initial drive of the one.6-litre petrol Fiesta to search out out.


CAR is in Tuscany, Italy, driving the ecu version of the new hatchback. The Fiesta goes on UK sale in October 2008, priced from £8695 for a three-door Studio model running the bottom 59bhp one.25-litre petrol. we have a tendency to tested a luxurious one.6-litre Titanium spec model, with 5 doors, a replacement four-cylinder Ti-VCT petrol kicking out 118bhp and a lofty £13,195 fee.

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