According to AutoCar, Ford has said that its high-performance Fiesta, known as the Fiesta ST, has been delayed and may never even make it to production. The 200-hp Ford Fiesta ST was expected to join the Fiesta hatchback lineup later this year but ford has put a hold on the project due to it current [...]
FoMoCo is reminding us once again today that it has selected 100 lucky individuals for the chance to receive a 2010 Ford Fiesta for 6-months. All 100 individuals are said to be tech-savvy and will use various social-media such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and MySpace (yes that boring social-network) to blog and share their experiences [...]
Ford of Europe reported an increase in its market share in January by 0.5 percent to 9.3 percent – the highest January share since 2004. The new 2010 Fiesta was the best-selling Ford car in January in the main 19 European markets. Ford of Europe said it sold a total of 98,300 vehicles in the first month of 2009. The Fiesta [...]
Ford announced today that it will introduce the dual-clutch PowerShift 6-speed seen on the Lincoln C Concept in its 2010 small-cars. Weighing in less than 30 pounds than the 4-speed automatic currently seen on the Focus, the PowerShift 6-speed automatic will deliver the fuel-efficiency of a manual gearbox. Ford currently offers a PowerShift transmission on the [...]
Ford is hoping the Fiesta will win fuel-economy conscious consumers over when it is launched in the U.S. in 2010. To help gain some traction for Ford’s latest global compact car, Ford will be handing out 100 Fiesta’s to 100 tech-savvy enthusiasts under a new program called “Fiesta Movement.” Ford will ask the 100 lucky [...]
FoMoCo announced yesterday that while its European sales fell 21.4 percent, the new Ford Fiesta helped it outperform the overall industry. The Fiesta sold more than 42,000 units in the 19 most important markets in the two months since its launch. “The Fiesta is already our second best-selling model behind the Focus,” Ingvar Sviggum, vice [...]
The hit television series Top Gear receives a lot of fan mail on a daily basis but one in particular caught their attention this time around. The letter read “Why do you not test cars properly anymore - or have you forgotten how?” Well, with a brand new Ford Fiesta in their hands, Clarkson decided to [...]
While Jeremy Clarkson is busy driving the Ford Fiesta of a military landing aircraft, FoMoCo is busy promoting the compact cars U.S. launch. Even though we may be a little more than a year away from seeing the Fiesta on our roads, Ford feels that it should start marketing the car as soon as possible [...]
According to Ford CEO Alan Mulally, fuel-prices are going to stay relatively high, even though they’re low right now. With that in mind FoMoCo is not letting go of the idea of bringing its small-car onslaught to the U.S. “The most important thing we can do is have a full complement of small and medium-sized [...]
