1992 Ford Fiesta Wave 1.1 1.1

Summary:

High Performance

Faults:

After 3 months after I bought, the main oil bomb, that stop function after 20.000Kms in my hands. After that there was no more things that I can say about it that gone wrong.

General Comments:

Defenetly...the best car I had. Not a fast car, but enougth to sprint to 175 Mks, extremly agile on the corners and a very comfortable car to be with a girlfriend! the end of the Fiesta was against a Tractor. I sincerely miss it...

Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes

Review Date: 13th June, 2004

1994 Ford Fiesta Newport 5 doors 1.1i cat.

Summary:

A nice car!

Faults:

Change exhaust silencer at 17500km:

Premature wear on front tires (Firestone F560) at 20.000km.

No problem in the direction alignment or wrong tires pressure, and so I install two new front tires (Goodyear GT2).

Change exhaust silencers and pipe at 38000km.

Change tires at 50000km and install Yokohama S306.

Change exhaust silencer at 65000km, and check catalyser condition (OK).

The side mirror fixation is too fragile, I don't recommend wash Fiesta '94 in wash stations.

General Comments:

It's a great car!

Very Comfortable, easy to drive, not a race car (140km/h) but is very economic (17 km/liter) in an ordinary utilization.

Requires attentive maintenance, to avoid premature degradation.

Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes

Review Date: 29th December, 2002

2001 Ford Fiesta Techno 1.25 16v

Summary:

The hot hatch of its class

Faults:

There is a rattle from the left speaker.

The right electric window is slow when closing.

General Comments:

The engine is powerful for its class, it has a true 16 valve character. It sometimes surprises bigger cars when overtaking. Fuel consumption can be quite high for a car of this class when pushing the revs.

The suspension is well tuned for stability and corner handling/grip. On the other hand, it is not a very comfortable car.

The cabin is well built, but it is a little dated in design and available space. It is a noisy car above 140km/h.

Stock tyres (in Portugal Continental SportContact 185/55R14) offer a lot of grip and feedback, both in wet and dry. Since they are now out of production, I'd like to know a good substitute.

Front lights have an adequate power.

Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes

Review Date: 19th May, 2002

16th Sep 2005, 04:24

Greetings.

I also own a 2001 Ford Fiesta 1.25 Techno. I agree with the main features you mentioned. I my case, in high revs he is a fuel eating monster (9 liters or more - 2 gallons).

But with time I learned that using lower revs with the adequate use of the accelerator pedal the fuel consumption decreases to a more reasonable 5 or 6 liters (1.2 UK gallons). But there is something strange. In lower revs, the car sometimes, starts to fail and then powers away. Initially, I was scared. Now it is better.

But, although this minor problems, it is a great car. It even surprises more powerful cars. Of course it doesn't has a chance, but it is fun to see others face, with tuned cars, to see a 1.25 liter Fiesta pull off. After 200 meters or so, others pass ahead.