Ford Fiesta Ghia (pre 1995)

I passed my test in 1989, and having driven an horrendous & underpowered 1.0L Metro for 6 months, I convinced my mum to part with some readies and buy a new car that both of us could drive. My mum was getting on a bit, so she wanted a small car, and we looked at metro, nova and fiesta - the latter won for her on the basis of it being easy to get into & out of, and had superior road vision from a better driving angle. It won it for me, as I was desperate not to have another dog of a metro, and I didn't like the boxiness of the Nova. So we purchased a silver F-reg mk2 Fiesta 1.4 Ghia. It was brand new, and cost just shy of £7000. Soon after we got it, my mum ...

Last July I reached the age of 17 and immediately wanted to enter the driving scene, I immediately began lessons wiv an instructor. I soon decided that I was going to need to buy a car, I didnt know what to do at first but after some research and asking mates in the business I decided on a Ford Fiesta MKII-MKIII?!! Luckily one of my girl work mates had a boyfriend in the business and he soon began hunting around for a car- only a month after searching he got me a 1.1 MKII Ford Fiesta Ghia, 88,000miles at £595 to me!! At first I wasnt too keen on the colour (it was Gold!) but after some lessons in it, I soon grew very fond of the cars power, speed for a 1.1, ...

I went and did it didn’t I! I went and bought myself a fiesta. Now, as many of you will already know, I already owned a fiesta, and indeed, had the pleasure of owning 2 up until last weekend, so why did I buy another one? Well the fiesta I have recently bought is a MKIII fiesta, which was first introduced to Britain in 1989. We see loads of them around, but there’s one thing that makes mine a bit different from the rest, it is the Ghia version. What this means, is it’s got a sunroof, electric windows, ABS, a 1.4 engine and other groovy little enhancements. It was basically the top of the range fiesta you could buy back then. Mine is a G reg model, bit ...