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Ford Fiesta Zetec S |
| Date: |
14/12/00 (956 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Small and high spec, quick and economical
Disadvantages: It's a Ford
Now, I am not a fan of Fords. I never have been. I have always found them basic in the extreme. I have never liked the model shapes, faces or rears. They have never seemed to be able to make a decent executive or sports model and their middle-of-the-range fleet car (Mondeo – known in my trade as the Mundaneo) is unexciting to say the least.
However, my boss has lent me her Fiesta Zetec for a month over Christmas and I have fallen in love with it.
I like small cars. I will only ever own a small car because I don’t do enough miles out of town to warrant anything bigger. So, for the purposes of this review, I am pitching the Fiesta against other small cars I have driver like the Clio, Renault 5, Peugeot 206, Citroen Ax, Vauxhall Corsa, Nissan Micra and Rover 100.
This little Fiesta has a high spec interior as standard. It has a CD player, Aircon, electric windows, remote control central locking, ABS, PAS, sports seats, driver’s airbag, front fog lamps, alloy wheels, alarm and immobiliser.
The interior is a sporty design of blue and grey with a two-tone steering wheel (un-important I know but it looks great!). The boot is fairly large for a little car and there is plenty (if not loads) of room for front and rear passengers’ legs. All the steering wheel stalks are round and chunky and the dash lights up like a Christmas tree at night.
It is very nippy and goes like something brown of a gardening tool. It appears to be economical on petrol for town driving although there is an over-whelming urge to drive much, much further in it.
The thing I particularly love about this car is the remote control central locking. It’s clever. First of all, the sensor is extremely sensitive. You can unlock the car from behind or in front and on either side from a distance of at least 10 paces. When you do unlock it, the interior light is switched on for you automatically. There is a button on
the keypad to unlock the boot. When it is pressed, it does not only unlock the boot, but opens it for you as well (just an inch you understand, but still better than trying to find a button to push down by your knees with hands full of shopping and children).
There is also plenty of storage inside the car as well as in the boot. The glove compartment is roomy and the dash has several little holes to stash away your goodies.
I love this car, I think it’s great. I’m going to miss it horribly when my boss comes back to work and I have to climb back into my Renault 5.
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