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This is my first post to this forum and I hope you guys can enjoy it. I was originally from China and Ford Festiva was sold as Kia Pride in China by a joint venture that Kia set up with a local mauufactor. It was briefly manufactured from 1999 to 2005 and, fortunately, it became our first family car. My parent purchased one on Jan .08 2003 and it stays with our family till now. It was my mom's daily driver from 2003 to 2007 until she got a new Mazda 6 and now an Evoque. Instead of the 1.3L engine and 4 speed MT that festiva have here, the Kia pride has a 1.4L 75hp engine and a 5-speed manual transmission.
I have strong emotions with this car, not only because it drives me to and off schools from 03 to 07, buy I have also learnt how to drive from this car. the Clutch is very rapid and you have to find the right moment to put the car in gear so that the engine will not cease. Since we only drove it as a daily from 03 to 07, it has very low mileage (64,839 KM, approximately 40,287 miles). I purchased a MK5 gti,as my first car in US because the hot hatch looking and quick response reminds me of my festiva all the time. Now I am considering purchase a festiva here and convert the face to the KIA pride looking. It would be great if some could share with me some inputs here or what should be done in order to achive that.
Below is a group of picture of the kia pride I took last time I went back to China.（jan 2014).Let me know is there anything about this car that you want to know more, thanks!FIL367.jpgFIL373.jpgFIL374.jpgFIL375.jpgFIL381.jpg
This is my first post to this forum and I hope you guys can enjoy it. I was originally from China and Ford Festiva was sold as Kia Pride in China by a joint venture that Kia set up with a local mauufactor. It was briefly manufactured from 1999 to 2005 and, fortunately, it became our first family car. My parent purchased one on Jan .08 2003 and it stays with our family till now. It was my mom's daily driver from 2003 to 2007 until she got a new Mazda 6 and now an Evoque. Instead of the 1.3L engine and 4 speed MT that festiva have here, the Kia pride has a 1.4L 75hp engine and a 5-speed manual transmission.
I have strong emotions with this car, not only because it drives me to and off schools from 03 to 07, buy I have also learnt how to drive from this car. the Clutch is very rapid and you have to find the right moment to put the car in gear so that the engine will not cease. Since we only drove it as a daily from 03 to 07, it has very low mileage (64,839 KM, approximately 40,287 miles). I purchased a MK5 gti,as my first car in US because the hot hatch looking and quick response reminds me of my festiva all the time. Now I am considering purchase a festiva here and convert the face to the KIA pride looking. It would be great if some could share with me some inputs here or what should be done in order to achive that.
Below is a group of picture of the kia pride I took last time I went back to China.（jan 2014).Let me know is there anything about this car that you want to know more, thanks!FIL367.jpgFIL373.jpgFIL374.jpgFIL375.jpgFIL381.jpg
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