The Jalopnik website has a short Festiva write-up today. generally bashing the car but some of the comments from former owners were good rebuttals to the misinformed ignoramuses'
Selling a Kia in ‘90s America wasn’t going to be easy, even if you’re one of the Big Three. Sure, Ford had shown that it more than capable of getting its own mediocre cars off the lot back then, but what about a captive import Kia? That took some emotion.