The New Festy 2010??

[BigWheel]

I've been reading bits and pieces about the "new Festiva" that will hit the US market in 2010. That said every piece has some hint that Ford is trying to decide whether to call it the Festiva or the Fiesta. I know I'm only getting a piece of the puzzle. What's the scoop you're hearing:?:

[freshtiva]

I hear its the Fiesta and will be made in Mexico. I think they are building them in Germany also.

[freshtiva]

Here are a couple of links

http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=28860

pictures

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-ford-fiesta-zetec-s/914219/

[BigWheel]

What's the connection between the Festiva and the Fiesta? The history of the two cars is quite different (or least I think they are). I've seen the two names interchanged in a couple of articles?

[freshtiva]

A lot of people get the names mixed up.

[CHills]

Sign me up, I just got an 08 Focus Coupe, but I would gladly trade it for one of those.

[deathegg]

Lots of people call my car a Fiesta, not a Festiva, so yeah, people mix up the names.

Some people remember the Fiesta from when they imported them way back when, and I think that some people think they stopped building them, which is of course not so; they just stopped bringing them here.
Even the previous gen (before this new version) was pretty cool.

[stefan]

Who cares... the only thing they woiuld have in common would be the name

[deathegg]

your point being......?

[solatare]

i dont want to see another car with the festiva name on it, id ruin the cars image in the same way the new mini wrecked the image of the old mini.

new mini can be had stock with 18 inch wheels and weighes nearly 2700 pounds, to me its your average compact hatch but with no overhangs

original mini could fit inside the new mini and weighed around 1400 pounds, i think, anything bigger than a 12 inch wheel would require a sawsall to be fit, and with a tuned 1300cc cooper motor and decent tires itll outrun anything

if they made a new festiva id be the same deal, i dont want it.

[Pocket_Rocket]

What's the connection between the Festiva and the Fiesta? The history of the two cars is quite different (or least I think they are). I've seen the two names interchanged in a couple of articles?

From what I know, it started with the Fiesta, which was sold also in Europe. Then we got the successor of the Fiesta, the Festiva, which was sold as the Mazda 121 and Kia Pride to our eastern friends while the Fiesta was still produced, on a different platform. I think that what we'll be having here is the newest generation of Fiestas, which has nothing to do with the Festiva anymore. But I used to work with an Alzatian once (from what I understand, it's on the border of France and Germany) and he told me he used to have a 2000-something Fiesta 16-valve, and kept telling me how it used to kick @$$, so if the new Fiesta is half as good as he convinced me they are, they should be really nice cars...

[freshtiva]

Another small ford we wont get

http://jalopnik.com/399615/2009-ford-ka-again-peeks-out-from-under-embargo-blanket

specs

http://www.ford.co.uk/ie/ka/-/ka_specs/-/-/-/-#

[REDNECK1]

i want those rim's,......i hear they are 14'.....I was sent a e-mail from a friend in croasia,....he's got alot of buzz over their about it .............

[rancheeto]

lol it looks funny... but id drive it.
i also want those rims, i wonder what lug pattern they are.

[REDNECK1]

the one and the same! (aspire) that is,....from what i'm told