How long have you owned your festiva ?

[edudu77]

About 4 months...I finally saw the light after owning gobs of other cars. Sold my '92 SVX to make room for it.

[Festiva_tunner]

About Four Years now

[BigWheel]

My first one '89 L 2 years
My new one '93 GL 3 weeks

[MJD]

1990

My Dad bought his new white 1990 Festiva L Plus in '90. It had been hailed on at the Ford dealer, so he got it brand new for $5,000. Discounted from over $8,000. So..it has some historical dents.........ha ha
My wife now drives it to work, and I do too occassionally. Runs great, very dependable and fun to drive and park. Actually quick and I think 45 mpg !
So, we have had this '90 for 18 years. It has just under 95,000 original miles.
Lately, I have got the bug to preserve these things as an '88 parts car I did get running, and I seem to find others near me with parts still. Nothing crushed yet, but it is happening all over. I feel should save these .........and I do as I can. Hopefully someday other fuel saving cars will be on the scene that we like as well as the Festiva ! YEAH !
Of course, I do look for good solid drivers too, but only end up with junkers to work on right now ! Still fun tho to get them running .......

[rveras]

i´ve own my festiva for only 1 year 3 months

[CityConnection]

Hopefully I'll pick it up tomorrow! 1989 Festiva

[mechanicaldj]

my first Gstiva (RIP) bought in 1992 (1990 L-Plus w/25,000m and for $3000)

my second Gstiva (current) bought in 2000 ( 1990 L-Plus w/ 100,000m for $300)

they are about 300 cars apart according to the VIN numbers

[freshtiva]

^ thats cool ! I think I have one of the last festivas made. The newest festiva so to speak.

[Tim]

I've owned about 10 Festivas off and on since 2004. My first one was an '89 with a carb and 4 speed, and my most recent one is an '89 EFI with an auto...

[juryrigger007]

I've had my steevah' since june, of 2005. Been packing 170+ miles per day on it, and it is simply the best car I have ever had!

Cheers,

Scott

[freshtiva]

Juryrigger007:
There is a festiva meet in St Louis next weekend (18th under the arch). Im trying to get a convoy across I-70. Interested ? There might be 3-4 of us heading in on I-70 so far.

[sam.1956]

1 year 2 months. Best $260 bucks I ever spent!

[Fishtiva]

Three years. I'm the third owner. My sister had it for @ 7years, and she bought it from the company she works for. They purchased it new in '93.

[litesong]

ethanol-free gasoline

Owned my 88 Festiva since sometime in 1990 when it only had 50MILES ON IT. So owned it probably about 18 years. Had other good MPG cars but Festiva was the best. So I most often drove the other cars, leaving Festiva for the $3.50 to $4 per gallon gas. With sparkplug wires & timing belt change now around 80,000 miles, Festiva gives 50+MPG.

Since the above post over 3 years ago, I now have 95,000 miles on Festiva. With the coming of winter-blend gasoline my mpg has dropped as normal. I added a have-tank ethanol-free gas in my '88 Festiva & the mpg went to 47mpg, somewhat higher than a similar trip would have been with the winter-blend. Later, I added another 8 gallons of ethanol-free & Festiva delivered 58mpg!
Maybe the fuel hose clicked off prematurely, my next tank should show if it did. But I'm hoping for some good results from future tanks of ethanol-free.

[IdealSociety]

cant even get ethanol free here in MN. our standard here has 10% ethanol pre-mixed and i think there was legislation to move towards 20% in the future at some point?

thats strange to me to think theres ethanol free fuel elsewhere in the country!

I have had my 1.8L swapped festiva since 04 so im going on 7 years now, nearing 8