Festivas in Venezuela? What's Happening?

[bobstad]

I got really irked riding in a Ford Expedition, a SUV about the size of a battle-ship with electric windows; so as soon as the woman driving dropped me back at my apartment, I pulled off the rear FORD badge, got out a blue MAGIC MARKER and wrote HYUGO where the FORD badge was.

Being a sort of radical leftist and long committed to socialism and communism with plenty of anarchist friends and associates.

Combining Hugo Chavez of Venezuela with the name of the socialist produced formerly Yugoslavian Yugo. My choice for a new Festiva name if they are ever nationalized.

Since then I've been increasingly curious what Venezuelan Festiva production amounts to?

Like how many are produced annually, where they might be marketed, etc?

I've seen photos here at FF.com with a variety of different models; like four-doors, I think a sort of station wagon, and a sedan with a conventional rear trunk.

[sipderdoc]

Well, really, given the political situation in Venezuela is a very special case so to speak (and not to fall into politics) ...

for the year 2006, President Hugo Chavez made a deal with Iranian car company .. among them is the model "Oriole" which is the closest thing to a festiva sedan with trunk..

http://www.historiasdelmotor.com/images/2007/07/venirauto-turpial-1.jpg

http://www.historiasdelmotor.com/images/2007/07/venirauto-turpial-2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Ford_Festiva_%CE%B2_003.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Ford_Festiva_%CE%B2_001.JPG

But I must say that unfortunately did not leave many for sale and not because the car is of poor quality but did not maintain continuity of production, and of course they were selling at a very low price for a new car as we say in Venezuela, three B Bueno Bonito y Barato "Good Nice and Cheap"

that happened to these cars? are very few on the road, and unfortunately most of them have people who work directly with the government ...
ok. the Festy is a car that I think a lot of category risen among many cars, and of course I bring a grain of sand in favor of festys I encouraged three of my co-workers to fields one and have not been disappointed. .

As most of you know my Festy hatch is the model you can see in this link ..

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22182&highlight=turpial

[bobstad]

Where distance is a modest consideration?

Thanks for the information; nice to see the pictures too. I'm convinced the Festiva is the soundest compromise between simplicity, good engineering, quality and appropriate function on the road today and would like to see their production expanded as they continue to be refined incrementally of course.

I'd still like to get more exact production figures and other data however as my conversations tend to be featuring that sort of thing. I guess Chavez will be around for awhile, but with the volatile nature of the political realm he has chosen to devote his life to, that is a pretty hard thing to get odds on.

Thank you very much, and hello to someone so far away. I get chills thinking of what the internet is capable of letting me be in touch so to speak with people so distant; where I've been in correspondence with a woman in Berlin lately too via Facebook.

[sipderdoc]

Thanks for the information; nice to see the pictures too. I'm convinced the Festiva is the soundest compromise between simplicity, good engineering, quality and appropriate function on the road today and would like to see their production expanded as they continue to be refined incrementally of course.

LOL ... more accurate description is that he can give a Festy,

Thank you very much, and hello to someone so far away. I get chills thinking of what the internet is capable of letting me be in touch so to speak with people so distant; where I've been in correspondence with a woman in Berlin lately too via Facebook.

yes, the Internet is amazing.
and believe it or not I got this site looking for parts for my Festy online and never thought to find so wonderful forum ....