People Want Our Festiva

[fastivaca]

We're in North Carolina, and we will definitely keep the car...

Bring it to Festiva Madness, first Saturday in October in Raleigh! Watch the meets and events section for details. We made the trip in 2011 and it was well worth it.

[Bert]

Sell it! I hate to say it but I got out of the festiva game and got a newer VW beetle with a TDI diesel in it. Better mileage, more power, more luxury, holds its value and just overall a funner car to drive. I loved my Festy too but if you can get $5K for it sell that sucker.

I delivered auto parts at one time and if I recall a VW water pump cost about $500 to buy and lots of labour to replace. What else in there is cheap? Probably nothing. Gotta agree with you about fuel economy though.

[blueoval]

I came home to find a note on my door with a name and number asking if I want to sell the festiva. and I thought I was one of the few that would do that

[Larry Hampton]

My daughter has been driving the black Festy to school and has had several offers to buy it.

[milehighbear]

You better check with where you buy your license plates. Colorado took the historical or collector plates away and you can't get them no more and more states are doing it too.

[db2u]

I had a coworker offer me $500 for mine, I told him no way, I had had offers of 3x that. He didnt believe me until I told him to search craigslist for Festiva, Aspire, Geo Metro. Had to explain people will pay decent money for a microcar that isn't trashed because they are getting hard to find. Plus any of those 3 cars look infinitely less goofy than a smart fortwo.

[DriverOne]

^ WIN

[1chrisapple]

well since u said u were going to get It painted anyway id sell it. get another one and have it painted.if they were gonna give u 5k then seriously u could buy 2 and make some real nice cars just my opinion

[avitsefdrof]

Dont sell it, keep it for eternity!

[Paul39]

We got our Festiva GL in 1996 with 34,000 miles on it. We paid $4995 for it. It now has 112,000 miles. Low mileage I know, but for the past 15 years my wife has driven it 3.6 miles round trip to work, and back. The garage we go to for maintenance has been trying to buy it for a few years so they can put it into Lemons racing.

Cheers, Paul S

I hope you give it a longer run once in a while to get everything nice and warm to boil off any acid moisture and dry out the exhaust system. An oil change twice a year is also good.

I don't know of a more reliable, cheap to maintain and operate, cute, fun car.

Paul