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"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes) 04/16/2014 at 22:36 • Filed to: None

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I was watching Ballykissangel and saw a familiar car. A Festiva badged as a Mazda 121!

I have no idea why I like these I have this perverse attraction to tiny presumably terrible cars especially soviet cars.

They sold a electric soft top version Europe gets all the cool stuff.

sammon287 > Frank Grimes 04/16/2014 at 22:56

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I learned to drive in an 89 Festiva while I was rebuilding a 79 Fiesta to be my first car. There weren't that many cars still available in 89 with a carburetor. My parents really splurged and got air conditioning in it. The car slowed noticeably when you turned the AC on. There are at least two Festivas in my south east Pa middle class neighborhood right now. I wouldn't mind getting one, but have too many cars already.

zadman > Frank Grimes 04/16/2014 at 23:59

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I do love me some cheap wee hatches.

Frank Grimes > zadman 04/17/2014 at 00:01

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yes! I need this clip in my life.

Frank Grimes > sammon287 04/17/2014 at 00:03

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I gues they offered an auto as well can you imagine merging onto the freeway with a carbed auto festiva! I wonder if you could get one with AC as well and have no hp leftover for moving.

duurtlang > Frank Grimes 04/17/2014 at 05:05

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Do you know what else they sold in Europe? The Mazda 121/Ford Festiva based Kia Pride. There was even a wagon for a little while in the very late 90s! An utter POS though.

Frank Grimes > duurtlang 04/17/2014 at 09:48

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I cant imagine adding weight was a good idea. I do like the kia pride name it is very aspirational and very optimistic to name that car.

duurtlang > Frank Grimes 04/17/2014 at 10:05

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The cheapest trim line in the Netherlands was named the Profit, so the Kia Pride Profit. They did have a sense of humor. As a hatch it was probably the cheapest car on the market back then. Hatch and wagon all had a 64 hp four. The wagon added about 55 kilogram of extra weight, raising the dry (not curb) weight from about 770 kilo to 825. Looking aback it's probably the smallest and lightest wagon sold here in many decades. The GLX version had luxury items like power steering, rear head rests, front power windows and intermittent wipers (all absent in the Profit).

If there ever was a penalty box in the last two decades, this will be it.

Frank Grimes > duurtlang 04/17/2014 at 10:10

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It just gets better! Kia Pride Profit. I would change the emblems to spell prophet it would be so righteous.