late night oppo

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 08/15/2020 at 07:40 • Filed to: late night oppo, Ford, fomoco

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Ford Fiesta.

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/15/2020 at 08:17

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If your going to show the North Americans a new Ford Fiesta ST, you need to go for broke and use a pic of a three door ST.

or the U.K. only ST Performance Edition.

Based on a 197bhp, ST3, with limited slip differential, flow formed 18 wheels which are 7Kg lighter and the standard springs have been replaced with adjustable coilovers.

SiennaMan > Svend 08/15/2020 at 08:38

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 This makes me realize, absolutely nobody sells a 3 door anything here anymore.  I suppose the problem is even 25 years ago the take rate wasn't very high. 

Svend > SiennaMan 08/15/2020 at 09:17

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Three door cars are getting rarer here too.

Abarth.

BMW 1 Series.

Citroen C1.

Fiat 500.

Ford Fiesta.

Mini.

Peugeot 108 (rebodied Citroen C1).

and

VW UP!

Even a couple of years ago there was so much more. Now it’s all five door hatchbacks, and estates. 

SiennaMan > Svend 08/15/2020 at 09:59

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Now that you mention it we do get the 500 and the mini here still , but they’re hardly in the same category as the Metro and Escort back in the day, in a lot of ways both are ni che cars, and not because of being 3 door. I think the problem is nobody is able/willing to make a truly cheap car anymore. The Geo(Chevy) Metro sold in the early ‘90s for $5000 and got over 45 mpg city from an NA engine. The closest thing in the US is the Nisssn Versa sedan which bare bones is at least $13k today.  Even adjusting for inflation,  the Versa is several thousand more expensive..

Svend > SiennaMan 08/15/2020 at 10:40

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Ye’, the Mini, 500 and Abarth, are tenuous, as like you say, the Escort was a bodystyle amongst a range of others.

Like the Vauxhall Astra of about a decade and a half ago that came in coupe, cabriolet, hardtop, three door hatch, saloon, five door hatch and estate.

Captain of the Enterprise > Svend 08/15/2020 at 13:11

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Oh man, that orange is so sick!! 

Svend > Captain of the Enterprise 08/15/2020 at 13:30

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U.K. only for that car called, very imaginatively ‘deep orange’, last used on the Ford Focus Heritage Edition.

The Focus, only 50 made (to mark 50 years of the RS) , again, U.K. only.