"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
07/20/2020 at 18:40 • Filed to: Ford Fiesta, DCT, Seven
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
07/20/2020 at 18:40 • Filed to: Ford Fiesta, DCT, Seven | 0
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This is a Mk8 Fiesta. In fact it’s the one I was driving for a couple of weeks earlier this year.
It belongs to Mr Hertz and is poverty spec with an 1100cc, 75 bhp NA engine and five DIY gears. Also, steelies and plastic hubcaps.
However, not all Fiestas are like that. The previous model was sold with a six speed DCT as an option and which gathered an evil reputation for itself in automatic loving markets. This part of the world, not so much as nearly all Fiestas here are manual.
The Focus also had a DCT (in fact two different ones depending on the market) and developed the same reputation so the current Mk4 has an eight speed torque converter automatic as an expensive option on some models. You’d expect the Fiesta to go the same way, wouldn’t you?
Not a bit of it. Ford have replaced the six speed DCT by a seven speed DCT.
Jb boin
> Cé hé sin
07/20/2020 at 19:09 |
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The Fiesta MK8 (which is the 7th generation...) is based on the B3 platform while the Focus MK4 is based on the C2 platform , they seem to be using mostly different engines.
dogisbadob
> Cé hé sin
07/20/2020 at 20:06 |
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I thought the Fiesta also had a real automatic now. They did this just as they left the US market. Fuck them.
And the previously manual-only
ST models are now available with an automatic now that they’re no
longer sold where automatics are most popular.
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> Cé hé sin
07/20/2020 at 21:20 |
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No one I know with a Fiesta takes it all that seriously. All of them are DCTs too so it is hard to form to o much of an attachment. Shame, since they could have been a great little runabout. It makes sense for Fo rd to stop bringing the here because their name is mud.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Cé hé sin
07/21/2020 at 04:01 |
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tell Ford to stick the DCT up their collective rectum
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Cé hé sin
> pip bip - choose Corrour
07/21/2020 at 06:52 |
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I’ve driven, although only for a week, a Focus with the DCT.
It was fine.
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Cé hé sin
> Jb boin
07/21/2020 at 07:48 |
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Pas chez nous! Most Fiestas and Focuses have the 1.0 triple petrol and 1.5 four diesel, although with different power outputs. Fiesta buyers tend to prefer the less powerful (and cheaper) versions.
The Fiesta I drove had the 1.1 engine which however is not found on the Focus.