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Ford Fiesta U.S.-spec gets caught in Mexican factory

What is reported to be the coming U.S.-spec Ford Fiesta has been photographed during assembly in Mexico, and the minor changes we can glean so far center around the grille. Compared to its European counterpart, the American version gets a much chunkier front end which has pushed the leading edge of the hood back. The Ford emblem is now completely surrounded by the front clip. Below that, the central opening is larger, ringed with chrome, and the bisecting bar on the Euro version has been moved up and fitted with a U.S. license plate ... Read more →

Ford to offer factory-converted LPG Fiesta in Europe Xavier Navarro

2009 Ford Fiesta - Click for high-res image gallery The new Ford Fiesta is now being offered with a factory-installed LPG option in Europe. This is the fourth Ford model that uses this technology ...

Ford Fiesta "agents" get first mission: some decide to go milk a cow Sebastian Blanco

It's time to find out what we're really missing by not getting a free Ford Fiesta for six months: details on the secretive "missions" for the car's "Agents." The 100 drivers in the Fiesta Movement ...

Ford Fiesta first impression: very, very cool Sebastian Blanco

We'll admit, we're a little bummed we didn't win a chance for the six-month Ford Fiesta visiting rights. Sadly, we're even less enthused about our Fiesta-free 2009 now that we've had a chance to read ...

New Ford Fiesta SportVan on sale in UK; diesel gets 56 mpg Sebastian Blanco

Sleeker and smaller than a Transit Connect but also serving as a fuel-saving delivery vehicle that can carry up to 515 kg (1,135 lbs) worth of stuff, the new Ford Fiesta SportVan is now on sale ...

Ford looking for young drivers to bring the Fiesta to America 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Ford is trying to create a viral campaign to spread the word about its new Fiesta small car, and it may want you to be a part of it. If you are a so-called "millennial" (born between 1979 and 1995), you're a prime target for the "Fiesta Movement." Fiestas for the North American market start ...

Chicago 2009: Ford's North American Fiesta Movement starts here 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

What Car?'s Car of the Year, the new Ford Fiesta, was sitting at the Ford booth at the Chicago Auto Show sporting a fresh look. All tricked out to promote the Fiesta Movement, the Fiesta was looking pretty good - and very green. Lime green, that is. The Fiesta Movement is Ford's plan to give ...

Ford Fiesta named car of the year by What Car? 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Desiring a downshift in the size of your car? The editors of the British car buying website What Car? have decided that what you really need is a Ford Fiesta. The small car, specifically the Ford Fiesta 1.25i Zetec model, was named the Car Of The Year by What Car? editors. This version has the ...

Denise McCluggage: Ford's "Mark Fields is a wuss" on diesels 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Denise McCluggage has been writing about the auto industry for a long time. She's known most of the people in the business over the last several decades and she has earned a lot of respect for her opinions. In her latest column in AutoWeek, McCluggage lays into Ford's president of the Americas Mark ...

Autoblog drives the new Ford Fiesta in Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Our Autoblog colleague Noah was in Europe last week to get a preview of one of the new cars we'll be seeing in American Ford showrooms in a little more than a year. The new Fiesta is now on sale in Europe and production is due to start at a soon-to-be-former F-Series truck factory toward the end of ...

Ford starts production of new global Fiesta in Germany 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ford is ready to start making money on small cars, and the production of Job One of the new global Fiesta marks what the company is calling a "new global small-car era for Ford." Having just spent a month in Europe and very much liking the various Kas and other small Fords running around there, ...

Ford's Fields to explain plan for making money on small cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As the U.S. market finally makes the inexorable shift to more rationally-sized cars, Ford's President for the Americas, Mark Fields, will explain how his company plans to make money with smaller cars. Ford will apparently focus on doing what might seem intuitively obvious to some, but has not ...

99 g/km CO2 Fiesta coming "soon" to Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge Soon after the new Ford Fiesta launches in Eurpe in July, a version "with 99 grams per kilometer CO2 will come very quickly," Ford of Europe Chairman Lewis Booth has told Automotive News Europe. This is the EcoNetic version of the Fiesta, which was announced at the Geneva Motor ...

U.S. Ford Fiesta to be well-equipped and profitable from the start 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Traditionally U.S. car buyers have had an aversion to paying more than minimal prices for small cars, essentially preferring to "pay by the pound." That has posed a problem for automakers trying to meet fleet average fuel economy standards. If they can't sell enough smaller cars to pull up their ...

Ford Fiesta hatchback has a good chance of coming to the U.S. 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click the Fiesta for a high-res gallery var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Euro_Fiesta_to_come_to_America'; Last week, Ford announced that their new B-class car that's coming to the U.S. for 2010 would retain the name Fiesta that's currently used for that car in the rest of the world. When ...

Ford's new mini-car may have verve, but don't call it that 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

When Ford unveiled the concept version of their new B-class mini car at the Frankfurt Motor Show it was called the Verve. The production version of this car, which is expected to debut next March at the Geneva Motor Show to replace the current Fiesta, appears set to retain most of the visual verve ...

Embargo leakage: First images of the Ford Fiesta for Frankfurt 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

As Frankfurt is the biggest auto show in the world, it seems only fitting that with only three weeks to go before show time the press embargoes should start breaking. Actual photographs of the new Ford Fiesta concept scanned from a German magazine have now turned up on the interweb showing the ...

Frankfurt Preview: Ford to show concept version of Fiesta replacement 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The new B-Class Ford Fiesta replacement is expected to be shown in concept form next month at the Frankfurt Motor Show, while the production version will bow next March in Geneva. Whether the Fiesta name will remain is still unknown, but the car will definitely share a platform with the latest ...

Frankfurt Motor Show Preview: Ford's new small car that's coming here 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We all know that a new B-class car is coming from Ford for 2009 and that it's going to be sharing a platform with the new Mazda2. It now appears the world will be getting a preview of the new car devoid of the checkerboard pattern at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Ford will be showing a ...

Small cars to be big part of Ford comeback 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the photo for a high-res gallery of the Mazda2 Ford has only sold small B-Class cars in the US market sporadically over the past thirty years. They sold the European Fiesta in the early eighties and the Kia-built Festiva and Aspire in the early nineties. Making money on those cars has ...

Ford testing the Fiesta in Michigan 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ford has acknowledged for some time that they plan to introduce a smaller B-Class car in the US market in the coming years. On the way home from the office the other day I spotted a Fiesta wearing manufacturer plates and a bracket on the back that's typically used for a fifth wheel. The fact that a ...

Ford recalls over 100,000 flex-fuel vehicles 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ouch. The month of August continues to be a bad one for Ford Motor Co. The troubled automaker, which Toyota Motor Corp. surpassed in U.S. sales for the first time in history, also announced a recall of over 1 million trucks, SUVs, and vans to repair wiring issues in the cruise control system. The ...


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