ford fiesta

Ford of Europe has started making a version of the Fiesta compact that the company says gets 71 miles per gallon on the forgiving European driving cycle, making the new Fiesta Ford's "most frugal car ever." The car, which is being produced in Germany, is powered by a 1.6-liter diesel engine ...

Ford has unofficially confirmed that a 1.0-liter EcoBoost three-cylinder-engined Fiesta will eventually be available in the U.S. Automotive News (sub. req.) claims this line of deductive reasoning is what led to confirmation: Production of the 1.0-liter engine starts in Europe in the spring ...

Derrick Kuzak, Ford Group Vice President of Global Product Development, has confirmed that the Dearborn automaker will offer turbocharged EcoBoost powertrains in 90 percent of its vehicles here in the United States by 2013. This journey for (nearly) full-line forced-induction started with the ...

Ford wants attendees at the 2011 New York Auto Show to know that it has "Four in the Forties". This means that four of the automaker's vehicles are rated at 40 miles per gallon or better. To reinforce its point, a blue-lit "40" flanks the entrance of Ford's media event in New York City. For ...

Paul Taylor, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), may think that $4.50 gas is the point when consumer interest will shift towards more fuel efficient-rides, but Mark Fields, Ford's president of the ...

Ford says that its six-speed PowerShift automatic transmission, which debuted on the 2010 Fiesta, can slash fuel consumption by nearly 10 percent compared to a traditional four-speed slushbox. The improvement in efficiency, according to Ford, is due to the tranny's weight loss and by maximizing ...

The first-generation Ford Fiesta entered Europe's automotive scene back in 1976. Since then, cumulative Fiesta sales have topped the 14-million mark, making the diminutive car the most successful European-made small vehicle ever sold on the continent, according to Ford. Twenty eight months ago, ...

Mid-January reports from the U.S. Energy Information Association confirm what should be obvious to motorists across the nation; gas prices are on the rise. This rise has put the price of gasoline above the $3 per gallon mark throughout the vast majority of the U.S. and is driving consumers towards ...

Interested in buying a 2011 Ford Fiesta? There's an app for that. Ford has just launched its very first interactive sales brochure by way of an Apple iPad app for the new Fiesta (sorry, iPhone users – you're out of luck ...

One of the long-time knocks against small cars has been that they sacrifice safety for efficiency. However, modern crash simulation and testing technology, as well as material science, is making that ...