Ford Fiesta!

[Raza]

:love:

It is too bad the best looking vehicle ever built has only a rotary engine. I heart the RX8. It's just so damn beautiful. A true work of art. And I splooged.

Best looking vehicle ever?  Really?  Have you seen other cars?  Dino 246?  Lamborghini Miura?  Ferrari 250GT California?

[WookieOnRitalin]

Best looking vehicle ever?  Really?  Have you seen other cars?  Dino 246?  Lamborghini Miura?  Ferrari 250GT California?

I concede. I have no fascination to those particular cars, but for a car under 30k, the RX-8 is just gorgeous, but I should refrain from absolutes.

[SVT666]

Yea that's crazy. You could damn near get 2 recent Focuses for that. These Fiestas don't even have Ecoboost...

Yeah, but have you seen the interior?

[SVT666]

To get a Fiesta loaded to the nuts including leather and moonroof brought the price to $21,849 CDN.  Leather is only $300.  To get a loaded Focus is only $900 more, but the Fiesta is nicer in every way except interior volume.

[MX793]

To get a Fiesta loaded to the nuts including leather and moonroof brought the price to $21,849 CDN.  Leather is only $300.  To get a loaded Focus is only $900 more, but the Fiesta is nicer in every way except interior volume.

Once North America starts getting the new Focus (instead of the rehashed MkI C170 model we've been getting), the price gap between the Fiesta and Focus will likely grow considerably.

[Nethead]

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Ford Fiesta transaction prices higher than current Focus, Civic and Corolla
by Chris Shunk (RSS feed) on Oct 6th 2010 at 11:01 AM

With 3,050 September sales in North America, the Ford Fiesta is just now beginning to move off dealer lots. And while it's far too early to declare The Blue Oval's premium subcompact a success or failure, the folks in Dearborn have to be pleased with one crucial statistic. Car buyers driving off the dealer lot in a new Fiesta are paying a substantial premium over the handsome runt's $13,999 base price.

Bloomberg reports that the average transaction price of a Fiesta is between $3,000 and $4,000 beyond the base MSRP, or more money than customers are paying for the larger (and soon-to-depart) Ford Focus. Given the fact that the Fiesta is newer, fresher, and more heavily marketed than the Focus, we're not all that surprised, but perhaps more shocking is the fact that the Fiesta also has a higher average transaction price than the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic ? both of which are class-above vehicles.

That the Fiesta is selling for premium dollar is no big surprise to Ford, as the automaker decided early on to equip the B-Segment seedling with the same top tech that is typically found in larger, more expensive fare. It helps that Ford has already experienced plenty of Fiesta success in other parts of the world, with 940,000 copies already sold to date. And in those other markets, Ford has achieved strikingly similar model mixes as what is being indicated early on in the States. The top trim Fiesta accounts for 39 percent of U.S. sales, compared to a 42 percent mix in Europe, which accounts for 85 percent of global sales.

Ford is also attracting younger, more affluent customers with an impressive 60 percent buying a Ford product for the first time. We're thinking the early returns are just about everything Dearborn was hoping for save perhaps for total volume, so we'll hold off our praise until we see if Fiesta's overall sales numbers climb now that supply issues have been sorted.