Faults:

Well there have been no highly technical faults so far as it is still a new car. But around the lever you pull to release the seat to access the back seats, the trim has ripped away by itself.

General Comments:

The Zetec S is a very sexy car when it is red or black. Everyone says it has a nice shiny grille on the front and this comes as standard. With a punchy 1.6 little 16 valve Zetec engine, it will nip along very happy down the A1.

It has some evil power, and is a little pocket rocket, and I love it very much.

Faults:

Nothing.

General Comments:

My only negative point on this car is the re-sale value or trade in value.

The car has not even reached its 12k service, is only 2 years old, yet has depreciated to 4,100 (trade in price). It is this, and this alone, that prevents me from buying another Ford.

Faults:

Whenever I wash it, the front light get full of water inside. It takes a long time for them to fade away.

The seat support has fallen, but it was quickly fixed in the dealer (5 minutes)

There has been some noise in the windows when I am in a bad quality road.

General Comments:

This news generation is really beautiful and with a superb engine. Although it is a little bit petrol eater, there's always enough power, unlike those 1.0 16V cars that has no power or torch. This Zetec Rocam engine is really a state of art, and the compressor just make it go faster and faster.

The interior does not have old Ford quality. The dashboard is made with a cheap plastic, and you don't feel quite comfortable on it. Original sound speaker is terrible. Seats are quite uncomfortable after long trips. Small leg support and the back support is too straigh.

When it comes about handling, you suddenly don't care about the interior. Just like a VW Golf, you know that the cars won't let you down in curves.

Suspension is sporty and doesn't absorb all the road irregularities.

Faults:

The car has broken down three times in one year with the same fault. The engine drops to tick-over and will not rev up.

General Comments:

Ford show little concern about these problems.

Faults:

Absolutely nothing, but then I have only had it 3 days!

General Comments:

This car is absolutely amazing! I had wanted one since 2000 when they first appeared on an X plate. This car makes my old Peugeot 106 look like a roller skate! My Fiesta is on a 52 plate and is eight months old.

The Fiesta is the second fastest car I have ever driven (beaten only by a Renault 5 GT Turbo, but that was built like a rice crispy)! it even beats my mates Calibra! But its not so much the speed as the handling, from a ex-Peugeot driver I am used to sorted Chassis, but this is in a different league!

The whole car is just so communicative, everything from the steering, throttle response, brakes and gear change, it really is top of the class!

Everytime you jump in you want to go the long way home!!

This is backed up by the interior, my Zetec-S is in Radiant Red so its got the red and black leather steering wheel - Very Nice! The white dials are great, the seats are the best I have ever sat in (from the Puma I think). Things like electric windows, air conditioning, CD Player traction control, ABS, 15" Alloys, fogs, spoiler, subtle, but effective bodykit, Power Steering make this a very very good buy.

The only thing I have changed is the Gear knob, why Ford couldn't have put in the same alloy knob from the Puma in I don't know! A small detail I know and the Puma knob only cost me £20 from a Ford dealer and took 5 minutes to fit so...

STATS

0-60 about 10 seconds

115 top speed

106 lbs ft of Torque.

Anyway, to sum up this is one serious Warm Hatch, buy one!

Be aware though, only take one for a test drive if you can afford it because you will be hooked from the word go, I was!