The bonnet doesn't always close first time.
Besides the bonnet thing, the car is fantastic. I traded my 1996 Clio in for it and got the car on Xmas Eve '05 when I was back home in Scotland. Since then I've driven back down to Bournemouth for university and the 450 mile journey was much much more satisfying than the Clio - which must be expected - though I was more impressed because my expectations weren't that high.
I really love my new car and I feel really proud to be driving it, the stereo system is great and has a cool feature known as AVC (auto volume control) where the music volume changes in sync with how you drive the car.
Performance wise, it is pretty quick off the line and is comfortable and reasonably quiet at motorway speed. Gear-changes are effortless and road handling is great (I've had great fun on the country roads back in Scotland over Xmas!!).
Fuel consumption is pretty good, but I've not really been driving it long enough to properly assess how it compares with my Clio.
I've been lent one of these by my insurance company, and I'd like to say "what a load of c**p". Slow, stodgy, poor handling and the best thing on this car is the standard stereo you get with it.
Another update, it's November '06 and I've not long had the car back from the garage (Keith Motors, Christchurch - who gave excellent service) when a linkage broke on the clutch. Luckily it was under guarantee though. Round about town I've noticed fuel consumption is alright, I get about 300miles for my tank which costs about £34 at current prices (try tesco Branksome, Poole - 83.3p ain't bad). The car does manage to stretch that to roughly 380-400 motorway miles however.
Overall though, I'm still very happy with my car and I think the comment made previous to this about how bad a courtesy car it is is entirely down to the fact he's comparing it to what he usually drives because the fiesta's a great little car.
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