Ford's 3 cylinder 1.0 liter ecoboost Fiesta off to good start

[kimona]

Ford has had large grilles for years!

http://mustangattitude.com/cgi-bin/s...=all&f1=grille

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by marauder

The way they scale it on these cars it looks like a catfish mouth.

Yesterday I was driving on a street where all of the houses on one side of the street are on Lake Conroe and each house has its own dock. One of the houses on that side of the street has a (production, not homemade) Catfish mailbox (so well done, it almost looked real). I chuckled, and thought of this thread. Apparently there are hundreds of thousands of Catfish in Lake Conroe. Perhaps they are what the owner looks for when he takes his boat out to fish, or fishes from his dock.

[Synyster]

Originally Posted by bronsin

Hmm the 1.0 liter is a $3000 option....

Seriously? EcoBoost has always been a $995 option on F-150 and Fusion ... I wonder why it costs so much more on Fiesta. They probably added more standard equipment.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by Synyster

Seriously? EcoBoost has always been a $995 option on F-150 and Fusion ... I wonder why it costs so much more on Fiesta. They probably added more standard equipment.

Yes to get things like ecoboost or a diesel option say, you often have to get one or more "packages" with other things that raise the price.

In 1980 I wanted a diesel VW Rabbit in the worst way. A gas Rabbit was like $5500 and a diesel almost $8000. The diesel option itself was like $750 but you had to get three other packages to get the diesel option.

I wound up with a 1980 Subaru Standard Hatchback for $4600, bottom line. I doubt the VW diesel option would ever have paid for itself.

[Synyster]

I used to own a 2002 Golf 1.9 TDI diesel in Europe, which was also converted to run on bio-diesel. I had two gas tanks, so I could choose which fuel to use.
But anyways, I was averaging close to 45 mpg city. It had a lot of mechanical issues before 200,000 km, but when it came to fuel economy it couldn't be beaten - I would usually get close to 1,200 km in city driving.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by Synyster

I used to own a 2002 Golf 1.9 TDI diesel in Europe, which was also converted to run on bio-diesel. I had two gas tanks, so I could choose which fuel to use.
But anyways, I was averaging close to 45 mpg city. It had a lot of mechanical issues before 200,000 km, but when it came to fuel economy it couldn't be beaten - I would usually get close to 1,200 km in city driving.

Biodiesel sweet! Nothing like fuel for (nearly) free.

But I wonder what the future of economy cars is now that gas is sub $2...

[Synyster]

Actually, this was in Serbia (eastern Europe) where bio-diesel is barely any cheaper than regular diesel. I only drove my Golf on bio-diesel once. My friend, who's a mechanic, said that he doesn't recommend it on newer cars.