Well you could but it was usually to say I'm dumping my Ford to buy a Honda *

*Just shy of ten years ago I passed over buying an Accord to buy a Contour SVT. I don't regret the choice.

 

and 20 years before that, u could say it for the opposite reasoning, i dont see big deal

 

Good point. I guess I'm just excited about Fords progress and the fact that others are finally seeing it. I have been crowing about it now for the last 4 years.

 

Excellent point. I almost bought one of those, too. That was Fords first foray , in recent times, into using a "world platform". Great car. Kind of fell flat with the general public, though. The Focus was the next step, and that was a great car that I did buy 01 zx3.Then they dropped the wagon and hatchback options. Major step backwards, IMO. They seem to be more focused now into building cars that the public will buy, enthusiast and no-enthusiast alike.

 

I can agree that it's good to see some US companies back in the lime light. and good to see some asian competitors faulter

 

The mileage stated in the article (27/33) is on the low side, we have a '09 Fit sport that averages 36 mpg combined which seems to be the norm according to other Fit owners I have talked too. On long highway stretches it easily gets 40 mpg and is roomy and handles very well for a econo. box.

 

I operate TrueDelta. I generally get this information from the manufacturer's list of features. If they say only "USB input," I enter this. But in many such cases this does provide iPod integration. Because of the lack of clear information, I currently assign the same value to a "USB input" and "iPod integration."

Cargo volume can be measured many different ways, especially with a hatch. These numbers cannot reliably be compared from manufacturer or even model to model within the same manufacturer. So I'm a little hesitant to even provide them.

I had a 1996 Ford Contour SE for a number of years. The suspension was even firmer than that in the later SVT, the handling was excellent, and few engines is sub-$20k cars have ever sounded better. A much more solid car than the Mazda Protege5 I bought next. But thanks to an engineering defect the engine lost compression in three cylinders at 66k miles.

 

Great, great site!! Keep up the work.

 

I test drove both.
Fit wins.

Drive both and compare. Different strokes for different folks.

 

When did you drive a US-spec Fiesta that isn't even released yet?