let me share a lil bit with you guys..

My bro owns a fiesta (almost 3 weeks now). White 1.4HB. Like most of you who has test drive it, it feels awesome! Last saturday and sunday, i have the whole two days testing the car like crazy.

Even with 1.4M, the response are very good. NVH are good. Very good on the cornering, brilliant on the straight line. If you feel like "layan corner" a lot, its simple, change your tyre. My bro use 195/55 R15. Works like magic!

Managed to outrun BMW e46 318i on a straight line (normal road, not highways). 150km/h with revs at 4000. Not too bad. The gears and clutch are very smooth.

Also managed to test drive 1.6S HB. It feels the same, with more power. Response are slightly better from 1.4M. Maybe because of more power. If you are used to drive "crappy" car (protons & perodua), you will not notice the gear change. From my point of view, the response are much better than new 1.5City.

For fuel consumption, theres a trick to it.
1. past weeks, my bro runs the machine on Ron95. Full Tank can run for 500+km
2. i test run on Ron97. Full tank can run for almost 700km

So, you do the math on the costing.

no major issues yet. kereta baru pakai maaaa.

i just want to say RON97 is better. maybe it will cost you the same amount of money with RON95 for fuel consumption, but technically, RON97 is better for your engine.

MAJOR concerning things is door lock. If you are in the car, lock it, and you still can open the doors from inside. That is scary man! hope ford will neutralized it back.

If you are using child lock for back doors, it will be permanen. I means if you unlock the doors, you still cant open the backdoors from inside. you have to open from outside.

We also test lock the car, drive, and then open the front doors while moving. The fiesta system will automatically apply brakes slowly. The car will slowly stop. Not emergency brake.

Really nice system, but lock is supposed to be lock lah kan. How come when lock also can open the door maaaaaaaaaa

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Added on December 29, 2010, 5:49 pmme and my bro drive quite aggressively. I mean when theres a chance to take over, we will take over. When theres a chance to speed, we will put our foot down. We have the same driving style.

And we make sure we test the car "kaw-kaw" because theres a 3 years warranty for parts. mesti boleh cover punya!

This post has been edited by alonggggg: Dec 29 2010, 05:49 PM

is all conti car locks like that? can open from inside eventho you lock it?