Why so many Cat D Fiestas?

[Huntsman]

Looking on Autotrader at Fiesta's to work out where to price the one I'm about to sell.

There is loads of less than 2 year old Cat D ones, why are so many getting bashed?

[redddraggon]

Type of car that is common to be driven by inexperienced drivers?

[anonymous-user]

I'd say because lots of young people & coffin Dodgers buy them

[Magic919]

Probably young drivers smashing them up.

[Blakewater]

Popular first cars for young and inexperienced drivers. I went to a private school where parents would buy their teenagers brand new cars such as Fiestas and they would promptly go out and wreck them. One guy reversed at speed with his passenger door open and ripped it off on a lamp post. It's easy come, easy go. They don't pay for them so they don't value them.

[rallycross]

It's always been like this high volume sale car loads of them = loads get damaged and loads get repaired the difference now is that auto trader lists all the cat D or C cars at the start of the ads now.

[va1o]

As above really, you'll always get X% of cars written off, its emphasised with these because they are sold in such high volume.

[sim72]

Also common cars for driving schools and hire companies, two more areas where there's probably more than the usual number of shunts.

[velocefica]

Along with the young uns and the beige brigade the Fiesta is a popular motability car for the disabled or not so disabled as is the case quite a lot

They treat them like absolute st. My local car auction has monthly auction of motability car and some cars are a year old with damage on all corners and the bumpers buggered out of shape

[Baz Tench]

Blakewater said:

Popular first cars for young and inexperienced drivers. I went to a private school where parents would buy their teenagers brand new cars such as Fiestas and they would promptly go out and wreck them. One guy reversed at speed with his passenger door open and ripped it off on a lamp post. It's easy come, easy go. They don't pay for them so they don't value them.

Delightful little Timmy Timpson passed his test then....

[Condi]

Baz Tench said:

Blakewater said:

Popular first cars for young and inexperienced drivers. I went to a private school where parents would buy their teenagers brand new cars such as Fiestas and they would promptly go out and wreck them. One guy reversed at speed with his passenger door open and ripped it off on a lamp post. It's easy come, easy go. They don't pay for them so they don't value them.

Delightful little Timmy Timpson passed his test then....

[UK345]

There are currently 4 13 plate onwards Fiesta's in my local scrapyard for breaking. Each one of them is completely crumpled. One of them has been hit by a lorry and has pretty much discinagrated. I like Fiesta's and truely believe that they are the best small hatchbacks on the market. The great thing about it is that rather than forking out for expensive parts you can go to local scrappys and get stuff for a fraction of the cost.

[Little Lofty]

As it's the UK's best ever selling car there are bound to be loads getting crashed, it's just averages I guess.