Can't go wrong with a Ford Fiesta Zetec S 1.6 Petrol?
Discussion
I've got one
Love it. Great handling, and good mpg - especially on a long run. I bought it as a second car to keep the miles off the RB.
It will be going on Saturday, a mate is buying it off me, and he can't wait. I'd love to keep it, as it is a great little runaround, and very fun, but I haven't got room for three cars. Pick up one of these within the next 2 weeks.
Love it. Great handling, and good mpg - especially on a long run. I bought it as a second car to keep the miles off the RB.
It will be going on Saturday, a mate is buying it off me, and he can't wait. I'd love to keep it, as it is a great little runaround, and very fun, but I haven't got room for three cars. Pick up one of these within the next 2 weeks.
RB5Bird said:
I've got one
Love it. Great handling, and good mpg - especially on a long run. I bought it as a second car to keep the miles off the RB.
It will be going on Saturday, a mate is buying it off me, and he can't wait. I'd love to keep it, as it is a great little runaround, and very fun, but I haven't got room for three cars. Pick up one of these within the next 2 weeks.
that looks nice, yeah i think I will get the MK6 Petrol Zetec SLove it. Great handling, and good mpg - especially on a long run. I bought it as a second car to keep the miles off the RB.
It will be going on Saturday, a mate is buying it off me, and he can't wait. I'd love to keep it, as it is a great little runaround, and very fun, but I haven't got room for three cars. Pick up one of these within the next 2 weeks.
Memorise97 said:
Anyone know any modifications the car should have once I buy the MK6 Fiesta Zetec S?
Also the costs of the modifications
At 18, the best modifications are no modifications. All you'll do is make your insurance needlessly more expensive and your car worth less (unless you remove them all and put the car back to standard prior to selling it). Also the costs of the modifications
expensivegarms said:
Plus, the cost of the mods would probably have meant you could have bought and insured an ST in the first place!
^ThisJust add up the cost of any mods you may fancy and you'll probably find that you very quickly come close to the amount you could have just bought and insured the ST anyway. And all you'll have to show for it is a Zetec-S that's worth less than when you started and impossible to sell.
I looked at those fiestas for my 1st car but insurance was far too expensive for me so got a more powerful megane coupe instead. This was bottom end of the market £300 cars on auction at the time, I was 21. I just found I could insure a megane for around half the price of a fiesta zetec S. They're in a high insurance group, 9 I think, a 125bhp 1.8 mk4 astra SRI is the same group.
Back when we were little turds my mate had a mk4 1.6 Fiesta Si and we all thought it was a f
king missile and easily among the fastest things on the road. It never occurred to us at the time that the reason it seemed so much faster than most other cars on the road was because they were listening to the radio and drinking coffee while that poor Fiesta was being thrashed at 10/10ths.
Anyway I digress, they are great cars and after a 1.2 corsa it'll feel like a rocket.
king missile and easily among the fastest things on the road. It never occurred to us at the time that the reason it seemed so much faster than most other cars on the road was because they were listening to the radio and drinking coffee while that poor Fiesta was being thrashed at 10/10ths.Anyway I digress, they are great cars and after a 1.2 corsa it'll feel like a rocket.
dme123 said:
Back when we were little turds my mate had a mk4 1.6 Fiesta Si and we all thought it was a fking missile and easily among the fastest things on the road. It never occurred to us at the time that the reason it seemed so much faster than most other cars on the road was because they were listening to the radio and drinking coffee while that poor Fiesta was being thrashed at 10/10ths.
Anyway I digress, they are great cars and after a 1.2 corsa it'll feel like a rocket.
perfect, cannot waitking missile and easily among the fastest things on the road. It never occurred to us at the time that the reason it seemed so much faster than most other cars on the road was because they were listening to the radio and drinking coffee while that poor Fiesta was being thrashed at 10/10ths.Anyway I digress, they are great cars and after a 1.2 corsa it'll feel like a rocket.
have to say, no offence, but at 18 and the kind of questions you ask, I can only imagine you need to start wondering 'what car looks best parked backwards in a hedge'.
Remember that 6pts in your first 2 years of driving is game over; it's a pita trying to drive anything remotely nippy in this country these days without having speed traps and unmarked cars all over the show.
I mean I panic like crap doing 50 on the motorways these days due to the cameras on the Gantries on the motorway.
Remember that 6pts in your first 2 years of driving is game over; it's a pita trying to drive anything remotely nippy in this country these days without having speed traps and unmarked cars all over the show.
I mean I panic like crap doing 50 on the motorways these days due to the cameras on the Gantries on the motorway.
cj2013 said:
have to say, no offence, but at 18 and the kind of questions you ask, I can only imagine you need to start wondering 'what car looks best parked backwards in a hedge'.
Remember that 6pts in your first 2 years of driving is game over; it's a pita trying to drive anything remotely nippy in this country these days without having speed traps and unmarked cars all over the show.
I mean I panic like crap doing 50 on the motorways these days due to the cameras on the Gantries on the motorway.
Nah, i'm always doing 40 in a 30, cannot deal with going that slow, 40's i do 50, NSL i do over 70 generally depending on if its busyRemember that 6pts in your first 2 years of driving is game over; it's a pita trying to drive anything remotely nippy in this country these days without having speed traps and unmarked cars all over the show.
I mean I panic like crap doing 50 on the motorways these days due to the cameras on the Gantries on the motorway.
Memorise97 said:
Nah, i'm always doing 40 in a 30, cannot deal with going that slow, 40's i do 50, NSL i do over 70 generally depending on if its busy
I meant things like this:
Cameras are set to the speed displayed on the gantry, you see people getting flashed (panicking that it's you, like I had earlier) even though no one seems to be doing much over 50 anyway.
Not really cool to speed in a 30 at all though - that's the one limit you should stick to. Difference between killing a kid and not, if you ever had the misfortune to end up in such a scenario.
Memorise97 said:
cj2013 said:
have to say, no offence, but at 18 and the kind of questions you ask, I can only imagine you need to start wondering 'what car looks best parked backwards in a hedge'.
Remember that 6pts in your first 2 years of driving is game over; it's a pita trying to drive anything remotely nippy in this country these days without having speed traps and unmarked cars all over the show.
I mean I panic like crap doing 50 on the motorways these days due to the cameras on the Gantries on the motorway.
Nah, i'm always doing 40 in a 30, cannot deal with going that slow, 40's i do 50, NSL i do over 70 generally depending on if its busyRemember that 6pts in your first 2 years of driving is game over; it's a pita trying to drive anything remotely nippy in this country these days without having speed traps and unmarked cars all over the show.
I mean I panic like crap doing 50 on the motorways these days due to the cameras on the Gantries on the motorway.
Memorise97 said:
Nah, i'm always doing 40 in a 30, cannot deal with going that slow, 40's i do 50, NSL i do over 70 generally depending on if its busy
You sound like some of the kids I work with13-16?
We try to get them to think about what they say before just blurting out what they think will impress their audience
A bit of growing up required before your extra horsepower (and thus responsibility) arrives?
I am sure there isn't a member on here who hasn't broken a limit, but almost none of us would boast about it
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