RE: Ford Fiesta 1.4 Ghia | Shed of the Week
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J4CKO said:
Suppose it is at least quite tidy, just not sure what anyone's reason for buying it would be as plenty of better options, maybe some Festival of the Unexceptional enthusiast ?
Classic Ford scene in the UK is very strong. Mk5 Escorts/Orions, Mk3 Fiestas, "Sperm Whale" Scorpios - regardless of whether the car was considered crap when new, people still buy them, polish them, and take them to Ford shows.And yes there's the FotU eligibility as well.
Tintin1962 said:
mrpenks said:
CVH stands for compound valve (angle) hemispherical combustion chamber…
I’m a nerd.
I also own and run a CVH in XR3i flavour.
I also am a nerd and was just going to post the same thing. In the day, I found the CVH enines far duperoor and revvier than their predecessors in the earlier Fiestas and Escorts. Very fond memories of hooning a CVH engined XR2i up the west coast of Scotland bound for Mull.I’m a nerd.
I also own and run a CVH in XR3i flavour.
9k rpm said:
I had a G reg 1.1 Ghia as my first car in 1997. Lovely little thing (to me anyway) but frightfully slow.
Is it sad that I know that this is wearing XR2i alloys…..
One of my mates had an XR2i and they always get slated, but I did quite enjoy driving it to be honest. I am a blinkered Ford fanboy in fairness though! Is it sad that I know that this is wearing XR2i alloys…..
9k rpm said:
I had a G reg 1.1 Ghia as my first car in 1997. Lovely little thing (to me anyway) but frightfully slow.
Is it sad that I know that this is wearing XR2i alloys…..
Nerd mode again. The XR2i didn’t come with alloys as standard! These wheels were options, also offered on the Ghia.Is it sad that I know that this is wearing XR2i alloys…..
The badges are the wrong way around left to right on this one too!
Edited by mrpenks on Friday 26th November 10:52
cerb4.5lee said:
9k rpm said:
I had a G reg 1.1 Ghia as my first car in 1997. Lovely little thing (to me anyway) but frightfully slow.
Is it sad that I know that this is wearing XR2i alloys…..
One of my mates had an XR2i and they always get slated, but I did quite enjoy driving it to be honest. I am a blinkered Ford fanboy in fairness though! Is it sad that I know that this is wearing XR2i alloys…..
My 1st Company car was a red J reg 1.1L Fiesta. I did 98,000 miles in 16 months in it. Never missed a beat, totally reliable just got sweeter and faster as the mileage increased. Once did Newcastle to Dover and back in a day with no real effort. As a small car of it's time it was excellent much like the current model.
Those mocking it don't have a clue.
Those mocking it don't have a clue.
I it time to up the minimum to £2k ?
The last couple of SOTW have been definite future Festival of the Unexceptional contenders.
This one is blander than a bland thing from Blandsville.
Losing interest in SOTW now as I am sure are many others if you can't find anything interesting for <£1500 then there is only one way to go.
The last couple of SOTW have been definite future Festival of the Unexceptional contenders.
This one is blander than a bland thing from Blandsville.
Losing interest in SOTW now as I am sure are many others if you can't find anything interesting for <£1500 then there is only one way to go.
did you live in it?Warpspeed1 said:
My 1st Company car was a red J reg 1.1L Fiesta. I did 98,000 miles in 16 months in it. Never missed a beat, totally reliable just got sweeter and faster as the mileage increased. Once did Newcastle to Dover and back in a day with no real effort. As a small car of it's time it was excellent much like the current model.
Those mocking it don't have a clue.
Those mocking it don't have a clue.
Any brand new car would do that sort of journey. We are talking how badly it's aged, and how crap it is now, not 30 years ago. In 1991 you could buy a new Maestro. Doesn't mean it was a fantastic car.
OpulentBob said:
Warpspeed1 said:
My 1st Company car was a red J reg 1.1L Fiesta. I did 98,000 miles in 16 months in it. Never missed a beat, totally reliable just got sweeter and faster as the mileage increased. Once did Newcastle to Dover and back in a day with no real effort. As a small car of it's time it was excellent much like the current model.
Those mocking it don't have a clue.
Those mocking it don't have a clue.
Any brand new car would do that sort of journey. We are talking how badly it's aged, and how crap it is now, not 30 years ago. In 1991 you could buy a new Maestro. Doesn't mean it was a fantastic car.
It's not a big deal to expect a new small car to do that kind of mileage in 2021, but things were different 30 years ago. I passed my driving test in 1994 and my early driving years were spent in late 80s and early 90s small cars. A 1.1L Fiesta would have had around 50bhp back then, with no ABS, no airbag, and just a crappy little 2-speaker radio/cassette. I think this was still the era of 1 year warranties on new cars as well (the Japanese manufacturers were the first to offer this).
Doing that kind of annual mileage in a small car in 1991 was no mean feat.
6000+ miles a month 
I'm not overly familiar with Fords & the joys of the CVH engine but reading this thread has made me wonder if I had first hand experience of it many years ago...
Circa 1994 and in my first 'proper' job after A levels as an office junior in a marketing dept. As the position implied, I was called on to run errands which 9/10 meant borrowing one a car from one of the managers - anything from a nice chunky Audi estate to a Mazda Xedos 6 (which I remember being utterly silent at tickover). If these weren't available there was the company pool car, a 4th gen Escort estate on an H plate if I remember correctly.
This rattly diesel disaster was shown no sympathy and was as grim as you can imagine it to be. Noisy, smelly, uncomfortable, rough, unrefined - all the usual tropes.
One day I was asked to go and pick something up from the town and on the way, fill up the pool car. I pulled into the nearby Shell station which is where the company had an account and promptly brimmed the thing with diesel. Set off and within a few hundred yards I was leaving plumes of white smoke behind me. I ended up stranded at the side of the road about a mile from the office wondering what had gone wrong.
It transpires what everybody in my dept thought was a rattly diesel Escort was in fact a petrol engined one. It sounded that bad.
If that was a CVH engine (albeit unloved) then I can totally understand the hatred.
Circa 1994 and in my first 'proper' job after A levels as an office junior in a marketing dept. As the position implied, I was called on to run errands which 9/10 meant borrowing one a car from one of the managers - anything from a nice chunky Audi estate to a Mazda Xedos 6 (which I remember being utterly silent at tickover). If these weren't available there was the company pool car, a 4th gen Escort estate on an H plate if I remember correctly.
This rattly diesel disaster was shown no sympathy and was as grim as you can imagine it to be. Noisy, smelly, uncomfortable, rough, unrefined - all the usual tropes.
One day I was asked to go and pick something up from the town and on the way, fill up the pool car. I pulled into the nearby Shell station which is where the company had an account and promptly brimmed the thing with diesel. Set off and within a few hundred yards I was leaving plumes of white smoke behind me. I ended up stranded at the side of the road about a mile from the office wondering what had gone wrong.
It transpires what everybody in my dept thought was a rattly diesel Escort was in fact a petrol engined one. It sounded that bad.
If that was a CVH engine (albeit unloved) then I can totally understand the hatred.
My grandad had one of these, a white M registration LX, white with black bumpers (remember them).
I remember he thought the engine was rattling far too much, and my dad took a look and he left his "now empty" cup of tea mug in the engine bay
Ahh memories, miss my grandad!
My dad then had the car for a while as he got a Escort replacement, the car always had a distinct smell in fact all Ford's of the era did, not sure if it was the plastics or fabric they used at the time, bizzare.
I remember he thought the engine was rattling far too much, and my dad took a look and he left his "now empty" cup of tea mug in the engine bay
Ahh memories, miss my grandad!
My dad then had the car for a while as he got a Escort replacement, the car always had a distinct smell in fact all Ford's of the era did, not sure if it was the plastics or fabric they used at the time, bizzare.
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