2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0L EcoBoost Turbo 0-30 MPH First Drive Review 

^^^^^this

If you noticed, the car was already up to temp. ;-)

+Daniel Blaney From a sedan fan, I actually agree.

Even though the fiesta is one of the most common cars on the road, we don't have the sedan versions in the UK, so it's weird to see.

The Fiesta 1.6 TDCI is about £16,000 in England. That's about US$27,000. Would you pay that for a tiny hatchback? Today's national average $3.36 a gallon for unleaded, $3.85 for diesel. Average annual miles = 15,000: 62 US mpg for diesel Fiesta, 45 US MPG for 1.0 EcoBoost. Annual fuel consumption for gasoline model: 333.33 gallons ($1,120). Diesel model: 241.94 ($931.47). Cost difference: $188.53 per year. That would take the average driver 53 years to break even (not including the added interest or added cost of servicing the diesel engine). Knowing this, would you actually buy a diesel Fiesta? It's likely that the car won't even last 20 years, let alone 53.

I think everyone would choose a Range Rover if it were free, but with a higher price on gas/diesel, and a higher price on space to park and maneuver Europeans are more willing to pay more for a higher content smaller cars. However tastes are changing Ford is bringing over more high content Euro cars and Europeans are buying Dacias like hotcakes.

Kamaka Chang "Good news!" "What?" "The Dacia Sandero is coming to the US." "Wow... anyways, about the V8s..."

You probably dont care but if you are stoned like me during the covid times then you can watch pretty much all of the latest series on InstaFlixxer. I've been watching with my girlfriend during the lockdown xD

@Raphael Zion Yup, I've been watching on instaflixxer for months myself :)

@Raphael Zion Definitely, been watching on instaflixxer for since november myself =)

@Raphael Zion Definitely, I have been watching on InstaFlixxer for months myself :)

Just because Ford is offering this car to the masses here in the USA doesn't mean we want this pos. We are not Europe (thank gawd), so don't try to force your views on us. Anyway, we'll see if it sells beyond the tree hugging greenie types and the city folk, which I think it won't.

Srotag Adirolf "don't try to force your views on us" Wow. So reducing pollution and helping people spend less money on gas and is 'forcing one's view on someone else'.

+Tuppoo94 Why do you give a crap on how people spend their money? If they buy this pos, it's their money, go for it. I think there's a hidden msg in all this "clean" crap garbage they're pushing on people. And you've become sheeple. Also, don't give me any globull warming speech. That doesn't exist. It's all lies. Check out East Anglia U-Penn St. hockey stick lie. (Political) Besides, if pollution was so bad, why are western countries taking more and more immigrants in their countries? Why hasn't anyone crack down on Russia, china, India, or any other 3rd world hell hole? The amount hydrocarbons, CO2, and whatnot they spew in the air is ridiculous!

Srotag Adirolf Wow. Calling other people sheep. That's really mature. I never mentioned global warming. Pollution kills people without global warming. That should be a good enough reason to reduce it. What do immigrants have to do with this? Also, the emissions from '3rd world hell holes' are much lower per capita than in the US or Europe.

...with how much technology, education, and finance from the west? I cut you off before you spew your CRAP about the environment that's why I mentioned AGW. Give it up, bropheus, you lose.

LOL

Top speed of 10 mph

True, J.D. power has been showing these forced engines to have poorer dependability.

Kinda. The Lambo could be tuned to make more power per liter but its just about efficiency. Ford isn't really at the point IMHO in small displacement engines that say BMW or Honda is at. They can make power on small displacement engines because the have years of engineering experience with smaller motors. Ford typically never had a lot of performance 4cyl. BMW has had a few, honda even more. Give it time.

Brad Riley It's not about Honda, BMW, Ford, it's not even about the displacement or number cylinders. The problem is with turbocharging and direct injection on all of these new engines. This can all sound wonderful on paper, but people forget that this is adding complexity to these engines. If you add more heat, more pressure, more moving parts, more things that can break, more things will break. Just look at J.D. power's 2014 VDS. The more of these tiny turbo and DI engines we see, the more problems we see. autos.jdpower.com/ratings/2014-Vehicle-Dependability-Study-Press-Release.htm "Engine and transmission problems increase by nearly 6 PP100 year over year, accounting for the majority of the overall 7 PP100 increase in reported problems. The decline in quality is particularly acute for vehicles with 4-cylinder engines, where problem levels increase by nearly 10 PP100. These smaller engines, as well as large diesel engines, tend to be more problematic than 5- and 6-cylinder engines, for which owners report fewer problems, on average."

***** DI and Turbocharging aren't new, but they have shown to be more problematic.

***** There's nothing new about turbocharging or direct injection, it's been around for a while.

Any way to market crap these days

Have fun with your boring ass hybrid... This car is super fun to drive, and as for the way it looks, yes the sedan is ugly but the hatchback is definitely much better looking.

SodleHD actually Im having fun with my Daihatsu charade Gti 1.6Vtec powered hehe but I just saying if all emissions were about Iwill take an electric and or hybrid before this tiny ugly bug and NO emssions and lower MPG so you got 1 for fun and 1 for Ecology ;)

I will stick with automatic I cannot be bothered changing gears

no they are making a 2.3 ecoboost in the 2015 mustang. And its already announced to have at least 305hp at a minimum.

Daniel Blaney Yeah they said it would have more HP than the v6 o.O

youtube "ecoboost torture test". You know what is for sissies? having 7 liters of displacement and making 500hp from factory and japan can do 3.8liters with twin turbos and make more. There is no replacement for displacement....Except turbos.

Brad Riley what vehicle are you referencing with the 7L?

+That One Ford Guy Hey, who left the vacuum on? Oh sorry, couldn't tell the difference from all the sucking noise. Probably people laughing at Ford's attempt to re-invent turbos by calling them "EcoBoost" now instead of just turbo. Meanwhile, basic Japanese 4 cylinders have had more power than this car with no need for an unreliable turbo for many years now. But I guess being 10 years behind is pretty good for Ford. lol, it's like someone at Ford found out about all those turbo cars that existed in the '80s and just now thought about getting them to put them on all their cars. NA engines are always best, less to go wrong, and more robust. This little turd will be blown up in no time, as is the typical fate for everything Ford.

That's true. However you need to make the engine rev like crazy to get any of that power. When it comes to torque turbos will always be ahead.

+Edgar Miranda Franco Have to disagree on that. From a sedan fan, the hatchback looks much better. Although I am not a fan of hatchbacks, it does look better than the sedan version (even hurts to say that).

Hows the reliability? What kind of miles have you put on it? Im looking at a focus with a manual transmission.

I just got one it's same color everything is one n video. Only thing. Mine is a 2015

It wouldn't get past 20 mph!

That's a weird fiesta

+tlv156 I got a chance to drive one of these as a rental, and it does amaze you with the amount of power for the engine’s tiny size. It’s not like econo-boxes of the past, it’s more than just acceptable for a daily driver/commuter car- it’s actually a decent feeling all around little car. How long a 1.0L turbo 3 cylinder engine will stay together, that I don’t know. Most of these types of cars wind up with first time new car buyers who are just out to drive the wheels off of it and don’t take very good care of it.

I had a turbo Chevrolet Sprint. Bought in 1992, it was a 1987. I sold it in 2010. 193k, just one turbo and one head gasket. It was very reliable. However, the Fiesta has been having Throttle Body issues with no repair, no fix, from Ford.

You can buy a short shifter from Ford.

You should! I bought a 2014 Fiesta S hatchback 5 speed a few months ago, and I have no complaints. The seat takes some getting used to and its somewhat difficult to see out of the rear view mirror, but other than that it's awesome. Good fuel economy (I average 30-32mpg), fun to drive, and much easier to park than your F-150 ;)

That's good, man! Yeah, I'm driving my truck down in the city all the time too for work, so it isn't too fun to park at times. haha

SketchRC Fiesta S Hatchback.....averaging 30-32 MPG? That is dreadful, I thrash my 1Litre Fiesta a lot and the worst average MPG I get is 45 MPG. I am averaging 47 even though the car says it is 52. My previous 1.6 Titanuim averaged 44. I don't have a light right foot, so I wonder what you are doing to only achieve 30-32MPG!

.. its just changing with the times..i don't really see it as being hypocritical..its all about supply and demand and they were supplying what their customer demanded.. there was a muscle car era.. there was a i don't know what you call it but a horrible looking late 80's and 90's era of cars.. and the 2000's brought in the fuel economy era (this all being in terms of the US).. trying to do more with less.. just like anything certain companies are gonna make there progress at a different pace.. why be surprised that the companies that thrived off the V8 to be slow or behind in making the transition to that market.. honda, toyota, nissan never had a muscle car era to get over.. there was no real demand for big displacement motors from the consumer like there was in the US. Not a sermon just a thought.

Well considering that's it's a 3 cylinder and gets 45 mpg, plus pushing out almost 150 lbs ft of torque, that's pretty true. I'm not a fan of Ford, but that's pretty damn impressive

Elio is going to be very slow, hehe. Like 30 HP.

55 hp right now like the old air cooled VWs. Only 1250 lbs though. Maybe someday I'll put a small turbo diesel in it

It's the same in many places of Florida.

Yes, the cars get to Colorado. Perhaps you missed this week's Volvo V60 Review that we first drove in vegas at the beginning of the year.

No, no. Where's the Fiesta Ecoboost review at Colorado?

Probobly cost. That IB5 gearbox is also quite weak and the car is pretty much at the torque limit for the gearbox aswell

The fiesta hatchback is a great-looking car. The sedan is the one that looks awful.

Opinions may vary lol.

647killa Not on that though. Opinions are unanumous on the fact that the Fiesta Hatch looks better than the bastardized "sedan" the yanks made.

The Miata, Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ aren't very practical cars, are they?

they did .years ago. the capri convertable front wheel drive. engineered in austrailia mostly . i think kia had something to do with it like the festiva/aspire it sold but didnt do as well as the miata with miata they styled it after a lotus elan , i think , looked great , thats why it still here. miata is like an icon. its not easy to make an icon. usually it is pure luck. vw beetle