Review: Ford Fiesta Eco Boost!

About Two weeks ago the good, generous people at Ford South Africa lent us their 1.0 Ford Fiesta Eco-Boost for a weekend and to ultimately drive it to State Theatre in Pretoria for Idols SA…as official sponsor it was fitting. The Ford Fiesta Eco-Boost is what SA Idols winner walks/drive home with after being announced a winner.

As GMSA car driver let’s talk about what an awesome car the Ford Fiesta Eco Boost is:

• The Eco Boost design is amazing, just by looking at the car from the outside, I fell completely in-love with it.
• From the inside, leather plated interior …The smell of new leathered seats *sigh*.
• The car looks relatively small like a standards starter pack hatch vehicle but when inside you feel and see spacious-ness .
• The car is power-ful, it runs like a horse on steroids… I was not speeding but as a test drive I had to feel the horse power the EcoBoost comes with.
• Park Assist enabled, which I didn’t use because moss I’m the dawg at this parking thing. Lol
• Voice control .
• A complete luxurious comfort drive.
• And it’s an automatic!
• However this beast called Ford Fiesta Eco Boost is indeed a beast as it chows petrol like no other car I have ever tested. The car was delivered to me 3 quarters of fuel and I can tell you now by Sunday evening I had to cough up petrol from my pocket. I drive around and half a tank of petrol lasts me about a week (over +5 days of driving). The Eco-Boost is amazing and powerful but fuel consumption is excessive.

Having said the above, The Ford Fiesta Eco Boost is an awesome car to car and I would not mind to won/drive one. Info on price ranges and models are as follows:

Fiesta Range                                                                        

1.4 Ambiente 5-speed Manual                            R198 900

1.0 EcoBoost Ambiente 5-speed Manual         R198 900       

1.0 EcoBoost Ambiente 6-speed PowerShift         R208 900

1.6 TDCi Ambiente 5-speed Manual                      R218 900

1.4 Trend 5-speed Manual                                   R204 900

1.0 EcoBoost Trend 5-speed Manual                     R209 900

1.0 EcoBoost Trend 6-speed PowerShift                R219 900

1.6 TDCi Trend 5-speed Manual                            R225 900

1.0 EcoBoost Titanium 5-speed Manual                 R229 900

1.0 EcoBoost Titanium 6-speed PowerShift            R239 900

1.6 EcoBoost ST 6-speed Manual (3-door)            R282 900

All Fiesta models are sold with a four-year/120 000km comprehensive warranty, four-year/60 000km service plan, three-year/unlimited km roadside assistance and five-year/unlimited km corrosion warranty.

Service intervals are every 20 000km on the EcoBoost petrol engines and every 15 000km on the Duratorq TDCi diesel engines.

Thank you Ford SA, Ford Fiesta Eco-Boost for an awesome drive!!!

Zeeba ©

@Zolanimasombuka

*The declared fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions figures were acquired according to the technical requirements and specifications (SANS 20101: 2006 / ECE R101: 2005) within laboratory conditions, as stipulated by legislation. Fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions figures are used to compare different vehicle types under uniform conditions and are not necessarily indicative of real-life driving conditions. Note that the actual fuel consumption and emission will depend on many factors including your driving habits, prevailing conditions and your vehicles equipment, condition and use.

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