 Kit list
The entry-level Streetka has electric windows, front fog lamps, driver and passenger front airbags, electrically-adjustable mirrors, a height-adjustable driver's seat and height-adjustable head restraints, an aluminium gearknob, leather-covered steering wheel and radio/CD player. The upper-spec model (not called Desire, thankfully, but dubbed Luxury) has a six-CD autochanger, air conditioning, leather-upholstered heated seats, keycode anti-theft coding, side airbags and a Quickclear windscreen.
 Choice will widen
Eventually, the Streetka will be offered in six different colours, but from launch, the following will be available: solid black or red, silver, 'Envy' dark green or metallic blue. The exterior of each car is fully colour-coded, and the interior appropriately matching, though all cars will have the black fascia with metallic-effect highlights.
 Cubby holes
There's not a lot by way of storage in here, but there is a capsule-style glovebox compartment, as in the Ka hatchback, small pockets in the doors, two cupholders and a small net in the rear bulkhead, behind the two seats.
 Sales predictions
The initial 1000 First Edition models have all been snapped up already, and Ford expects to sell 6000 Streetkas in total in the UK in 2003, and 22,000 across Europe as a whole. In 2004, a few - but not many - more will be made; Ford of Britain MD Paul Thomas says "we can sell every one of those that we can make, but we won't make enough." This is due to the limited capacity at the Pininfarina facilities, but Ford has a strategy planned to limit supply anyway, to keep up demand and strengthen residual (resale) values. The company wants to keep the consumers wanting more, and when production is ceased, probably within a couple of years as only a small total number is planned, to go out on a high note, as it did with the Puma. Incidentally, the Puma had to be discontinued to make the Streetka possible; Thomas explains that Ford can produce the Ka chassis (derived from the last-generation Fiesta) alongside that of the new Fiesta chassis, and this is still worthwhile as the Ka hatch continues to sell so well, but it could only do one extra model, albeit with external final-build elsewhere.
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