Category: Superminis 
Price Range: No data available
Excellent interior space, practical, good safety features, good handling.
Most engines could do with more pep; hard seats, noisy diesel, excessive road noise on big wheels, one or two inconvenient features.
Sensible and fun to drive on the right road, but a bit dull; it also feels a little cheap and flimsy.
The Fiesta has not scored particularly well in surveys of running costs, mainly due to its poor record for holding its value - popular as it is as a second-hand buy, there are so many Fiestas around that residual values are not that strong.
It's not particularly cheap to buy in the first place these days, either, though you do get a lot of equipment for the money with the higher-specification versions and Ford dealers usually have a low-cost special edition model or two on the go at any one time.
However, well over 60mpg should be possible from either the 1.4 and 1.6 diesels and this, coupled with low servicing and lower crash-repair costs - which will allow lower insurance groupings - keeps day-to-day costs containable. Fuel consumption from the petrol engines is better than most, too: 45mpg from the 1.25, 43mpg from the 1.4 petrol, and 41mpg from the 1.6, and thus carbon dioxide emissions (and tax ratings) are correspondingly low as well.
