The end of the Ford Fiesta

I have been in many a fiesta. I remember the the oldest one was before the stumpy front one bit it still had the metal going down between the lights and no real grill but he kept it absolutely spotless like new inside.

Then after that he got a stuppy nose one and had a crash in it so gave up driving for a while and moved to the city. It was not that badly damaged do and his brother bought it after it got all fixed up for real cheap. It had the 1.25 zetec engine in it and could easily do the ton but that was bloody scarry.

Anyway the engine finally went a bit crazy in it he would be shopped at light and the engine would be revving like mad and then when he would go to go it would nearly stall so it got scrapped for a Focus 3 door.

I have also been in some of the more recent models just not the very latest one.

So yes a car that has touched a lot in Irish society I would say.

So it's not just the fiesta. The smax, galaxy and focus will join the mondeo on death row. So basically all its passenger cars (other than a couple of faux SUVs) are being axed over the next 2 years with nothing but the Mach E, which doesn't even sport the blue oval, launched as a replacement. Sad really, Ford as we have known it is gone.

Surprised to hear they have an ID4 equivalent launching next year. Best kept secret in the motor industry or are they simply way being the curve in its development?

Fiesta sales have been in decline across the Continent for a few years now. SMax and Galaxy are based on the Mondeo platform so their cards were marked since the Mondoe got the death sentence. I didn't read anything about the future of the Focus but would assume the current Focus will solider on for a few more years.

Mache E is too expensive to sell in decent numbers here and putting a Mustang name on it was daft but Puma EV is being launched next year. Ford already have a platform sharing agreement with VW around some of their commercial vehicles so Ford badged ID models couldn't be ruled out at some point I guess.

The article is suggesting the focus will be axed in 2025 so unless you want to drive around in a ranger or a transit, it's either a faux SUV or an over priced EV unless they get the finger out and launch a few affordable and practical EVs

As an ST owner I think the end of the Fiesta will leave a gap in the affordable fun market.

Though an new ST is 41.5k here now so maybe not so cheap anymore.

Will there be a gap in the market for them?

I don't like regular Fords, but I love all the ST & RS cars. Particularly the Fiesta (had a Focus ST for a short time and drove a Fiesta ST)... they are just unrefined fun fun fun, noise, clatter, acceleration, handling... a pure drivers car (unlike the latest Golf GTi which went a bit too smooth, sophisticated and urbane). There's two Fiesta ST's close to me, a red one and a blue one, both immaculate.

When I see a Ford Fiesta ST I feel like shaking the owners hand. Maybe there'll be a few hooligan celebration models released at the end of the line that I can pick up when they're affordable in a decades time.

The irony is that Govts are now heavily incentivising EVs whose 0-100 kph times would dwarf those of so called hot hatches that are considered by many to be driven by young foolhardy risk takers that put other more sensible persons life's at risk. No such negative sentiments towards EVs for some reason. Maybe it's because todate they are the preserve of more sensible better off people which may change in the years ahead when more affordable used EVs make there way into the hands of these younger foolhardy class of drivers. A new era of muscle cars beckon?

The way things are heading you'll soon be able to throw your Fiesta in the boot of your EV to show off to your friends so they can marvel as how compact super mini sized ICEs were in the bad old days

U.K. sales of Fiesta fell off a cliff and it hasn't made the top 10 in year - the Puma is the best selling Ford now. Its not all dead for the cheapish small cars though- the Corsa is the best selling car in the U.K. for some reason, and the 208 and Sandro are big sellers in Europe. I hope that the green agenda pushes the market back into smaller cars. I'm driving a fairly large SUV and its rubbish, can't wait to get back to an estate

https://www.carscoops.com/2021/04/2023-ford-ev-based-on-vws-meb-platform-spied-will-be-a-boxy-compact-suv/

They are using the VW MEB platform, so there will be ID (MEB) based passenger cars from Ford

If this doesn't show the absolute folly of forcing us into these damn electric cars on spurious environmental saving grounds, I don't know what is.

It is absolutely ludicrous that a small, light, cheap car (that just so happens to be an absolute riot to drive, even the cooking 1.1s with no power at all handle like a sports car and have steering feel that's like a car with decent hydraulic power steering than the usual numbness and remoteness that comes as standard in cars with electric power steering) has to give way because of emissions rules / government policy discouraging car companies from selling cars like the humble Ford Fiesta, yet we've all these oversized, overpriced and overweight electric SUVs being able to be sold and supposedly zero emissions. How is a 2.7 tonne monstrosity like a Mercedes EQS or BMW iX or any of those over vulgar electric SUVs that are the current misguided fashion greener than this?

Common sense has resolutely gone out the window here.

Are you considering a new Fiesta for your next car?

If your answer is no, then that's why it's being scrapped. Nothing to do with an agenda. The market dictates what it wants.

It's not that simple, Govt policy massively distorts the market. Greenie policies such as carbon based VRT, motor tax and EV grants has massively distorted the market in Ireland in recent years. Did the market really decide that non commercial urban drivers should buy diesel cars?

Very sad to hear as the fiesta was a decent, affordable car, that was great to drive. But considering we are in an energy/climate crisis it seems quite bizarre that a huge car maker like ford is abandoning small cars.