Fiesta smokes Pruis!!!

[Driven_M60]

2009 Ford Fiesta: Diesel Ford Fiesta Smokes Prius, Gets 62.5 MPG

[morpheusx]

Sounds good, marketing hype though right now. I remember just a few months ago the new TDI Jetta from VW was supposed to beat the Prius. Then it gets official EPA numbers and ends up with a 30 MPG city and 41 MPG highway.

And lets not forget that Prius IS NOT a Sub Compact, but is a mid size family sedan.

[fotomickey]

Yeah...but it cost more to fill-up in Diesel (at least in Van, BC)
Also Fiesta is a small car....its like compare Orange with Apple.
wait and see Toyota come-out with Yaris size Prius or Honda's Hybrid Fit

[Presto]

It's not really anything to even raise an eyebrow over. It's a sub-compact that can get decent mileage. Give something that size an HSD, and let's see what kinda mileage that can achieve.

[Bill Merchant]

Also consider that this is Driven_M60's first and perhaps only post, so it's possibly troll smoke.

[morpheusx]

Originally Posted by Bill Merchant

Also consider that this is Driven_M60's first and perhaps only post, so it's possibly troll smoke.

For now I'm giving the benefit of the doubt, but I was thinking the same thing and I'd be surprised if it isn't troll smoke. LOL

[Godiva]

How clean is the Ford Fiesta Diesel? Can it be sold in California?

[hill]

Originally Posted by fotomickey

Yeah...but it cost more to fill-up in Diesel (at least in Van, BC)
Also Fiesta is a small car....its like compare Orange with Apple.

More like comparing a strawberry (that smells like rotten egss and belches smoke, and uses fuel that costs 20% more than gas) to a big ol' watermellon

[Tideland Prius]

Sounds good. But what's the 0-60 time? Isn't that important in the US? I mean everyone says 10.5 secs is slow but no one ever mentions the Jetta TDI's time of 13 (oh I wonder why) or the diesel smart's 19 secs. This sounds like a 10-sec range car. You watch... suddenly 10 secs is acceptable.

[bulldog]

Let's see when the official combined mileage is released for the 09 Fiesta TD. Especially the combined EU rating, and oh wait will it comply with T2B5 US requirements?? If not what is the point of the writer even talking about it.

What some of these writers conveniently forget is that in the EU testing cycle the Prius gets 56.3 City(Urban), 67.3 Highway (extra Urban) and 65.7 MPG combined. Obviously UK gallons. Not bad for a midsize interior platform using a auto type transmission (what actually gets used in heavy commute traffic here).

I have also noticed a number of my Euro friends that have moved to the US quickly trade stick cars in for autos, when they actually get to drive in US traffic. Stick quickly looses it's appeal when you spend 50% of the time in slow moving traffic with lots of gear changes to go nowhere fast.

All this trolling and ill informed writers are getting boring.

We should tell them we will actually take notice when a car is released that can actually beat the Prius for fuel economy in the normal commute. I'm sure they will come in 2010, when the new (and hopefully more powerful and economical Prius comes out, maybe even PHEV soon afterwards). Then they did great to catch up to a 6+ year old design