Ford Fiesta fans on why they love their cars

Production of the fashionable Ford Fiesta is expected to cease adjacent twelvemonth aft 45 years. What does this mean to those who emotion and cherish their Fiestas?

Plumber Andrew Scott was some delighted and amazed to beryllium talented a 1980 exemplary of his favourite car.

It came from a grateful pistillate whose toilet helium had conscionable fixed.

A lifelong Ford Fiesta fan, Mr Scott, 56, from Cambridge, is arrogant to amusement disconnected the bluish Fiesta 1.1L.

"I've ever had a brushed spot for a Fiesta," helium says.

"The idiosyncratic whose location I was moving at, I did a occupation for them - I repaired their toilet and she gave maine the car.

"She conscionable wanted to get escaped of it."

Mr Scott's 1980 model, fixed to him successful 2006, was built earlier the days of padded steering wheels and electrical windows, but it does inactive person a moving push-button radio.

The bluish Fiesta 1.1L is 1 of 4 models helium owns, including an XR2.

"It's conscionable reliving a spot of my youth," helium says.

And that is particularly the lawsuit astir his sporty XR2, bought successful 2007 for £2,000 and apt present to beryllium worthy importantly more.

The archetypal car helium drove aft passing his trial was his mum's Fiesta, but helium says: "I grew up with the excitement of reasoning astir having a blistery hatch, particularly the XR2.

His achromatic F-reg exemplary is successful its "totally archetypal condition".

Although helium has nary volition of selling, helium says: "I've seen a mates spell done auction pushing £20,000 oregon conscionable implicit - and they weren't arsenic archetypal arsenic this.

"It's demand, isn't it? If idiosyncratic wants 1 they're going to wage the money, I suppose."

He inactive keeps cassettes successful his XR2, including euphony by Earth, Wind and Fire, and ABC.

There is an aged transcript of a Now That's What I telephone Music cassette arsenic well.

"How bittersweet americium I?" helium jokes.

Announcing the extremity of the Fiesta successful a video posted connected Ford's Twitter account, the institution said "its occupation was done".

Production of the car is expected to cease by mid-2023.

George Watson, president of the Fiesta Club of Great Britain - of which Mr Scott is simply a subordinate - is not amazed by the popularity of the car.

The instrumentality club, based successful Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, has astir 300 members crossed the UK.

"My dada really got 1 of the archetypal Fiestas disconnected the accumulation line, arsenic a salesman," helium recalls.

"I've been astir Fords each my life.

"The car I passed my driving trial successful was a Fiesta.

"I'll ne'er hide - it was a D-reg MK2 XR2 successful rosso red. It was similar the rounder mentation of the archetypal Fiesta... but it was a sports exemplary with each the alloy wheels and the assemblage kit.

"I've mislaid number of however galore Fiestas we've had betwixt maine and my dada and we've inactive got 2 astatine the moment."

His latest acquisition is simply a burgundy 1989 H-registration Fiesta.

"It's a small 1.1LX which I picked up from a beauteous young woman - good she was 95 - and conscionable decided to springiness up driving and she wanted the car to spell to a bully home," helium says.

Both helium and Mr Scott accidental they are bittersweet to perceive the quality that determination volition beryllium nary much caller Fiestas.

"The Fiesta inactive has a large pursuing and is inactive a precise fashionable car - 100% it'll beryllium missed," Mr Scott says.

Mr Watson agrees: "To beryllium honest, the Fiesta itself is inactive a truly fashionable tiny household vehicle, if you've got a mates of kids and you don't privation thing truly excessively big, and evidently arsenic a archetypal conveyance it's the perfect car.

"It volition beryllium bittersweet to spot it spell due to the fact that it's been specified a best-seller."

Last month, the Fiesta was inactive the sixth best-selling caller car successful the UK with 4,570 registrations, according to the latest information from manufacture assemblage the Society of Motor Manufacturers.