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Old 19-01-2021, 11:32 PM   #22
Franco Cozzo
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Default Re: Fiesta ST loses LED headlights in cost cutting move

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Originally Posted by Ratmick View Post
Yeah I'll be sorry to see it go, it really was a driver's car.

Not 100% suited to Australian roads, but I loved driving it.

I ended up doing 99% of the driving in it by myself (and not much at all this year due to COVID) as my partner thinks it's:
  1. Too uncomfortable
  2. Too 'bouncy'
  3. Too hard to reach the seatbelt
  4. Too easy to get wedged between the back seat and the front seat if you slip off the seat off getting out of the back (don't ask, long story).
Plus I drive like a hoon in it, apparently.

...although she also levels that one at me when I drive her Mazda 2, so maybe it's just me and small nippy cars

It's only done ~29,000km in four years...
Yeah, seems to be a common theme amongst the non enlightened family members, anyone who has no interest in cars hates them for all of the above reasons.

People who whinge about them being uncomfortable, I've done Adelaide to Melbourne and return 6 times in the old man's ST, avoiding the Western Highway, I only ever stop once for fuel in Tailem Bend which is about 600km non stop driving and I can still walk afterwards so they're not as bad as people make out
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