It’s an honest little car, if that makes sense.
It’s not pretending to be a full bore hot hatch while having no power , which is what all the manufacturers are doing these days. Ford has the ST line, looks the part but is mostly harsher and lots more money than a bog standard car and anyone that cares will know it’s not the real thing.
As my mother’s fella would say ‘fur coat and no knickers’ .
Of course it’s no rocket (less than 100 bhp) but around town and on twisty roads it’s a laugh. It suffers a little on motorways if your in fifth and drop below about 55, it pulls ok but not very quickly. Once back up to about 60 it finds the torque again and starts to get back into it’s stride. OFC dropping to fourth and giving it a quick squirt solves that problem but I won’t be doing that often.
Next question is breakdown cover, I won’t regularly be going far at all, mostly less than 20 miles from my place but I need a good service, especially as I’d struggle to change a wheel now. RAC and AA do a priority service for blue badge holders but they aren’t cheap (upfront, not bad after the almost 50% cashback available). Any thoughts anyone?
