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19-08-2010, 01:45 PM | #1 | ||
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We have had the little Fiesta for a month or so now and had planned a huge holiday up north Queensland. My parents are playing grey nomads at the moment so we went to surprise them.
As we only had a week off from work we decided to head straight out on the Friday night after work. We had fixed spot lights on her before the trip as I use this little beast as my daily & battle roos & emus almost nightly. A full tank of fuel and off we went At about 3am we hit a roo :( Must say this was the worst possible thing I thought would have happened. I really didnt think the little car would hold up against a good sized roo ....... I was a little pensive about the air bags going off. (Naive me has never had a car with them before). We stopped and checked out the front end & found that all that could be seen was the lower grille had been dislodged....... Pretty amazed we kept going until we got to Miles and stopped for fuel. I checked the front end carefully in the light & was stunned that apart from a couple of lugs that hold the grille on the only other apparent damage was the tow point cover had popped out, clicked it back in & she was jake and the passenger side blinker on the side panel had also popped out. Pushed that back in place & she looked like new again Off we went again heading to Proserpine. These little cars are awesome, so much so that was the only thing to report in a negative way. Along the trip we were able to get the fuel economy to 705KM per tank ...... I am NOT complaining about that for an 06 manual vehicle The handling in twisty bits was crazy!!!!!! I read somewhere that they are referred to as Go-Karts ..... best description ever I would thoroughly recommend this car to anyone. I am greatly surprised by her, I have always been a 'big' car girl ........ well I was mistaken :P |
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19-08-2010, 04:08 PM | #2 | ||
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I agree. I've always had large cars, but after test driving the XR4 couldn't sign for one fast enough. The Fiestas are an excellent, fun little car.
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19-08-2010, 05:32 PM | #3 | ||
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The only thing I wish for was that if the WS had about 20Kw more
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19-08-2010, 09:13 PM | #4 | ||
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Glad that you had a good trip mother nature. Lucky that roo didnt bust the Fez up!!!
Damo I thought you were getting a supra or a ute or something months ago? |
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19-08-2010, 09:36 PM | #5 | ||
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LOL We did get a ute too.....a Courier for hubby ;) Have had a bit of an upgrade time with vehicles here...... Well the Sprint is still here & always will be.
Have sold my little Laser & now need to sell the XH ute & we will be set ;) I normally hate talking up a vehicle because we all know what happens when we do .... but after all those KM's in one week I think Im safe |
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19-08-2010, 11:56 PM | #6 | |||
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