NEWS

FORD once again took the top 2 sales slots in the UK new car sales chart with the Fiesta top dog.
It was followed up by the Ford Focus, continuing a Ford 1-2 trend.
Other brands had reason to celebrate too, though. Hyundai came in 8th with its scrappage-smash-hit i10, while the Audi A3 was also a [...]

FORD Fiesta buyers have voted the supermini best car of 2009 by buying it in greater numbers than any other new car.
SMMT figures show the Fiesta is way ahead of the rest, with 117,296 sales.
Bosses at Ford are celebrating further too, as the Focus came out in 2nd place overall in the new car [...]

FORD is hoping its new 76mpg Fiesta Econetic Van can help it to 25 percent of the small van sector.
The new eco model is now on sale, costing from £11,635.
Emitting a tiny 98g/km of CO2, it’s one of the greenest vans in the world, and will help provide big fuel savings to fleets. There may [...]

FORD has just introduced its first special edition version of the current Fiesta with a high specification new trim.
Coming on the back of a recent minor trim line-up reshuffle, the new Titanium Individual offers a really special standard spec.
Ford says it has premium car features, for a saving of £100 over a regular Titanium [...]

SEPTEMBER 2009 new car sales took the year-to-date total up to 1,517,039, with Ford’s Fiesta topping the chart.
The figures are still 15 percent behind last year’s numbers, but the decline is far lower than many feared.
At this point last year, 1,794,419 new cars had been sold. In 2009, it is the decline in fleet sales [...]

FORD sold 26 percent more Fiestas in July – and, again, it’s scrappage that’s to thank for the increase.
44 percent of Fiesta sales have now come under the scrappage scheme – from a total of nearly 4000 scrappage Ford sales in July.
So far, the brand has recorded 16,500 new car scrap scheme registrations.
But it’s not [...]

ONE argument against the Government car scrappage scheme has been that it’s just as green to drive old cars. Not so!

To prove it, Ford has released a set of statistics.
Car Dealer Magazine has been able to scoop these. And they provide car dealers with serious ammo for customers!
Take the Fiesta, the nation’s most popular car. [...]

FORD’S all-new Fiesta has just been launched to the BCA used car auction halls – with its baby sibling, the new Ka.
BCA Nottingham handled the sale, which Ford said generated ‘excellent’ results.
15 new Ford Fiestas averaged 85 percent of list – and BCA claimed there were some highlights from the sale:
•    Fiesta 1.4 Titanium 3dr: [...]

FORD’S Fiesta has just taken the overall European sales number one slot from the Volkswagen Golf.
A massive March sales increase of over 15 per cent has seen the Ford supermini conquer in an otherwise depressed market.
First quarter European sales are down by 16.9 percent, reports JATO Dynamics, as the recession bites further into car retailing.
This [...]