Monday, June 15, 2009

Ford introduces auto trans in Fiesta in Europe, a must have for US market


Car Scoop has a piece linked in the title about Ford introducing a new auto trans for the Fiesta in Europe. Interestingly, it's only available with one powerplant, a 1.4L petrol unit and in this class of car it will account for only 10% of sales in Europe. It's a necessary evil for the US market so the timing is good. I prefer a manual shift myself, my Ranger and Mazda are both stick, but here in the US automatics are a majority of the market.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I must be getting lazy in my old age, I now prefer automatics.