Hiya!

I'm hopefully going to view a 60 plate Ford Fiesta Titanium with full dress up kit and several extras.

I currently drive a 1.0 Peugeot 107 so it a lovely upgrade. I am however worrying about the fuel. At present I use £20 a week which gets me 200ish miles. The guy that's selling the car has said it's about 45ish mpg and £20/£25 gets half a tank and runs for 180 miles? Is this right?

I don't want to spend all this money to regret it if fuel is going to kill me! I love the car but I need some honest help from the people that know! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance x

Is it 1.6 or 1.4 or 1.25 engine fiesta?

Or is it even a Petrol or Diesel?

Sorry it's a 1.6 petrol :)

It's never going to be like your 107, expect slighty higher fuel costs - but not too much more. If you drive it well, you should average between 35 and 45 mpg (depending on what roads you use)

You should also remember the Fiesta has a bigger fuel tank, so fill up's will cost more.

Fiesta's are normally realy decent economy wise so you havent got much to worry about other than the the oil companies bumping their prices up loads lol

I live about 5 miles from work and just drive to the gym and around at the weekends so only so about 200 miles a week. Think I'm going to go for it and stop being nervous lol! You are the ones that know so will just have to trust you all :)

180 miles sound about right for half a tank!

Luckily for my maths the tank is nigh on 10 gallons and 360 miles is about right :D

worth the £100 extra or so in road tax too (not to be a bad influence!)

I live about 5 miles from work and just drive to the gym and around at the weekends so only so about 200 miles a week. Think I'm going to go for it and stop being nervous lol! You are the ones that know so will just have to trust you all :)

Gods sake! What you moanin for then :P lol

I'm just such a worrier lol! It's a big jump from my little 1.0 so just wanted to make sure it's not going to go from £20 a week to £50! Lol!

Hmm I think you women just like finding something to moan about :P haha just enjoy your New car lol amd give it a couple of weeks after you get it before you measure how much you're using cause you always go through loads when you first get a car cause you drive it everywhere! Lol

Plus bear in mind with it being a 1.6 it won't be dragging it's butt as much as your 107 would have been doing!

I used to own a 107, they are very nippy round town - more than you would expect. The Fiesta is a heavier car, but the 1.6 engine will more than make up for it. You wont look back and think "i want my 107 back"

Mine is the 1.6 petrol Titanium and I love it :). I used to get about 37 ish mpg before I moved, which was on a combination of motorway, town and country roads, but you could get 40 or more if you drive carefully. The trip computer tends to show about 6 more mpg than what it really gets.

I think you should go for it, compared to a 1.0 this is in a different league. I recently had a 1.0 Citroen C1 as a courtesy car and it seemed so slow in comparison. One thing you'll notice is you can actually go up hills in 5th gear.

In a 5 mile each way journey it should just about get past its engine heat cycle and so will be running at optimal temperatures and parameters meaning decent fuel economy, although it depends on how the 5 miles go, if you can let rip and give it some you will probably use less fuel than if its stop and start traffic, as a guess it could be £25 per week rather than £20.