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Article: Road test It may look like it's been designed by an excited teenager, but the Ford Fiesta still reigns supreme in the supermini league, says Neil Lyndon
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- September 7, 2008
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Busy, busy, busy. It's desperately hard work being a style
object, as the new Ford Fiesta proved exhaustively at its recent
launch in Siena.
You could get quite tired just running your eye over the body of
this car and counting the number of its lines and surfaces. Where
the original 1977 Fiesta was a classic of plain, undecorated design,
with every plane as undisturbed as a sheet of paper, this new car
can't allow a single surface (except the roof, which is largely
invisible) to lie still.
In 30 years, the Fiesta has gone from being as unpretentious as a
cardboard box to being as many-sidedly complex as a Frank Gehry
building. Apart from the wheels and the spotlight casings, there
isn't a ...