Ford Fiesta Road Test / Car Review

After donning a black Polo neck and consulting the Impenetrable and Pretentious Guide To DesignerSpeak, I deduced that DLOs are DayLight Openings. Windows to you and me. One suspects George Formby would never have achieved quite such success with ^'When I'm Cleaning DayLight Openings' but that's by the by. With the three-door body shape, Ford have managed to give the somewhat staid Fiesta shape a little more pizzazz. And tight pricing starting from £8,595 should help too.

It's surprising just how much the deletion of a pair of doors can do for the looks of a car & and here's a case in point. The three-door Fiesta's roofline abandons the squared-off look of the five-door in favour of a more elegantly tapered line. This meets a more sharply raked tailgate with more of a kink than the abrupt angle of its more family-friendly sibling. To emphasise this wedge effect, the hipline & the line of the bottom of the side windows & is angled upwards more aggressively.

The facelift that the current car sports has done much the Fiesta's appearance. The grille is now of a diamond mesh design, the headlamps are pointier and the side mouldings grow thicker as they progress rearwards. The rear lights have been reshaped as have the bumpers and the overall effec