{"id":542957,"date":"2010-04-25T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=19705"},"modified":"2010-04-25T23:50:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T03:50:30","slug":"2011-ford-fiesta-sedan-and-hatchback-u-s-spec-%e2%80%93-first-drive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542957","title":{"rendered":"2011 Ford Fiesta Sedan and Hatchback U.S. Spec \u2013 First Drive Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/reviews\/car\/10q2\/2011_ford_fiesta_sedan_and_hatchback_u.s._spec-first_drive_review\/gallery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19712\" title=\"2011 Ford Fiesta\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2011-Ford-Fiesta-plcmt-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em>The U.S.-market Fiesta is as good as its European counterpart. Hallelujah!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For years, we in the U.S. have had to watch with jealousy as the Europeans drove Ford vehicles that were faster, fancier, <em>better<\/em> than what was available here. We constantly begged for the products, but the hands of Ford\u2019s American product planners were tied by cost concerns and misaligned product cycles. No more. The automaker announced its ONE Ford plan a couple of years ago, the thrust of which was to design and market vehicles for worldwide consumption, and the first fruit of that plan, the <a onclick=\"s_objectID=&quot;http:\/\/preview.cdnew.hfmus.com\/news\/car\/09q4\/2011_ford_fiesta_-auto_shows_2&quot;;return  this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/09q4\/2011_ford_fiesta_-auto_shows\" >2011 Ford Fiesta<\/a>, has ripened.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/reviews\/car\/10q2\/2011_ford_fiesta_sedan_and_hatchback_u.s._spec-first_drive_review\">2011 Ford Fiesta Sedan and Hatchback U.S. Spec\u00a0&#8211; First Drive Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/2010-ford-fiesta-sedan-and-hatchback-will-be-made-in-mexico\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 2010 Ford Fiesta Sedan and Hatchback Will be Made in Mexico'>2010 Ford Fiesta Sedan and Hatchback Will be Made in Mexico<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/2011-ford-fiesta-short-take-road-test\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 2011 Ford Fiesta &#8211; Short Take Road Test'>2011 Ford Fiesta &#8211; Short Take Road Test<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/2009-nissan-versa-sedan-and-hatchback-review\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 2009 Nissan Versa Sedan and Hatchback &#8211; Review'>2009 Nissan Versa Sedan and Hatchback &#8211; Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-market Fiesta is as good as its European counterpart. Hallelujah! For years, we in the U.S. have had to watch with jealousy as the Europeans drove Ford vehicles that were faster, fancier, better than what was available here. We constantly begged for the products, but the hands of Ford\u2019s American product planners were tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}