I have driven over 30,000 miles in one year in this car and it gets great gas mileage. Because of the bubble design, it is so easy to parallel park in downtown with this car - I can get into pretty much any spot I have my eye on. The actual space in the car feels quite cramped, mostly whenever I have a passenger, we bump elbows often. I have the hatchback and I love that the seats fold down to make the trunk bigger. I go to Ikea and buy furniture in this car and I am able to squeeze everything in with the seats folded down - kind of reminds me of a clown car when I start taking things out. I only paid $13k for this car and it is a true work horse. I've even taken it on mountain roads that are not paved and it has not fallen apart on me at all. Because it's a small engine, I bought the base model, so going up hills is a struggle, it crawls up hill, so people are always passing me. Because it is so small, you can feel every bump and every curve in the road, my passengers do not enjoy the ride because it is far from being smooth. I suppose that could make this a great race car if you enhance the engine.

I like my Ford Fiesta because it gets great gas mileage. I travel a lot for work, and have to bring a great deal of gear with me, and the car can accommodate all of it while still getting great mileage. I have disliked working out some of the kinks of a new car--after owning for less than 6 months, the key would not turn in the ignition. The ignition was taken apart and put back together and then worked. No explanation as to what was going on, other than maybe some dirt got in the ignition. Which seemed pretty unlikely, and hard to believe that enough dirt could get in there to cause such a problem in so little time. Especially when I bought the car in the winter when the ground is frozen and dirt is under snow.