Ford Fiesta Usados en Venta en Houston, TX

There was only so much we could do in the car. Read books. Play animal poker. Sing songs together. Seat belts were usually neglected like the leftover tuna casserole in the back of the fridge. Some states protected us with laws back then, but nobody cared. We would often fall sleep while laying in the floorboard of the car. My kids do not understand how good they have it. The minivan was built to keep them entertained for the 13-hour drive to Tampa. Instead of having to stare out the window for what seems forever, they can stare at the LCD screen conveniently hanging from the roof of the van. Instead of swiping through the pages of a book and the story hidden within the collections of letters and words and punctuation marks, they can swipe through "Angry Birds" or "Cut the Rope." Instead of singing songs with each other, belting out the "I Wish They All Could be California Girls" with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, they can put on their headphones and sing along silently to Lady Gaga. If only my kids understood how wonderful of a world they live in with all of the technology that helps the time pass by. I guess someday they will say the same about their kids. In that great mystery of time and life, the present will become the past, and the past will become the present. The future will remain as it were, a better place that none of us find.

I was initially excited to try the Fiesta of the FOST fame, and it handled really well from a handling perspective in taking turns and being zippy. It also got excellent gas mileage (over 42mpg highway) for one of my trips, and overall was a comfortable ride. The challenge with the vehicle was the horrible powertrain; between the engine and the transmission, it couldn't figure out what it wanted to do. This was especially horrible for a stop-n-go or heavy traffic situations such as one would face in a daily commute, the engine kept revving and the transmission kept changing, it was very indecisive. Overall, decent car once it has a refined or improved powertrain, until then avoid for your own sanity.