Actually a hire thingy from Europcar while mine's having the car park barrier imprint removed from its roofline.
It's a black five door Fiesta hatchback. No badges to show trim or engine but 15 spoke alloys, aircon and folding mirrors say titanium. Engine is petrol and 998cc according to DVLA but could be 80, 100 or 125PS. It's quite poky so probably 100? Are some of these three cylinder? It has an odd vibration you can feel through seat bolster when stopped. If it was own car you'd get used but felt odd to a newbie.
Feels small and closed in after the Berlingos and I cannot quite get seat/wheel relationship right - too close unless I rake the seat back further than feels natural. Decent sized boot though; swallowed a Brompton whole followed by its front pannier.
Only really driven it from Northampton back home. Easy enough to handle round town with almost diesel like low down torque. Only got it up to 50 on the A4500 and even that's 25% over the limit, comfortable enough. Like most modern cars it's got a conscience arrow to tell you to change gear too soon. As usual I'm ignoring it. In gears that feel right it's very speed stable in both 20 and 30 limits. Light steering and very easy to place accurately in our drive - an S-reverse that can easily end up on next door's grass if not properly judged.
Nice radio/CD, must have bluetooth as it's nagging me to link phone if I want emergency assist (whatever that is!). Bit of a faff to retune, it must have spent time in Jockland as Radio Sotland and BBC Tay were on pre-sets to exclusion of R4.
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