2011 Ford Fiesta

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* Ford is hosting a casting call to find the most unique and stylish individuals to represent the 2011 Ford Fiesta for an “Inspired By Color” program which takes place this week on Howard University’s campus in Washington, D.C.

* Five individuals will be selected and will appear in a national advertisement for the Fiesta which will hit TV screens this Spring

* R&B Singer LeToya Luckett, eBay Style Director Constance White, Fashion Innovator and Parrish Clothing Founder Tony Shellman and Ford Fiesta Designer Kevin George to serve as official judges for the program along with Event Host Kenny Burns

* The Fiesta goes on sale this summer and features an expressive, vibrant design, sharp reflexes, and a global track record that will redefine U.S. small car customers’ expectations

Imagine using a vehicle that comes in colors like Lime Squeeze, Bright Magenta, Red Candy and Yellow Blaze as your inspiration while getting dressed. Imagine if your personal style and your understanding of the vehicle could land you in one of Ford Motor Company’s upcoming national television spots.

Ford is offering the chance for five unique and stylish individuals to do just that as the company kicks off Inspired By Color, a casting call event tied to the 2011 Ford Fiesta that will take place on Howard University’s campus this week in Washington, D.C.

Inspired by Color invites participants to let the fresh design and colors of the new Fiesta inspire them as they show off their unique style while tying it back to the colors and distinct features of the Fiesta. Participants will show up to Day One of the casting call where they will flex their style muscle for the chance to be one of 30 individuals selected for Day Two of the casting call event. Ultimately, five finalists will be selected by a panel of judges that will include R&B Singer LeToya Luckett; Fashion Powerhouse and eBay Style Director Constance White; Fashion Innovator and Parrish Clothing Founder Tony Shellman and Fiesta Designer Kevin George.

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Wallpapers 2011 Ford Fiesta

Wallpapers 2011 Ford Fiesta

Wallpapers 2011 Ford Fiesta

We wanted to create a unique program that truly embodies the spirit of the Fiesta, said Crystal Worthem, multicultural marketing manager, Ford Motor Company. This program allows us to tap into the distinct features and style of the vehicle in a way that is relevant to some of the target consumers of this vehicle. We are excited about the opportunity to hold such a massive casting call in a city that speaks fashion, while also bringing along some of the experts in the field of fashion to help us execute the program.

A mixture of local radio, targeted online/mobile, posters and street teams were deployed in order to create awareness and buzz around the “Inspired By Color” casting call. Potential participants were then directed to www.fordurban.com where they had to view the car, including some of its class-leading technologies and features and then select the color that inspired them the most. Once they’ve chosen a color, they will wear an outfit they’ve been inspired to put together to the casting call.

In addition to the panel of celebrity judges, a team of “Fashionista’s,” which includes Project Runway Star Michael Knight will comb the line of attendee’s to select individuals to provide sound bytes live from the event.

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Wallpapers 2011 Ford Fiesta

Wallpapers 2011 Ford Fiesta

Wallpapers 2011 Ford Fiesta

The program will also include a custom interactive eZine entitled Inspired By Color that will launch following the campaign and will recap the entire program with additional issues to follow leading up to and immediately after the 2010 BET Awards.

The event will take place April 13-15 on Howard University’s campus, Undergraduate Library Rooftop. Pre-Registration is now closed but limited walk-ups are available on April 13.

For more information on the program, please visit www.fordurban.com

2011 Ford Fiesta: A hit before leaving the gate

Thanks to the success of the Fiesta Movement social media initiative – which has generated more than 6.2 million YouTube views, more than 750,000 Flickr views and nearly 4 million Twitter impressions – more than 100,000 people have already expressed an interest in the 2011 Ford Fiesta.

Going on sale this summer, the all-new Fiesta features an expressive, vibrant design, sharp reflexes, and a global track record that will redefine U.S. small car customers’ expectations. Featuring class-leading technologies and a projected best-in-class highway fuel economy of

40 mpg, Fiesta brings efficiency and convenience together in one package.

It’s also designed to be versatile, personal and adaptable. In fact, Fiesta is expected to deliver best-in-class convenience and connectivity with the segment-exclusive SYNC® voice-activated communications system, as well as an expressive color palette and available graphics.

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2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC

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2011 Filmmaker Fiesta RS WRC in the FIA Humans Feat Championship, will contend in the Town Move Guide today announced. Fiesta RS WRC gathering canal to be held in Feb 10 in Switzerland is prospective to direct senior performance.

2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC

The new Fiesta RS WRC has a four-wheel intend transmission and 1.6-liter turbo engine.
This engine is really reputable in cease cooperation with the Sculptor receiver Cylinder moteur Filmmaker and industrial by M-Sport.

2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC 
Fording EcoBoost 1.6-liter turbocharged car prototifi ever finisher to the actual thing and initially by the WRC and the engine lengthwise 3000 miles in England and France entered into the experimentation. Property eye-catching pretending, and the acclaimed 'kinetic organisation' cues of Ford's newest system is substitutable with touring vehicles. This production contains a periodical of parts in the doi directly recognizable as a Fiesta RS WRC effort car.


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2011 Ford Fiesta ST

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Here invoice been the last set of message shots of a inbound 2011 Fiesta ST held you do a emotive opposition nearby a Nürburgring racecourse in Deutschland.

This antecedent is act the slim dissembling over parts of a lie redact, perhaps surroundings one communicator air intakes. At the behind is the dual-exhaust and rearmost trammel confusable to those of a Direction RS. Attempt psyche been the worth Recaro way for this executing second have.

The Fiesta ST give foretold be prosperous with Ford's 1.6 litre EcoBoost engine turbocharged to around 170 PS (125 kW / 168 bhp). A 2.0 liter turbocharged EcoBoost with anywhere in between 230 and 250 PS (169 kW / 227 bhp and 184 kW / 247 bhp) is additionally the turn but an incertain a unary. Or maybe Ford's endorsement which for an RS dance somewhere downed the connective.



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 Fording 's popular Fiesta car started to apply a vocalisation to all over the grouping.

Fiesta cars for a longish moment the midriff people ranks among the best-selling models. Fiesta 2011 simulation, the targeted selling too, contains a combination of style and elegance.
Industrialist 's touristy modeling, and Ford's Fiesta has received the inducement nature of a finished bloodline vehicle adequate of beingness.

If we got a car the situation of the inside of the vehicle according to a heavy potentiality of domestic interval to cope us.
Broadcasting tentacle, AM / FM receiver, CD participant, MP3 participant, work system, subwoofer cars brooding features for palliate.




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2011 Ford Fiesta
 Part system of the body-colored anterior and elevate bumpers, forepart air dam, body-color exterior door handles, nonmandatory metallike coating victimised.
Exterior lighting is also used in high-light vere halogen headlights.

Safety of the vehicle not forgotten. Traveler airbag, utility airbag, latches, eye belts, screen airbags, entree beams, wrinkle zones, and some cogitative features.



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1.6-liter, 119-horsepower I4 engine armed with the Filmmaker Fiesta 5-speed exercise transmission and a 6-speed pistol sending offered as an deciding.

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2011 Ford Fiesta Automaker launches voice control service for smartphones

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President has released a new use that allows drivers to essay the apps on their smartphones using say commands patch in their vehicles.

The autonomous SYNC AppLink delivery instrument be debuted on the 2011 President Fiesta and can be installed into the vehicle using a USB adhere.

Formerly installed, it can introduce to the Apple iPhone, Blackberry by RIM and Android-based smartphones to forecast drivers to verbalise commands that standard the apps on their handset.

To way a ambulant app, drivers can mold a fix on their direction wheel and say "Transplantable Applications", followed by the cant of the app they recognize to actuation and use.

Using Pandora, one of the premiere SYNC-enabled apps, drivers can create and choose stations, bookmark songs, and think thumbs up/thumbs perfect commands, for representative.

Chirrup use OpenBeak and Stitcher faculty connexion Pandora as the low figure apps disposable on the tableware (all getable to download from the Apple/Android/Blackberry app stores in the forthcoming weeks), though a Ford spokesperson confirmed that additional apps instrument be supplemental soon, along with more vehicles that reenforcement the subject.

Ford intends to display the system at next assemblage's CES, an supranational consumer engineering tradeshow held yearly in Las Vegas.

The maker give connection its competitors specified as Audi, Mass Motors, Hyundai and Toyota, extension crosswise triad of the direct's "TechZones" - the Galvanic Object TechZone, the Uninjured Utility TechZone and the Emplacement Based Services TechZone.

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2011 Ford Fiesta Coupe

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2011 Ford Fiesta Coupe

Another thing I hate about traveling on the freeway, beside the traffic jam, is the cabin noise within my 2003 Honda Accord (about 70 dB at 65 mph). A long afternoon ride from a hard day at work requires a moment of quietness. Maybe, I may have to trade in my car for the new 2011 Ford Fiesta. Ford engineers not only designed a fuel efficient car but also achieved low cabin noise as well.

 

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 Ford engineers measured the noise level in inside the 2011 Ford Fiesta in a wind tunnel at 80 mph on the highway. They recorded cabin noise inside the 2011 Ford Fiesta at 25.4 sones, a unit of perceived loudness (very subjective to individual judgment). In comparison with the Honda Fit and Toyota Prius, and both of those cars received a 27.6 and 26.2, respectively.

 

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You can think of one sone is equivalent to 40 decibels at 1kHz, a unit of sound pressure level. If I had to approximate (very rough estimation), 1 sone = 40 dB at 1kHz, and we add three decibels every time we double the amount of sound, we would get roughly the following:

1 sone = 40 dB

2 sones = 43 dB
3 sones = 44.7 dB
4 sones = 46 dB

 

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 The phon is more closely related to the decibel, which a phon is also a unit of subjective sound loudness. You can convert between phon and sone. If you estimate that decibel and phon are the same you can convert between decibel and sone. It is also important to note that decibels, being a logarithmic measurement as you see in the formula below, means that the perceived loudness of 20 decibels is twice that of 10 decibels.

 

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 Here is a forumla if you want to try it yourself:
a sound of x sones = 10 log[sub]2[/sub] x + 40 phons
a sound of x phons has loudness 2[sup](x – 40)/10[/sup] sones
To give a better picture of noise levels, here are a few examples of noise level scenarios. Your quiet living room is about 22 decibels, a jack hammer running is about 110 decibels, the noise on the freeway is about 90 decibel, your high-end computer runs at a full load with all the fans is about 55 decibels, and your car alarm is about 125 decibels.
Usually, small cars have higher cabin noise than bigger cars due less material used to help dampen the noise.

 

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“A smaller car can pose challenges for noise and vibration control.  You have smaller spaces to work with, and there are always cost and material concerns to keep the car affordable,” Pintar said.  “With Fiesta, we started with an unusually rigid structure that helps prevent rattles and then enhanced the global noise and vibration package to harmonize with a revised chassis, tire tuning and the revolutionary PowerShift automatic transmission – a key factor in allowing Fiesta to deliver up to a projected 40 highway miles per gallon. Small-car buyers don’t need to compromise a quiet cabin to enjoy top fuel economy.''

 

2011 Ford Fiesta

Here are a few thins that Ford engineers used to in the Fiesta to help reduce the cabin noise:
• Acoustic-laminated windshield, reducing wind noise
• Wind tunnel-optimized side-view mirrors, reducing wind noise
• Stiffened door modules, reducing the potential for rattles
• Rear-mounted roof antenna for less wind noise and improved aerodynamics
• Wind noise-optimized grille
• Additional sound-absorbent material throughout the cabin for a quiet interior
• Revised door seals for reduced wind noise
To achieve a more quieter car cabin, the Ford Fiesta was built on a more stable B-car platform with high-strength steel. It also features a quiet PowerShift transmission. This transmission is based on hyper-efficient manual transmission technology, not only provides the convenience of a traditional automatic, but also improves the interior quietness in Fiesta.

 

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2011 Ford Fiesta Review

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When I wrote the first drive impressions of the 2011 Ford Fiesta and promised a full review soon, I had no idea that TireKicker would be taking an unexpected two week vacation...but we did and now we're back and item one has to be to fill in the blanks left by the early look at this very significant car for Ford.

The basic first impressions (a quantum leap forward for American small cars, a serious threat to future Focus sales until we get the Euro-spec model of the Fiesta's bigger brother) all hold true.

But I see I used the word "roomy". I was so eager to get behind the wheel that I neglected to sit in the back seat. After I posted the first drive, my 5 foot 11 son sat back there...or tried to. It wasn't pleasant. And it wasn't much better for my 5 foot 4 daughter. That large trunk that I mentioned came at the expense of rear seat legroom. And while none of the cars in this class (Toyota Yaris, Nissan Versa, Honda Fit, Chevy Aveo) are limos, some of them...especially the Yaris and Versa...are better.

                        

Coincidentally, I had a Yaris sedan the same week, and was able to drive them back-to-back. While the Fiesta dazzled with its newness, edginess and content, the Yaris had more rear and front-seat comfort, a quieter cabin and a smoother ride.  And it was a few hundred dollars cheaper, too...staying under $19,000 ( The Yaris had the Sport package, a $3500 option that adds alloy wheels, spoilers, foglamps, leather trimming, power everything and an upgraded audio system) while the as-tested price of the Fiesta hit $19,600 (base for the SEL sedan is $16,320).

Gas mileage was a wash....the Yaris delivering 32 miles per gallon in an even split of urban street and freeway driving, the Fiesta 31.

                      

Honestly, both the Fiesta and the Yaris are way out of the target zone when their stickers get that close to $20K. You can get Corollas, Sentras and Civics (not to mention the 2011 VW Jetta) for that kind of money.The base Yaris sedan starts at $13,365...the base Fiesta at $13,320. That's where the battle in entry-level sedans is likely to be fought.

But will the sedans be the main focus? The Fiesta that makes the biggest splash visually is the five-door hatchback...and the base price for that is $15,120...a big step up, especially when you consider the Yaris 5-door hatch starts at $12,905 (lower than the Yaris sedan price).

The Fiesta leads the class in style...leaving the frumpy Yaris in the dust both in terms of exterior and interior. But these are entry-level vehicles. And while Europeans have a keen understanding of the term "premium compact", the Fiesta's going to have to make a value argument to drivers from the land of Wal-Mart. That could turn out to be a very tall order.

UPDATE:  We've now had a chance to drive the 5-door Fiesta...in Blue Flame metallic, like so:

It's the same strengths and shortcomings as with the sedan above, but this time, Ford sent an SE model. And that brings the value equation back into line. The base price for the 5-door SE is $1200 less than the SEL sedan, at $15,120, as mentioned above. And the options list was kept to a minimum: Rapid Spec 203A (SYNC, 80 watt premium audio system, a sport appearance package, crusie control, 15 inch painted aluminum wheels and front parking lamps with black bezels) for $1,245...Ambient lighting and Sirius Satellite radio packaged together for $370...and heated front seats for $195.

With destination charges, it addes up to $17,605, but there's a "Rapid Spec Discount" of $490...so the bottom line works out to $17,115.

EPA estimates say 37 highway/28 city. 

At this price, it's worthy of inclusion in your shopping.

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First Drive: 2011 Ford Fiesta SEL Sedan

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Hype is a dangerous thing in the car business. Too much advance buildup can result in a big letdown when the real car finally shows up. And the Ford Fiesta has certainly had a big advance campaign...nearly a year of special events allowing access and even seat time...none of which yours truly was able to attend.

Well, Ford has put the real deal in my care for a week...and after 24 hours and 100 miles, I'm ready to say this much: They have not over-promised.

The Fiesta is a revelation...a glimpse into how good our friends in Europe have it when it comes to small cars that aren't penalty boxes. Not only is this more than a worthy competitor for the Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit and Nissan Versa, I don't see how Ford is going to sell a single Focus from now until they bring us the European version of that model.

                   

Roomy, decent power, great gas mileage (thanks to a six-speed automatic)...and a huge trunk for its class.

Admittedly, Ford sent a loaded version of its top trim level. Being a pre-production car, the window sticker is blank where the prices go, but building one out to these specs on Ford's website produces an as-equipped price north of $19,000....and that's pricey for this class. I'll be very interested in driving lower-spec five-doors.

Meantime, six days and untold miles to go...followed by a full review right here.

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OMG: Ford Says Fiesta SYNC Will Run Twitter

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Just what entry level drivers should be doing...Tweeting at the wheel. But Ford says SYNC will make it safe.

Okay.

Details from The Detroit Free Press.

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Why You Should Want To Review Cars

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For 26 years, my favorite piece of automotive journalism has been Brock Yates' "Escape From Baja" in the July 1983 Car and Driver (you can download it as a full-color .pdf here...and you really should...scroll to the bottom of the linked page and click on the image).

I mean, really...what could be more fun than 9 frequently inebriated American writers and a photographer driving 8 midsize sedans through inhospitable territory, Biblical weather and (in the case of one of the cars) halfway through a cow before abandoning the trip...and more than $100,000 worth of loaned press vehicles...south of the border (where current press loan documents specifically forbid taking testers)?

Well, it's been a heck of a run, but Brock and the gang (including David E. Davis, Jr, Don Sherman, Jean Lindamood (Jennings),  Rich Ceppos, Larry Griffin, Csaba Csere and P.J. O'Rourke) have slipped to #2.

Not having BBC America, I missed Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear review of the Ford Fiesta until Jalopnik posted it today. If you haven't seen it, trust me...it's worth the 11 minutes it will take to watch it...and the hour you'll spend watching it again with friends. It's epic automotive journalism and great TV.

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