1995 fiesta si

[fiestasi]

[HoTWire]

Welcome... any plans,.. I guess you've just passed your test or are learning.

[fiestasi]

No bud wifes car, still learning
after some skirts and wheels

[Thrasher]

Is that a 1.6 or a 1.8 ?

a mate of mine had a 16v 1.8 orion/escort Si, a belter of a car....

[twinspark]

Sorry, but that's not retro, it's just an old shed.

[dubbedup]

twinspark said:

Sorry, but that's not retro, it's just an old shed.

Not a very nice welcome...

Not my cup of tea but these are guarenteed retro status, but not just yet, MK2 Fiasco's yeah, but I don't reckon the Mk4's are quite there yet.

Remember lusting after an SI, just after I passed my test though ;D

[daverapid]

Bit harsh ....most of our cars are old sheds, incuding mine! I'm no Fiesta Mk3 fan myself but this one is 11 years old and with some mods could have potential I reckon.

[Odin]

I'm not a fan either, but I reckon something along the euro look lines would work - cleaned and slammed on some wide 13s.

As for old sheds, I'm a shed-roller and proud.

[daverapid]

Ah...is that a Mk4? I get muddled up with Fiesta Mk's after 2! The later few shapes look like facelifts of the Mk3 to me, apart from the very latest Focus wannabe!

[Adam]

Thats a mk3.5. A face lifted version of the 3.

Adam

[robmajorca]

Well that was a warm welcome The guys come on here because he likes what he sees and instead of welcoming him with open arms and grabbing another enthusiast from the "Barry" brigade some people want to curse word him off because his car isnt "Retro". Total wibblepoo!! I can name umpteen rides on here that aint Retro to me, purely because I don't think they are old enough (not from my generation) but, as has been said over and over again, its not the car or, in many cases its age,its a style and thought.
A 95 Fiesta is no more than a cosmetic make over of a MK2. The shape is pretty damn close to it and it was another good marketing exercise from Fords in being able to keep an old design relatively fresh.
If we knock this car than we may as well knock a 92 Sierra, yet we don't even tho the last Sierras were suitably dfferent to the early models to be easily identifiable.
I really didnt think that this forum would have auto snobbery on it...........
PS: I know that everybody is entitled to an opinion but nobody is entitled to be downright rude.

[rmad]

NO to skirts!

Now, about that Kia/Mazda 121 over the road.....
;D

Oh, and welcome to the board.

[twinspark]

Some cars have retro cool stamped all over them even when new. You just know they'll get a cult following as they age.
Unfortunately, the MkIII Fiesta isn't one of them.
There's absolutely no redeeming features about the MkIII / III.5. They rot profusely, they have frankly antiquated ride and handling, they look like the mutant offspring of a 205 and MkII Golf.
The interiors are uninspiring and shoddlily thrown together.
Need I go on?

Maybe, one day, in 10 years time, they will be seen to be retro. As they are at the moment, they're just cheap sheds bought as budget runarounds.

An Si isn't even a decent base model to start modding. It was a runout special to shift MkIII shells as the MkIV was on the horizon.

Of course, this is just my opinion, but they're definitely not in the spirit of the board.

[spazdaguy]

Wrong. You don't appear to be in the spirit of the board.

[twinspark]

OK, then, tell me what's 'Retro' about a shed of a Fester usually seen driven by unemployed chavs on council estates?

An RS1800i is cool, an RS Turbo is almost cool, even an XR2i has redeeming Retro appeal.

An Si is just a cheap shed runout special. No more no less.

[tonycocacola]

i don't think it matters what model you use for a basis for a retro project.
it doesnt matter that you, or i for that fact like it, its still got scope for retrofication.
i don't think skirts are the way forward however.
some wheels and a sensible lowering will bring that car smack bang into the "spirit of the board".
those are my thoughts anyway.

welcome to the forum si.

[arthurbrown]

I disagree.
There is a 'line in the sand' and that line has just been crossed.

If you are going to 'retro-ify' something that is 'on the cusp' or 'borderline' (i.e. something from the pits of bargain basement motoring), that vehicle should have some redeeming characteristics in it's own right.

The Mk3 Fiesta is a shockingly bad car - built to the lowest possible price. Nasty styling, vile interiors, rattley engines and a quite shocking propensity to rust into oblivion whilst doing nothing specatacularly well.
Go out and try one. Have a good walk round it, see how 'pleasing' it is. Then compare it to a Peugeot 205, a car that is so well designed and pleasurable to drive (even with lawn-mower power) it's silly.

This 'cop out' that anything can be retro just by saying it is or placing some 'xyz-style' tag on it is, or because 'I think Retro as a state of mind and therefore my car IS...' is frankly b*ll*cks.

I hope that you don't take offence, Si, but retro it ain't, and won't be for a very long time. But don't go running off... have a nose round the board and get a 'feel' for what things are about here. Never know, might inspire you to do/buy something smart

[reanimation]

Welcome, I hope you don't get the wrong impression mate. I wouldn't say its retro, although my 91 Sierra isn't strictly speaking, more borderline. having said that i did buy it as a daily 3 years ago. I would just encourage some coice mods, probs not including skirts.

My girlfriends dad bought a mk3 van that had them bumpers on, I really liked it when he got it and immediately saw the potential (and the petrol savings he'd be making).
Of course he only bought it for work and now its a full on builders shed!

Hope you enjoy the place mate...

[HoTWire]

Its threads like this that make me want to shut down the forum,.. and right now I'm -! !- <- this close to doing it because its giving me more and more hassle.

What the hell is wrong with you people that can't express yourself in a reasoned and mild manner. No of course you can't its the internet where either you have to agree 100% with a point of view or you are the enemy that needs to be destroyed without pity.

Sure this car isn't retro,.. its a fair way from retro right now. Neither was my Mk3 Golf,.. still with suitable touches it could look pretty good.

For the comments of a Mk3 Fiesta being an old shed... I drive a car so revialled in its day that there are barely 20 of them left in the country.

If someone comes on here with a car you don't think is retro, don't attack them, applaud them for coming on here and talking to us,.. then point them in the right direction.

[twinspark]

Thing is, it's a slippery slope.

Once we get people coming on here posting pics of mid 90s Fiestas with skirts and wheels, the board will slide into nothing more than a forum for Max Power / Fast Car / Redline readers.

If the owner of the Si had bothered to actually read the board before posting, he'd have known that Retro Rides isn't the place for him.

This, obviously, is only my opinion.