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“I’ll be sad to see the back of the Fiesta, far more than the Focus, Mondeo and Galaxy”

I’ve been asked a few times over the past few weeks how I feel about Ford’s decision to kill the Fiesta. And I think ‘glum’ sums it up as well as anything, as glum as I’ve been about any industry news in well over a decade and, let’s face it, there’s been plenty of late.

And of course some of it is because I’ll be genuinely sad to see the back of the Fiesta, far more than the Focus, Mondeo, S-Max and Galaxy which are also for the chop. For the past dozen years or more, it’s been the best small car on sale and,

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