FORD FIESTA GLOBAL ACCOLADES


 

Fiesta Highlights

‘red dot’ International Design Award

  • Designed and developed as Ford’s first
    “One Ford” global car, Fiesta first launched in Europe last year, most recently in Asia and will launch in North America next year.
  • In Europe, the Fiesta name has long been synonymous with outstanding driving performance, design and value.
  • Today’s Fiesta takes the model’s three-decade heritage to a new level with its eye-catching kinetic design and acclaimed driving dynamics.
  • With European sales in January and February totaling 59,600, Fiesta is the best-selling Ford model in Europe so far in 2009. Since debuting in August 2008, sales have totaled 120,300.
  • Ford Fiesta was awarded a prestigious ‘red dot’ design award for international product design.
  • The 28 leading designers and design experts from 19 countries called Fiesta one of the most stylish cars in the world, stating the design as “innovative and dynamic.”
  • The award showcases the fact that Fiesta delivers style, together with outstanding quality that consumers desire.
  • The red dot design awards, one of the world’s largest design recognition programs, are presented annually by Germany’s Essen-based Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen.

 

 

“Car of the Year” – What Car? Magazine

Additional Awards

  • What Car? magazine, Great Britain’s leading source of new-car advice, named the new
    Ford Fiesta its Car of the Year 2009.
  • What Car? editors praised Fiesta for its stylish design, performance and fuel economy, saying it is the most complete car they’ve ever tested.
  • Editors also admired Fiesta for being practical enough to be used as a family car, fun enough for a sports car and stylish enough to make the right impression, all while being affordable to buy, cheap to run and kind to the planet.
  • What Car? judges also named Fiesta as the top car in the “supermini” category, stating no other supermini got close to its ‘look at me’ factor.
  • 2009 Car of the Year – The Sun Motors
  • 2009 Croatian Car of the Year –
    Croatian Car Association
  • 2009 Hellenic Car of the Year –
    Journalists from Autobild, Drive Autocar,
    To
  • Woman’s Car 2009 – Hachette Filipacchi Editorial Group
  • 2008 Scottish Car of the year –
    Association of Scottish Motoring Writers
  • The Best of the 2008 Geneva Show –
    Most Significant – Autoweek
  • Top Gear, Car, Car & Driver and 4 Wheels
  • 2008 Croatian Car of the Year –
    Croatian Car Association
  • 2008 Best Supermini – What Car? magazine