My First Ride : Ford Fiesta
Remark : For car lovers, you can continue to read. For none car lovers that don't what I am talking, you can just read 1st paragraph and last paragraph.

Today I have my first ride here. This a Ford Fiesta 1.3 liter. I was thinking what? 1.3L nia. Can 'chao' boh? So I am here to pick up Hwang. Peter is taking this photo and Maz is sitting behind me. Looks like they are all laughing at me for being bit Sua Ku. Well in the name of research and arts. I will do it. Oh yea price wise, Euro 42 per day included insurance. Fuel : Benzene (Petrol lah). Our trip today spend about Euro10. So it's equavalent to RM46.

Get to see my bicep? Hehe. Hopefully i am not having to much sausages that put me extra weights.

You see is abit over size. It's good for a person to drive to work in Kulim. That's what my coliq (lady) seating behind me said. Yea.. small we have Kancil in Malaysia what no need Ford Fiesta.
My head clearance just left less then 5cm. So that's the problem I have with Ford's car.

Seat good, I like it's hard enaf to support my lumbar specially for long distance drive. But this trip, we din get to go to Autobahn. I am sure this car going to be a small chick compare with Porsche, BMW, Merz & Audi in Autobahn. We went mostly on country road. Country road that never take me home. Top speed today 110km/h. Top gear today 4th (5th gear available but never get a chance to try).

Steering pretty precise as i ever drive compare to Malaysian cars. Hehe.. tell you secretly, it's better then my Toyota Corolla. At speed, it feels pretty heavy like this car with big tyres. When corner it's pretty 'kuai' and listening to my hands. Tell you more, I am feeling abit like my driving today. So not sure if 3 of my coliqs feeling dizzy boh nia. Normally, when I am fetching up somebody, I am driving like uncle liau.


The dashboard looks pretty ok. Not much cheap plastic. Soft dashboard like the one used for Satria Neo. Functionality wise, the signal is on the left, front light is left. Booth opening with just a touch of button. Steering no audio control. But not much different of the european style. There are CD and those basic items. Today is my first time driving in Europe with manual gear. On the left you can my pants and right you can see my coliq Peter's arm.

Talk about the year shift. Well I have not be driving manual gear for a long long time. The last I am driving is Proton Iswara, Perodua Kenari & Naza Sutera. The shifting is the easiest of them all even though I have minor problem with my familirazation with right hand driving. So easy to shift.

Engine, at 1st gear very under power. I would say it's about like Naza Sutera. But when get to 2nd gear and above, things start to change. The engine best rev at 4.5 rpm above. Forget about the 1st gear, once the car is on the move, switch to 2nd at 20km/h then it's time this car perform. Rev up to 4.5rpm and reaches around 70km/h still pretty sounds ok. For 3rd gear, it's easily goes up to 100 to 110 km/h.


As the part of the journey and reasons for driving. Here we have today. The Stoplen Castle is the top of the hill as we will climb up. The style for Germany ancient king. The castle on the top over looking the township below them. So behind is the town and the square where normally all the peole gather.