Advantages: Great economy, luxury trim, cute car Disadvantages: A bit slow
been a tiny bit bigger without any cost to space and this would have made them useful. There is a glove box (a dashboard tray with a pull out cover) that will hold? well, we use ours for gloves and thats about all it will take. Some rear storage for the car breakdown info and a CD storage case
and that's about it.
The instrument panel info is speed, fuel, time and nothing much else - what else would you need? I sometimes think a temp gauge would be nice as I like to know the car has warmed up before I start to speed up my driving in the morning. However, the heater is a good indication of this in winter. I think the minimalist approach actually makes this car smarter. This is what the Ka is about.
In the luxury you get a good set of extras, power heated mirrors, leather trimmed steering wheel, CD Radio (Ford own design), 2 speakers ...
mfhome 04.01.2004 (22.04.2006)
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Advantages: Handling, reliability Disadvantages: lack of luxuries.
I had this car when my Ford Mondeo was getting a new rear axel and it did the job very well. OK, the take off speeds weren't that good but the handling was great. I don't own the car anymore as I gave it to my friend who had just passed his test and I got back my Mondeo. Sometimes I wish I ad kept it and sold the Mondeo as it was very unreliable. It started first time every time even below 0 degree's. It was VERY good on petrol. About 40-45 miles per gallon. In the month that I had it I never needed to top up the oil or anything. The only problem was the tracking, but looking at the left front tire it had been curbed quite a lot by the previous owners. I would recommend it to anyone. My friend still has it and is very happy with it. ...
jmurray01 20.05.2009 (02.10.2009)
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The FordKA, officially an icon for Ford. The Ka was introduced in 1996 and my girlfriend bought the 1998 KA1 model as her first car. It was obviously a 3-door model (the only option) but it was in a weird colour, it looked like brown, grey and silver mixed into one, but it was listed in the logbook as grey.
The KA was originally designed to only have black plastic bumpers so in the event of a minor crash they could easily and cheaply be replaced. This model has the black bumpers, but having done 72000miles upon purchase they had done a feint grey colour and although the black bumper/trim polish is easy and cheap to buy from Halfords or anywhere, I would recommend (if you can afford it) to buy a colour coded one as they just look better and don?t have to be repainted even if the car doesn?t need it- as the black ones do.
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Azz4711 14.09.2009
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