It's a ford, hence plenty of doubt

The Chavs will be all over this, like a rash!

cheapest by a fair amount

Without doubt?
If it was without doubt the best then there would be no others for sale.

It's a ford, hence plenty of doubt

Is insurance included and road tax in leases?

had one for over a year, brilliant car

Realistically equivalent to £225 a month - still cheaper than the depreciation you'd suffer in buying one. While it's under warranty, I wouldn't concern myself too much with perceived reliability - Ford will be picking up the tab for anything that isn't wear and tear. Just enjoy it for what it is, one of the nimblest little hot hatches of its size. If you enjoy putting your foot down a lot, expect to get 60% of the claimed mpg (same for any modern car with stop-start).

A 1.6 turbo engine in a fiesta and its called ecoboost to make it sound modern and enviro friendly,I call it a rebranded fiesta RS turbo from the early 90s

Turbocharged engines have always been more fuel efficient than NA engines,ford have just added the word Eco to make people feel better about driving a sports car.in the 80's people wanted to have the word turbo on the rear end of their car,now it's not in fashion so Eco boost replaces it.

Oh and if the word Eco is in green then that makes it even more enviro friendly :laughing:

Most of Ford's family cars are avaliable with EcoBoost engines, hardly sports cars.
It's just branding, like Duratec and Zetec, don't get too hung up on it.

why not to take bmw m3 for £149/month???

Utterly pointless contribution to this thread, closely followed by this one.

I think that title goes to the new Clio rs.




I joke I joke

The Chavs will be all over this, like a rash!

I currently own a Y Reg (2001) VW Polo, which is just coming up to 70,000 miles. However, the maintenance costs are now becoming more expensive than what the car is worth.

Having seen a few of these lease deals and not being able to afford an half decent runner outright. I'd like to ask the reasoning behind paying £5407, for a deal such as this over two years, then being left with nothing?!

Would it be suitable, with this or similar deals, for people like me who would only be able to afford a low cost, high maintenance banger outright? Sincere question.

So what ratio of salary is spent on car hire on average?

You'd need at least 40 grand before tax to afford this comfortably right?!

got a polo gti on order, very simular deal to this just under £5000 with gateway2lease very helpfull over the phone/email, would recommend them.

Thank you for your helpful information.

As can be seen from my original post, I'm not one for changing car every few years. My current one was 3 yrs old when purchased outright and my mileage per annum is low. I'm just considering another 5dr hatchback (kids) with low maintenance costs that isn't too expensive.

Just wondering if a lease deal is something that I should consider.

One of the best hot hatches i have driven but Ford has poor customer service.

was in a friends today
1.6 ST 6spd 182 ps

my 2.5l bmw is 192bp

so a lot of poke coming out of that smaller engine...

You make some good points in your post and given me something to consider, thank you!

While this particular offer maybe slighter above my budget, I'll certainly look out for other deals and fortunately the low mileage per year on some wouldn't be an issue for me.

Cheers.

Great car love mine loads, however shifting it next year as I get hit with a hefty BIK charge due to the emissions.
Private lease you won't get that problem though. Decent price in all honesty for a very good car that is fun to drive and has some good features. Biggest problem I have is that at nearly 40, my back can't take feeling every bump in the road like it used to.
Heat added

Corsa VXR FTW :man:

It sounds like your after cheap motoring as an alternative to keeping an old car running (the old way of cheap motoring!) so your in a similar circumstance to me with a 12 year old pug 206. My advice to you would be a lease deal but maybe not one that loses as much as this over the 2 years (unless you really want a sports car). If you want a cheap to run 5- door car you'd be better off with one of the many citroen c1 / citroen cactus deals posted on here. the monthly payments are only a bit less than this fiesta but tend to be between £150 and £400 deposit (depending on admin fee) so by the time your 2 years is up its less per month than this fiesta deal and as they are not sporty hot hatches it will cost you less to run than the Fiesta or your old Polo. But if you do want something with a bit of omph this Fiesta deal is great in that whilst you lose £5,400 over the two years its still less than you'd lose if you bought the car brand new and sold it in 2 years.

​is not about English, i can see that article about ford FIESTA, I mean - I would better have bmw m3 for 149 per month instead of fiesta and offers are available.

Lol that's one bite already...

I'll take 202bhp vs 180bhp and cheaper lease any day. The VXR is quicker 0-60 and top end with both cars in standard form so you Ford boys can dream on :wink:

Have the ST2 awesome fun and sounds superb due to a sound symposer

Real worldthe car gives over 200ps as a 10 sec over boost - meaning here canonly be sold as 182ps but in the USA advertisingat the higher PS

I'm really interested in where you can lease an M3 for 149 a month?

guys an idiot. been trolling all day

driven hard this will return 35mpg around town and provide the biggest smile ever mine does :smiley:

​trolling?
http://www.buyacar.co.uk/bmw_3_series_gran_turismo_diesel_hatchback/deal_320d_xdrive_m_sport_5dr_step_auto_business_media__355581.jhtml
have a look.

​www.buyacar.co.uk/bmw_3_series_gran_turismo_diesel_hatchback/deal_320d_xdrive_m_sport_5dr_step_auto_business_media__355581.jhtml

Not an M3 though is it ?
I like bmw's and have owned a couple but I think this 3 series looks awful from the back

Thats a M sport not a M3... Only a small difference

1. Not an M3. idiot.
2. £150 is before vat is added if you want to compare it to this personal lease. idiot.
3. the bmw linked is 9 months upfront so thats another £1343 + vat. idiot.
4. bmw you've linked is only 6000 miles.
5. you'll want to add at least another £100 for delivery.


real monthly cost of yours is for a lower powered car with less equipment and less miles is around £240 and only first year road tax is included

That's a matter of opinion, I love my VXR and much prefer it over the Ford in looks as well as everything else.

ok, i will go on this **** car and you go on ford fiesta.

Won't look so nice when it bursts into flames.

business customer, 6k pa, 180inc vat.... and not an m3?

You think Ford are fault-free?
It wasn't that long ago they had to recall 15 million cars for the cruise control setting on fire.
Further back you could buy a 4x4 from them that flipped all by it's self and way back they sold a family car fondly nick named the 'barbecue that seats four'.

All car makers have problems, it's how they choose to deal with them that counts.

LOL you got to love the Ford fans.

The new VXR which I have is the same as the Burg/Clubsport in performance and nearly £1500 cheaper over a 2 year lease.

I'm just a fan of good driver's cars, and there aren't many badged VXR. The Monaros, which aren't really a Vauxhall they are Holdens and built in Australia. The VXR220 which is basically a Lotus and that is where it was built. Finally arguably the previous generation Astra J 09- which was pretty good, albeit with better rivals.

That's it. Everything else is pretty much tosh or no match for it's rivals. The Insignia is passable I suppose. The Meriva and Zafira cobblers, the horrible Astra H, the pants Corsa D and the truly abysmal beyond belief Vectra. Ford's equivalent models have been better for quite a long time now.

I don't own a ford but I'd rather spend £1500 for the priviledge to not sit in corsa, or any vauxhall for that matter

It's not the extra horses that makes the difference, it's the handling.
Unless yours has the Performance Pack which is unlikely on a lease then it's not comparable.

I take it you mean taking weeks to even acknowledge there's a problem as people's cars spontaneously combust with their kids in them. Yeah you're right Vauxhalls handling of this has been despicable.

Weeks is nothing in the grand scheme, car companies cover things up for years if it saves them money.

Come back and tell me it's nothing in the grand scheme of things when your car bursts into flames with your family in it, when the manufacturer has known for ages it was likely and sat back and did nothing.

Link?

Lol i've had a couple of Fords and never again so personal taste is everything. The interior of the new VXR is superb which has never been the case in any Ford i've been in.

It was the deal on here back in June with Aston Vauxhall and other dealers too which went hot however I know someone who just got almost an identical deal by haggling and just paying £10 a month more than me.

The handling on mine is fantastic without the LSD and slightly stiffer suspension, the performance pack is £2400 and unnecessary in my opinion for the price vs the ever so small difference it makes - really only going to bee needed for track days. I've come from a couple of Imprezas and the VXR is surprisingly good as I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near as good as i've found it.

Yeah everybody has three or four hundred pounds a week to pay a hire company indefinitely for an equivalent car, with no guarantee they will see a penny of it back. And thats on top of the hundreds of pounds a month they're paying for the Zafira itself.

If you are in a position where you wouldn't miss £1500 a month then good on you. I'd imagine most people on here, like myself live in the real world and couldn't do what you suggest. These people are running these Zafiras because they bought a car to get them and their family about, and have no other option. It's not because they aren't "proactive". Meanwhile Vauxhall know full well they could catch light at any time, and are doing nothing about it.

Pretty sure you're trolling, and I've just bit, but your post is ridiculous.

http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/vauxhall/corsa/vauxhall-corsa-vxr-vs-ford-fiesta-st/1360019

Nuff said. This is a great deal.

And thats the lower spec version.

Game, set and match.

I think you've been taking LSD, fantastic handling on a vauxhall?

​sorry to everyone- i didn't tried to upset any one

Average monthly cost of paying finance for a relatively recent Zafira plus hiring another similar sized car.

Was a response to post 66, where Jamie reckons everyone driving Vauxhalls incendiary device on wheels should just park them up and drop £3-400 a week on a hire car while still paying for your own. Its called being proactive apparently.

Its probably more actually. This is £67 a day.

​Thinking a 320D M-Sport is an M3 pahahahaha!! Only a slight difference mate! Amazing.

You obviously need to try a VXR instead of a Zafira.

Fantastic car to drive, easily better than the corsa vxr, the seats are great but the rest of the interior is horribly dated and mostly hard plastics, the controls are small and fiddly too hence why I decided against one earlier in the year

£400 a week to hire a car? I said reasonable, not a Maybach.

Whatever the cost it's less than the loss of a family member or friend, you can't put a price on it. Use the bus if money is an issue or find another form of transport.

People put their families in rafts and travel across the seas, hide out for days in containers or cling on to trains to keep their families from danger and you're complaining about a few hundred quid that will no doubt be recoverable.

Talk about first world problems.

There's the difference, my experience of them is on a track. I tend to keep cars a while so if I was buying one, I would pay for the PP, same as I would pay for the Mountune on the Fiesta.
Leasing is different though, extra options are just money down the drain.

TBF I'm looking forward to having a go in the new Corsa VXR next year, just a shame they didn't go the whole hog with the Adam.

Lol what a complete load of old b0ll***s, don't know what they've been driving but it's obviously not the same car as me. After nearly 1500 miles in under 3 weeks in mine the exhaust note has now come into it's own (sounds great) and not once have I experienced the slightest bit of body roll and i've tried believe me, it was quite the opposite thinking this thing doesn't roll in the slightest.

Anyway i'm voting hot on this deal as it's undoubtedly the cheapest price for the ST3, I just fancied a bit of a play with you Ford lunatics :smile:

i looked and couldn't see an M3??

a 1.6t petrol putting out 200bhp and weighs less will easily beat a 160bhp diesel thats heavier..

Again, pretty sure you're trolling so this will be your last meal from me before you're put on ignore.

People who buy Zafiras tend to have big families (they're not the weapon of choice for a young single guy, and they're certainly not a fashion statement) so would need to hire something of equivalent size. For that you're talking £3-400 a week. A Citroën C4 is £67 a day. The school run, football practice, Brownies etc don't stop because you've bought a tinderbox when you thought you were buying an MPV. Again, people have NO OTHER OPTION but to continue to run these cars, waiting for it to serve them well done.

For most people using public transport for these things just isn't feasible because it's just not up to scratch in this country, and most people can't easily source an equivalent source of transport as you suggest. First world problem or not (we live in the first world in case you were unaware) Vauxhall are the ones who should be proactive (to use a favourite term of yours) and recall all affected cars immediately, rather than burying their head in the sand.

​if you have a moderate monthly income you might be surprised at what you can afford new car wise with finance. The deal can be structured to suit you. small deposit bigger monthlys or vice versa. Or a nearly new car with finance? same principle.

i've not failed so badly in life I've had to own a vauxhall. Tried an ampera though which was surprisingly good, but like the monaro and vx220 the best vauxhalls aren't even vauxhalls.

Absolute nonsense. You don't pay a one day rate if you are hiring a car for a couple of weeks.
£313.60 to hire a C4 7 seater over two weeks. Keep the receipt claim it back off Vauxhall, put it on a credit card if you have to.

You really need to take a look at yourself in the mirror, you are an embarrassment to man kind.

You're criticising car companies for doing the same thing that you are suggesting.

I really do believe you're trolling this deal, no one can be that cold.

From a Citroen owner, that is painful. :smiley:

Hahaha you need to try harder to insult, this is just a toy for me and not my main car :smile:

I was just thinking the same, owns a Cactus LOL!

There aren't many brands I can look down upon :wink:

So best part of a grand including the finance you're still paying for the Zafira with no guarantee Vauxhall will pay you back. Even someone as hard of thinking as you must realise that's a ridiculous amount to pay monthly for a car.

It may surprise you to learn there are people who don't have credit cards. Crazy but true.

Just looked in the mirror. Loving what I see, so cheers for that.

You should try the real world jamie, even just once, you might just like it.

0-60 in 6.9 seconds from a 1.6 fiesta. That's the same speed as a Porsche Boxster 2.5L!

Link?

​www.buyacar.co.uk/bmw_3_series_gran_turismo_diesel_hatchback/deal_320d_xdrive_m_sport_5dr_step_auto_business_media__355581.jhtml

People might not like the shape, ford or a number of things to do with this car bits all personal taste. But the spec says it is.

I am interested in a lease car, but tbh I would just be using for work and shopping Specs etc go over my head being a woman haha. Can anyone give me some indication as to which dealers do the cheapest leases, I don't do a huge amount of milage so this should not be a problem. Any help woul be greatly appreciated x

you might be better off going into a main dealer ie ford and ask about the pcp deals I don't know if ford still call them ford options

Eh?
What on Earth are you talking about?

Eh? What on earth are you talking about? Of course there are other similar cars that are on sale, manufacturers have tried to replicate what Ford have made, but failed miserably. You only need to see reviews where this car will no doubt be No.1 in every single one to know this.

Sorry I still fail to understand what you are saying.
Are you suggesting that this car is better than other cars in it's class in every single way? And that people who buy other cars in this class simply have not become aware yet of it's all round invincibility?

Because earlier you mentioned specs, which this car certainly does not win at

Yes, it is better in every single way.

Oh dear me :disappointed:

Red & Black edition Fiesta is £150pm lease at my local Ford (Vospers). looks mint

I got the corsa vxr from Astons brilliant service from them £149 down 23x£149 . The corsa is a fantastic car and the recaros are so much better and comfortable than a 2013 focus st1 that I had . I prefer the corsa than the st focus so unsure as to how the fiesta stacks up .
Would be happy to pay £3600 over two years for st fiesta but certainly not over £5000 and that's being objective . Sure it's a good motor . Just sold my 2012 m sport 5 series BMW whilst it's worth something and banked the money . Leasing all the way for me now . Enables me to have a decent car at very little money

Just to point out that when you go for a quote it says +vat not including vat on the £158.40 price, anyone gone for this?

Hot! That's a good price.

Has anyone mentioned that you could get a 15 year old Rover for less yet?

If they haven't, they will soon...

I would search through something like contracthireandleasing.com

You can compare the prices from all the different suppliers for whichever car you are interested in.

Generally (but not always) the broker deals are cheaper than whatever a dealer will offer you.

Only if I'm getting a 2nd series.

hey,

anyone know the delivery time on this car?

Hey isn't that oddballjamies car. :man:

So if it enabled you to have a decent car why did you lease a Vauxhall.? :man:

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm looking for some advice. I'm looking to get a fiesta st, I currently have a work van so the miles done in the fiesta would be low and it would just be a bit of a weekend toy. Should I go for a lease deal like this or pick up something used (could pick up a used st2 for approx 11-12k)? Would the depreciation on a used st after 2 years be greater than this 5.5k lease?

good deal! I managed to get an st2 for £4056 (139.99 per month @ 6+23) all in with riverdale with 8k per annum and 6.26p per mile excess milege, so might be worth giving them a call too

Have come across this, hope my reply is still relevant.. You might save a bit more buying and selling but then you'll have the added costs of MOT, Tax and the bill for any repair work that needs done. A lease on a brand new would give you a fixed price over the term which many prefer. personal preference really.

cannot understand it?! it is the car costs 5500?? Don't get it