Ford Ka vs Mk3 Fiesta - I review how Ford's budget baby compares to its supermini parent

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Ford Ka vs Mk3 Fiesta - I review how Ford's budget baby compares to its supermini parent

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I take a look at two cars built on the same platform - the 1989 Ford Fiesta mk3 and the 1996 Ford Ka with its new-edge styling. How do they compare to each other?
Twitter: @sionhudson

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@FlorinC1984 Жыл бұрын

I died a little bit everytime you said "kay-ay".

@aston-martin-internationalist Жыл бұрын

As you've mentioned in other videos, companies spent more to make the base models even more poverty. On the Popular, because of the lack of parcel shelf, the rear boot panelling either side is completely different to the Popular Plus or L which had the parcel shelf so if you ever wanted to retrofit, you'd need to buy those too, not just a parcel shelf.

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

Yup. It’s this kind of thing I absolutely love about base models

@charlieamey3045 Жыл бұрын

Base model didn't come with a nearside wing mirror? Was this legal back then bit budget talk about poverty spec 😂

@joao.brigato Жыл бұрын

Your video is really amazing, full content of and great to watch. But drives me crazy rearranging “kei ay” instead of the correct “Kah” (saying like the end of Fiesta)

@maxeluy Жыл бұрын

The KA with the 1.6 Zetec Rocam is a pocket rocket!

@user-hm1yl9np4j Жыл бұрын

damn, ka is such an iconic car

@oliverstemp9132 Жыл бұрын

Gingercators? 😅 great video, so interesting to see them together

@TPerry2828 Жыл бұрын

Great video! I could watch well-made comparison videos like this all day 👍

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

That’s extremely nice of you, thank you

@utkuyucel Жыл бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed the video. I wasn't expecting you to take them for a ride, but when you did, I was very happy.

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@MrBrownEscort Жыл бұрын

Great video Siôn, Ireallyenjoyed. My 1.3 mk4 Fiesta is a sensation to drive, the gearbox is probably the best I've ever used. The handling is crisp and steering is perfectly weighted. Basically everything you reported about the KA. Ford got it spot on with this generation and I hope more folk start to appreciate them.

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right Chris. My grandmother had a mk4 which my parents and I drove for a while after she’d gone into a care home. It was a revelation to me how nice it drove!

@deans6571 Жыл бұрын

Great vid. I had a red MK 3 Fiesta (my second car) just like the one in this vid back in the day (my first car was a MK 2 Popular Plus). I went on to own a metallic green 1.7 VCT Ford Puma which was my favourite Ford! 👍🏼

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing the memory 😊

@julianstechsation Ай бұрын

And I find it quite intresting comparing that to the MK2 Fiesta (I have a 84 model), love that things have changed but not everything. Its similar to the MK1 and 2 Clio - espacially regarding the R5 and theier facelifts. (My Mom owns her Dads 97 Clio and my Uncle used to have a 99 Clio) :) Thanks for your videos !

@timtube1663 Жыл бұрын

I love this! I remember when Russ got his KA in around 2007. Have to say the base spec Fiesta looks the best of all Mk.3 Fiestas. The KA tried its best to jump start my Picasso this evening.

@tomfoster9924 Жыл бұрын

Never knew the Ka was a kind of brother to the mark 3! Great video! 🙂

@alifloydtv Жыл бұрын

It always makes me chuckle gently when you southerners say 'Kay Eh' - for us Scots, 'Ka' and 'car' are very different sounding words, so I don't think I've ever heard anyone up here bother with two syllables :)

@ianfrost3529 Жыл бұрын

Ford really got there act together with there chassis around the time of the ka and mk4 fiesta puma mondeo the mk6 escort handling was a big improvement over the mk5 and 5.5 then the mk1 focus took it to another level. With the KA I was always a little disappointed they didn’t offer it with the lovely 1.25 zetec engine

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

Yes, I wonder what it would be like with that power plant

@ianfrost3529 Жыл бұрын

@@MorselsAndMotors I very nearly did. My exe’s mother had a 1.25 mk4 ghia which failed mot on corrosion. That fiesta was the only mk4 I ever saw with leather interior And we had a ka with a knackered engine. It was one of those jobs that I never got round to doing.

@roberthill7802 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos. Always entertaining. Loving the comparison video

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you like them!I

@sunnydhaliwal9012 5 күн бұрын

6 min in. You forgot to mention there no clock in the fiesta. Whiles model above popular had cdigital clock with led imobliser light

@roooooooory Жыл бұрын

This is a great video, Sion! You can really see how far you've come as a presenter and in the editing since you started

@roooooooory Жыл бұрын

Only gripe is how you didn't spend 15 minutes on the unmentionably gorgeous KA clock!

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

Hahahah 🤣

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

Aww that’s very kind 😀

@cliveprocter3698 Жыл бұрын

Bit late to this but interesting video. The MK3 fester was from when Ford was really penny pinching down to the very last 1/2p. It's sole mission was to match the 205 and no more. The 205 being 6years old by then meant it was already out dated when released. The KA was from the time under Richard Perry-Jone were the products were designed and engineered to be better than everything else and good to drive and own.

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

Yes you’re absolutely right: the mk3 is still in that 80s Ford mentality of each trim level is like a badge of honour

@ionlyhaveonedayleft7885 6 ай бұрын

Would you consider comparing this KA version with the 2012 one or even KA+ one

@darrenwilson8042 Жыл бұрын

My Mrs drives a Matiz. Its her second one. Ownership of the two spans nearly 20 years and 80k miles and as you might guess she loves them. She would tell you that a Matiz offers more space and is as nippy as both these and she loves them. Downside? Emissions. Reflected in road tax costs as its only slightly less polluting than a nuclear power station lol

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, that is a surprise. No wonder you don't see many of them any more!

@darrenwilson8042 Жыл бұрын

@@MorselsAndMotors Her Matiz is only £20 less to tax for a year than is my diesel Duster

@paultasker7788 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the great Ford handling only came in once the mark 4 was released.

@mfitzy100 Жыл бұрын

Love those Little Kas. Shame they’ve all Disappeared

@Tom-bp6no Жыл бұрын

The KA seemed to rust much quicker than the older fiestas for some reason.

@paultasker7788 Жыл бұрын

Is the Ka not based on the mark 4 fiesta? Or maybe it is called 3.5 (whichever it was it was launched about 1996??)

@MorselsAndMotors Жыл бұрын

I think the mk4 still used the same basic platform as the mk3

@paultasker7788 Жыл бұрын

@@MorselsAndMotors I think so. However the suspension on the mark 4 was vastly improved. Remember at the time people being amazed by how well it drove. The mark 3 polo won the award for best supermini in 1994. Remember being very proud as my mum owned one of the first demonstrators but then got beat in the first group test against that mark 4 fiesta due to the way the fiesta drove. The polo later became mine when it was 8 years old as my first car and when I went in my aunties mark 4 fiesta for a trip I agreed. It was better than the polo for how it drove. Much sharper handling, Much quieter at speed and that 1.25 yamaha engine was a peach. Shame they never put that in a Ka. Meanwhile I found the mark 3 fiesta rattly. We had mark 2 polo face-lift at the time J plate, fuel injected, automatic choke, and our friends had a mark 3 fiesta with carbs and a manual choke and that classic tapety Ford sound. I preferred travelling in the polo.