New Fiesta Beats Volvo XC70 !!!

I watched the BBC Top Gear programme last night. Normally they test supercars, but last night they tested one of Ford's smallest cars, the new Fiesta. It was done a bit tongue in cheek, but overall it was a very interesting piece. The last section of course was typically Top Gear dramatic, they put the little Ford into a what I believe was a British Royal Marine landing craft, and did a beach assault... so Clarkson was sitting in the Fiesta full of Royal Marines and guns and grenades. The landing craft hit the beach and they lowered the ramps. However the landing craft was still in quite deep water the the ramps were steep. Clarkson drove the little Fiesta straight into the sea... even he admitted it was a lot deeper than he thought... the water went straight over the bonnet.. right upto the windscreen..and maybe two or three inches up the windscreen.. it was that deep.. he then continued driving the car.. with marines onboard, through the sea onto and up the beach.. he commented that water was coming in.. but he continued until he reached the beach. Now I don't know if all of this was real.. but if it was done like that.. I find it totally incredible. How did that little Fiesta manage this when my Volvo XC70, totally failed in circumstances which were a lot less challenging????

On the Continent Again..

I saw quite a few more Volvo XC70's when I visited Belgium again last week, new models.

I then was talking to the man who had made my kitchen, as he was running the previous model XC70. He said that this was the last of the proper Volvo's, since the new model was actually built from the Mondeo platform?? Seems like every car is associated to a Mondeo as if it is a bad thing, I thought the Mondeo was very good? Anyway, told him my story about the water, and he was very suprised. He also thought my fuel consumption was very bad too compared to his model - which was also a manual D5.