Fiesta CVT Autos

saver2000

I've been driving the same route for around 5 years, it's 45mins each way for 10 miles in stop/start traffic.
I thinking of getting an auto because it's really starting to make my legs/knees ache now with all the gear changing and crawling in 1st.

What do people think with the autos in the fiesta? I think they use a CVT in the mk4 and people say they don't last that long? Would one of these make a good car in this situation?

Thanks.

KillerWatt

Auto boxes are nice, but only in big cars IMHO.

harveybobbles

Fiesta CVT really is !!!!!!...!

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

With a journey like that I'd just cycle it. It'd take about the same time.

Quiet_Life

Test drive a Honda Jazz Automatic..... really great to drive

forgotmyname

Auto's are great whilst the cars under manufacturers warranty, But once out of that they are a
potential liability.

High or low mileage is not good for them, Car mag bought a low mileage audi auto, Owner had passed away.
Within 600 miles the gearbox was dead, They reckon due to lack of use the bearings had not been lubricated
often enough which wore the bearing out.

Goldenyears

harveybobbles wrote: »

Fiesta CVT really is !!!!!!...!

Don't know about before but from 2002 Fiesta autos are not CVT. I sometimes drive my wife's 2004LX 1.6 4-speed auto and I like it.

cardinalbiggles

I had a 1994 Fiat Panda 1.1 Selecta which was the CVT version. It did 0-60 in just over 9 seconds, which was pretty amazing.

I did 130k in that car while I was at Uni and my first job and it only broke down twice. The first time was when the CVT was in getting its oil changed and the garage never put it back on properly and the second when the core plugs went and tuned my engine to margarine.

Still, not that expensive to get fixed and I can without reservation recommend the constantly variable boxes (well the Fiat/Suzuki or was it Subaru... model in the Pandas)