Yikes! This guy ran through three Festivas in five years, putting more than 220,000 on each of them. That's at least 660,000 miles, or 132,000 miles a year. What the heck does HE do for a living? He's also very lucky. The cars had poor crash safety performance.

Frank, I was driving as a bank courier for seven years, the last two were 220,000 miles each year.

I started out with an Escort which couldn't handle the 18 hours/day, constantly overheating. Then two new Festivas. The only problem I ever had was with the A/C. Then had to get the new Ford/Kia Aspire - awful, no P/U, terrible mileage. So traded it in for a used Festiva.

I love my festiva, i bought it with 202474.8 miles on it and the only problem I'm having with it is the carborator. Amazing! to help me get better gas mileage due to the bad carborator I'm going to buy a kit which runs around 40 bucks and put it in myself. It also needs a float for the corroborator, I knew that just by looking at the gas reader. You cant go wrong with a festiva. it will be a one -2 day job just ajusting the choke. but this car will get you35 miles a gal-and the tank holds 10 gal-350 miles a tank in town. and i bought this little thing for only $650.00

Help, someone vandalized my son's 1988 Festiva - all the windows are broken completely out! Is it fixable? Any suggestions? He is a struggling student and we can not afford much, please offer suggestions, thank you,

Mom

Here's a suggestion to the person whom got the windows broken: buy new windows. Got no money? Well then you can't get windows, can ya'. What kind of suggestion were you possibly expecting?

Anyway, I got my Festiva in 2004 for $350. It's a '91 model-overheated 4 times because of a water pump leak-locked up once and has about 160,000 miles on it right now-still runs.

Simplicity is a failsafe for dependability.