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Ford Fiesta (Mk1)

Ford Fiesta (Mk1), 1976-1983

Produced
1976–1983
Code
Mk1
Designer
Tom Tjaarda
Red 1980 Ford Fiesta L three-door hatchback photographed from the front three-quarter angle at a car show

Image credit

File
File:1980 Ford Fiesta 957 HC L - 20445599040 (cropped).jpg
Author (attribution required)
Kieran White
Licence
CC BY 2.0

Body style

Powertrain

Ford’s first small front-wheel-drive car, styled by Tom Tjaarda and built at four plants across three countries from launch. That was a scale of commitment that signalled how seriously Ford took the new European supermini class.[1] It went on to be the ninth best-selling car in Britain in its first year and third by 1981, before the Austin Metro and a wave of new rivals ate into that lead.

Wikipedia’s own performance table for this car gives 0-60 mph times and mph top speeds, not 0-100 km/h or km/h; this entry deliberately leaves those schema fields empty rather than convert between the two. A 0-60 mph time is not the same measurement as 0-100 km/h, and treating them as interchangeable is exactly the kind of error this site is built to avoid.

Overview

Manufacturer
Ford
Produced
1976–1983
Model code
Mk1
Designer
Tom Tjaarda
Segment
B-segment (Europe) / Subcompact (US)
Positioning
Economy
Assembly
  • Almussafes, Spain (Ford Valencia)
  • Dagenham, United Kingdom
  • Cologne, West Germany
  • Saarlouis, West Germany

Dimensions

Length
3,565 mm

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Width
1,567 mm

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Height
1,360 mm

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Wheelbase
2,286 mm

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Kerb weight
Not yet available

950

Trim · 1976–1983 · Valencia

Power
33 kW

Normal-compression 950, published as 44 hp, converted at 1 hp = 0.745699872 kW. No torque figure is given in the article. Top speed is published as 85 mph and 0-60 mph as 16.6 s; neither is stored here, since the schema's speed and acceleration fields are km/h and 0-100 km/h respectively and those are not the same quantities as the published mph figures.

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Torque
Not yet available
Kerb weight
Not yet available
0–100 km/h
Not yet available
Top speed
Not yet available

Published only as 85 mph (0-60 mph table). Not converted to km/h because the article's own top-speed figure is itself measured against the mph scale, not independently verified in km/h, and 0-60 mph is not the same quantity as 0-100 km/h that this schema otherwise expects for acceleration.

Fuel economy
Not yet available
CO₂
Not yet available
Drag coefficient
Not yet available
Frontal area
Not yet available
Displacement
957 cc

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Boot volume
Not yet available
Seats
4
Engine
inline-4 · Valencia
Drivetrain
Front-wheel drive

1.6 XR2

Trim · 1981–1983 · Crossflow

Power
62 kW

Published as 83 hp, converted at 1 hp = 0.745699872 kW. No torque figure is given in the article. Published 0-60 mph is 9.5 s, not converted here; see the base trim's note on why 0-60 mph is not stored as 0-100 km/h.

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Torque
Not yet available
Kerb weight
Not yet available
0–100 km/h
Not yet available
Top speed
Not yet available
Fuel economy
Not yet available
CO₂
Not yet available
Drag coefficient
Not yet available
Frontal area
Not yet available
Displacement
1,599 cc

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Boot volume
Not yet available
Seats
4
Engine
inline-4 · Crossflow
Drivetrain
Front-wheel drive

Sources & confidence

Every figure above carries a status. Nothing on this page is estimated without saying so, and nothing missing has been filled in with a guess.

Last verified
2026-09-03
Review status
Compiled from cited sources

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References

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