Motoring: Ford Fiesta

03/12/2008 01:20. “ch brings me to our test Ford Fiesta: £15320. As an impecunious friend pointed out, you could get a massive new Skoda Superb for that, or indeed,” // Belfast Telegraph

30/11/2008 07:08. The anti-car lobby can never win its argument until it begins to understand that here in the West the car is not a tool. It is not a white good. It is not an alternative to the bus or the train. We do not buy cars like we buy dishwashers and toasters. It’s not a decision made on cost or practicality and it certainly has nothing to do with the environment. Otherwise everyone would have a Hyundai Accent with a three-cylinder diesel engine. Or a bus pass.

The reason we don’t is that cars, here, are status symbols, they are penis substitutes, they are cherished members of the family, they are heart-starters, they are art, they are sex, they are glamorous, they are cool, they are something you probably don’t need. But, my God, you want one so badly that it hurts. Giving up your car is... // Times Online