{"id":5637,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:25:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:25:52","slug":"poll-would-you-be-willing-to-pay-dollar25000-for-60-mpg-fiesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Would you be willing to pay $25,000 for 60+ mpg Fiesta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the new <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2008\/09\/12\/autoblog-drives-the-new-ford-fiesta-in-europe\/\">Ford Fiesta<\/a> goes on sale in Europe, on of the highlights of the lineup is the new ecoNetic model that gets a combined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/fuel+efficiency\/\">fuel efficiency<\/a> rating of 63.5 mpg (U.S.) on the EU cycle. Yes, I know the European cycle is different and testing the same on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/\">EPA<\/a> cycle would probably yield something closer to 50 mpg, but the highway rating would probably still be up around 60 mpg with its 1.6L <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesel<\/a> engine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/\">Ford<\/a> isn&#x27;t planning to offer the ecoNetic when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/fiesta\/\">Fiesta<\/a> launches here because the bean counters don&#x27;t seem to think Americans would pay $25,000 for such car. I agree with Richard Truett at Automotive News that Ford may well be wrong on this point. If nothing else, just having the bragging rights of offering a car that gets 60 mpg or more on the highway would be worth it to Ford, and probably worth $25,000 to a decent number of buyers. In the past, automakers have offered stripped-down small cars that sold in low volumes just so they could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/advertising\/\">advertise<\/a> the low ball prices. Now would seem the ideal time to go the other direction and offer a super mileage version at a slightly premium (no more than what a well-equipped gas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/mini\/\">MINI<\/a> costs now) price. What do you think? Cast your vote!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/09\/12\/poll-would-you-be-willing-to-pay-25-000-for-60-mpg-fiesta\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-09-12T15:38:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the new Ford Fiesta goes on sale in Europe, on of the highlights of the lineup is the new ecoNetic model that gets a combined fuel efficiency rating of 63.5 mpg (U.S.) on the EU cycle. Yes, I know the European cycle is different and testing the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9760,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/9760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}