This car is very special in some small size car using.Driving enthusiasts think that plucky, underpowered subcompacts, such as theFord Fiesta, beg for the driver involvement that comes from a three-pedal, manual gearbox. This is one reason we’ve eschewed the Blue Oval’sPowerShift six-speed automatic for the standard five-speed manual in all our previous tests of the car, which is one of our favorites in the class. This review marks the first time we’ve strapped our test gear to a Fiesta fitted with the optional ( $1095) automatic, and the results left us pleasantly surprised.
Unlike the competition, the Fiesta has an automatic transmission of the dual-clutch variety rather than a conventional automatic. This type of gearbox often means clumsy, stuttering drive-off behavior from rest because it lacks a torque converter, which has both a torque-multiplication effect and smoothens the power delivery. Ford’s initial programming when it introduced the car in 2011 also lacked the crisp, rapid-fire shifts we’ve come to expect from other dual-clutch gearboxes, which can be more typically found in high-performance vehicles. In principle, though, we tend to prefer dual-clutch automatics over the continuously variable transmissions ( CVT) often found in small cars.driving mode is ohho.
