Ford Fiesta Active (2018 - 2022) X 1.0T EcoBoost 125PS 5d Owner Review

I wish I'd never gone anywhere near Ford - I was lured by the reviews and the cars handling (which is very good) but everything else about the car is cheap and nasty. I hate the 3 cylinder 1.0 engine with a passion - it shakes, rattles and rolls (adequately). There are so many odd vibrations that it generally adds up to something very unrefined. The reviews call it 'character', I call it poorly engineered and I don't want this sort of 'character' in 2019/2020. I wish I'd gone for a 4 cylinder engine with a balance shaft and not this 3 cylinder engineering experiment. The power it produces is adequate, it's not lively or punchy. The gearing is ridiculously long in order to attempt to attain the fuel consumption Ford claim (67mpg), reality is 31mpg around town and 48mpg on a run - which isn't that bad but nowhere near the claimed 67mpg. You'd only get that if you lived in Holland with the wind constantly behind you. I get a new rattle with this car every week or some other creak. My local Ford dealer in Plymouth is awful to deal with and I hate going in there to try and get any work done. This will be my last Ford.