Please spec Mrs Sexy a car

SexyGreyFox said:
Exactly, she's a 60 year old woman and I will be able to get two keyboards, two guitars, keyboard stand, a couple of boxes and an amp in it.
I would have preferred something bigger but she is the one who has to drive it 99% of the time and getting it into small school car parks.
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Then bloody add things like that in the requirements!
I will be impressed if you manage to get that kit in it though.
Also worth noting you asked for an upgrade, the b-max is based on the fiesta platform so not am upgrade.
 
Dis86 said:
Then bloody add things like that in the requirements!
I will be impressed if you manage to get that kit in it though.
Also worth noting you asked for an upgrade, the b-max is based on the fiesta platform so not am upgrade.
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She came out with other requirements after I spec'd on here

Easy peasy, it goes in her Fiesta and the B Max is (a little bit) bigger

To be honest it is based on a Fiesta but looks nothing like one and with all the bits & bobs it is a massive upgrade.
 
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Dis86 said:
If you're looking at them then a note is a good shout. As is the jazz.
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We have tried both and there were little things she didn't like about them.
She has now decided make & model - Ford B-Max Titanium but do we go for 1.0 Ecoboost or 1.4?
She is a lady driver with the majority of her driving in a city but would she pushing the 1.0 litre to maximum where the 1.4 would have plenty of room left?
I'm just thinking along the lines of music amplifiers and computer processors but these engines may be different!
 
SexyGreyFox said:
but do we go for 1.0 Ecoboost or 1.4?
She is a lady driver with the majority of her driving in a city but would she pushing the 1.0 litre to maximum where the 1.4 would have plenty of room left?
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I currently have both engines (125bhp 1.0 Ecoboost in my Focus, 94bhp 1.4 in the wife's Fiesta), and both are great in different ways.

The 1.0 Ecoboost is a torquey turbo engine so pulls well from low revs, whereas the 1.4 likes to be revved to make decent progress.

The Ecoboost should have cheaper road tax (£30 for mine), and will produce slightly better mpg (44 vs 41 between our cars which both do similar sort of journeys)

Either would be fine in a car the size of a Fiesta/B-Max, but worth test driving both if you can (or at least another car with the ecoboost e.g. Fiesta or Focus) and see which you prefer.

The 1.4 is an older/simpler engine, and there have been a few issues with the Ecoboost engines, but providing it's had all outstanding recalls done (which can be checked on http://www.etis.ford.com/) then you shouldn't have any issues.
 
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I’d be extremely wary of the 1.0 Ecoboost (ecobang) engine, lots of controversy recently re engine failures due to a poorly designed coolant pipe, many “fixed” by recall but personally I’d avoid the 1.0 engine.

Forgot to add, a workmate had his Focus Ecoboost recalled and supposedly fixed, about 3weeks after it developed a leak which has wrecked the engine and due to its 75k miles, Ford aren’t interested despite the failure being the same pipe that the recall supposedly fixed!

Besides, I’d question the long term reliability of a turbocharged 1.0 3cyl engine, not exactly a stress free engine imo.

For reliability at least I’d seriously consider the 1.4.

https://www.whatcar.com/news/ford-ecoboost-engine-recall-–-what-you-need-to-know/n17972
 
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As said, on paper the ecoboost is a better engine but there have been a lot of issues with them.
 
The small turbo engines run pretty hot, which is probably why they don't seem to last. The 1.6 ecoboost seems better but it also had the cooling issue.

For reliability go big and NA, not small and turbo.
 
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