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[Turk]

...so she's bought an '02 KA 
Personally not at all impressed with that choice.
Has anyone anything positive to say about them ?

[tunnie]

No.

Had one for 2 weeks, horrible little sh!t box, noisy, very noisy in fact, go above 30mph and you have to shout at your passenger to be heard.

Accelerator pedal is tiny, they must have run out of plastic when making that. No sound proofing on the doors or anything, so road noise is a huge issue.

I would rather walk....

[Entwood]

...so she's bought an '02 KA 
Personally not at all impressed with that choice.
Has anyone anything positive to say about them ?

They have 4 wheels.

[mathewst]

and supposedly the engine

[tunnie]

and supposedly the engine

Pushrod engine until quite recently too 

[Squealey]

Sorry to go against the general consensus but I brought my son one of these about a year ago, it actually belonged to my brother for two years previously. I think its a brilliant little car.

His is a poverty spec 03 plate which cost me a grand. Its like a go kart to drive, its pretty nippy. I've put a half decent stereo in it and i honestly wouldn't have an issue doing a 300 mile trip in it.

But at the end of the day thats not what it was designed for, it was designed to sit in traffic, get into tight parking spaces and generally do no more than 10 miles a day in town. Personally I think it hits all the right notes.

Just my opinion. Sorry

[Del Boy]

Absolutely awful, had one as a courtesy car before, it nearly got me killed, slow, horrible drive, ugly, small, awful inside. Good at handbrake turns though 

[Entwood]

On a slightly more serious note .. I had one of these as a courtesy car some years back after being hit by a "3rd party". It was just when the fuel crisis began and fuel shortages were all over the place ... only doctors/nurses/etc were guaranteed supplies.

It was almost "nice" to have that horrible, underpowered, uncomfortable roller skate for 2 weeks ... the old 2.3 granada did about 25 mpg around town ...... the "ka (ck)" was doing well over 40 mpg !!!

Only problem was... to get all my flying kit in ... half had to go on the back seat as the boot was so useless !!!

[Turk]

Hmm...just as I thought. A classic "tin box on wheels" then.
A colleague told me he witnessed a KA hitting a parked can just outside his house last year. Very much a 20mph area due to speed humps etc. so no real speed involved.
The KA owner lived just around the corner and decided to drive the car to her house after all the usual exchange of details had been sorted.
Apparently the KA looked like a crab as it went up the road. He was astonished at how badly it had come off considering it was a relatively low speed collision.

[waspy]

Just wait until Ford bring out the Si version

[Boxvictor]

I quite rate the KA as a fit for purpose machine, cheap, easy to drive, easy to SELL

[Kevin Wood]

On a slightly more serious note .. I had one of these as a courtesy car some years back after being hit by a "3rd party". It was just when the fuel crisis began and fuel shortages were all over the place ... only doctors/nurses/etc were guaranteed supplies.

I was driving the Westfield around. No cat. No reason why it couldn't run on LRP, and that was plentiful around here.

Kevin

[Turk]

I had a Carlton with the reversible connector that allowed the same.
Had the roads pretty much to myself. 

[jerry]

Couple of people at work have them and they seem more than happy with them. Guess they do exactly as they say on the tin; cheap/economical and ideal for short journeys and running around town. Everything that the mig is not for really

[jereboam]

They're OK - used to get them as courtesy cars when I had the Mondeo. 

Mind you, one bloke in the car pool I was in occasionally turned up in his wife's Ka.  Won't take 4 grown men comfortably, and begins to get uncomfortable on a 25 mile journey.  Come to think of it, I could have said the same for the Audi A4 or the MG  400.