'88 F*rd Festiva Autocross/Track/Daily Driver Build

[rusty76]

So you said Kia Pride. Was that the overseas model?

[theastronaut]

Originally Posted by rusty76

So you said Kia Pride. Was that the overseas model?

Yeah, they were sold as the Ford Festiva, Mazda 121, or Kia Pride depending on where they were sold. Ford had Mazda design them and Kia built them, except Japanese market cars were built by Ford in Japan. Japan got the cool stuff we never did, like factory 1.3 DOHC engines (a destroked, high revving version of the Miata 1.6) in the GT, GTX, and GTA models. The sportier models even had dual mode suspension that was switched from inside the car.