Keyless Ford Fiesta...

[rich p]

...it may be a crap car but at least you don't have to get your keys out of your pocket. What a pathetic selling point for an advert.

 

[Archie_tect]

...as you watch your car disappearing up the road.

Clueless Ford.

 

[cyberknight]

 

[Norm]

We've had that system on a couple of cars in the past and I'd say it is one of the best options you can get. Doors open when you grab them, the car locks when you push a button on the handle, you can't lock your keys inside the car... it's just excellent.

The only downside might be driving somewhere with a passenger then getting out of the car to catch a train with the passenger driving your car back to the office, which is fine until they want to start the car again. Or, at least, I'd imagine that would be annoying, I'd never do something as silly as that. Especially not around Southall in 2008. No, definitely not, I wouldn't do that.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Probably a good thing I would just be bothered if it broke and what it would cost to fix it. A guy at work had loads of grief with a Renault Megane's system messing up.

 

[Dayvo]

...it may be a crap car but at least you don't have to get your keys out of your pocket. What a pathetic selling point for an advert.

Oh, I don't know: no more pi$$ing in the lock on a cold winter's morning.

 

[Norm]

Probably a good thing I would just be bothered if it broke and what it would cost to fix it. A guy at work had loads of grief with a Renault Megane's system messing up.

If it messes up, it should just default to the same sort of remote locking that you get in most cars now. However, I have never failed to be impressed by Renault's ability to amaze with their incompetence.

Oh, I don't know: no more pi$$ing in the lock on a cold winter's morning.

That could be the highlight of your driving year if you are a Fiesta driver.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

C'mon rich, this is quite clearly frustration aggression displacement, what's really the matter?

 

[Crackle]

C'mon rich, this is quite clearly frustration aggression displacement, what's really the matter?

Can't you see. He quite likes to put his key in the lock and the thought of not being able to....well....

 

[biggs682]

my old fiesta i had in 1983 never needed keys to open or start just a good pld screwdriver , so not new idea

 

[MattHB]

my old fiesta i had in 1983 never needed keys to open or start just a good pld screwdriver , so not new idea

It was a universal ford feature. Someone stole my old mkII Capri with an old key.. Probably a shed key actually

 

[Archie_tect]

An old 5p coin opened our old Escort Estate, at least that's what I used.. It got broken into and the thief must have had a mighty shock when the tailgate fell down on him as the hydraulic props had gone completely... how he got out uninjured was a mystery. All they got out of the glovebox was a mouldy apple core and a sticky toffee wrapper which he left on the floor. Sadly they didn't drive off with it.... probably because it wouldn't start unless you knew the right procedure.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

The drivers door lock on my Suzuki Vitara is a bit cranky thanks to being broken into while the original owner still had it. The car is a convertible so the thief could have just unzipped the rear screen to get in and nick the radio, but no, he has to spend time breaking the lock.

They didn't bother replacing the radio strangely enough.

 

[MossCommuter]

Thieves opened my old Fiesta by bending open the front window frame out.

They didn't manage to make off with it, merely push it off the drive and abandon it.

SOCO reckoned the only reason it wasn't taken was that you're modern tea-leaf doesn't know how to work a manual choke and they couldn't start it.