Sorry, LOVED my Fiesta. It may have been a flop because it was only sold here for 3 years or so, but it is still sold worldwide, 30 years later. It was a bit ...minimalist (i.e., I had to buy the glovebox kit with a door), but it had personality and got me where I wanted.
I owned a ‘79 for seven years, and had a variety of bizarre mechanical and electrical problems with it.
I still have one souvenir from that time — a stick shift that decided to simply shear off one day, leaving a half-inch metal stub.
I am not exaggerating when I say that a lot of mechanics simply refused to do engine work on that car, because of the way the thing was packed.
One thing I will grant — it was solid. Back then, cars had real bumpers, and car bodies weren’t made of foil.