New Ford Fiesta SportVan Launches in UK

back in the day we use to call this a hatchback

I saw the normal version at MIMS. And it looks alot better in person than it does in photos, especially in the lime green colour. I guess that this would be a good little run around van for the city.

After stripping "coupe" of all its meaning by making "4 door coupes" and using as argument a century old french language, now manufacturers are keen on destroying what little dignity "sport" has left in the contemporary car naming scheme! Putting "sport" on anything isn't cool, it's like a chick wearing a "I have a big shlong" T-shirt: weird and unnatural! Can we have a bit of honesty Ford? How about just calling it Ford Fiesta Van. Is it that hard!? Is your CEO and/or marketing department payed by the letter with huge bonuses for adding "sport"/"sports" in every name!?

The first ever van that I think I would actually like to be driving around in.

coming to a rear bumper near you!

ShinyG, the SportVan is just the name of one of the trim levels. Its actually called the Fiesta Van, but the SportVan spec includes all those cliche 'sporty' things like front spoilers and sideskirts.

Usually, a van or MPV requires more room and a different styling. I like the new Ford design, I like Fiesta, but I think they pushed things to far with Fiesta sportvan (!?). Let Fiesta be a small people carrier and launch as soon as possible the more roomy Ford B-max MPV (sharing the same platform with Fiesta). And based on B-max Ford could have the small van they want.

Well, English (either British or American) is not my mother tongue, so... let me put it this way: I think that a Ford B-class "SportVan" based on the future B-max MPV would have been more appropiate than one based on Fiesta HATCHBACK.