For $2,499, This Is A Festiva You Might Actually WantS  There's
always a party at Ford, it's only the venue that changes.
Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Festiva represents a party sort
of like our political third parties in that no one really wants
to come. This one may be different, but will its price have you
wanting to party on?  The laggardly replacement in the U.S. of
the Fiesta with Festiva joins a litany of European cars
supplanted by models built in places with more favorable
exchange rates. Prior to this switcheroo, GM replaced the tasty
German-built Opel 1900 with the Japanese Opel by Isuzu, and
hoped no one would notice. They did. After the fact, VW move
most of Golf and Jetta production for the U.S. from Wolfsburg to
Puebla Mexico, lest they become Deutsch-marked as grossly
overpriced.  It was the switch from the brilliantly compact and
swathed in European sensibilities Fiesta with the plastic
chrome-laden Escort that was perhaps the most egregious piece of
product replacement. Actually the Esco