Originally Posted by
SuburbanTurkey
Are the UK versions not plagued with the transmission flaws that are notorious in the US versions? My fiance owned a Fiesta that was bought brand new. She traded it in after she had a third transmission rebuild with less than 30,000 miles on the car. Actually, I think she had two rebuilds and one brand new transmission put in, all under warranty. Apparently there was a design flaw that resulted in transmission fluid leaking onto the friction plates causing serious slipping. It was a widespread problem with the Fiesta and Focus cars that used the automatic dual clutch transmission.
Also software issues. My niece's Focus decided while she was in the middle of nowhere on a road trip to just go ahead and disengage both clutches.