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#460099 - 24/08/12 05:54 PM You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST...
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The other half found this on the Fiesta Wiki page, under codenames:

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When Ford of Europe began to design the car, the design proposals were named Iris, Beta, The Deutschlander (from Ford's Cologne studios), Mini-Mite, and the Blue Car (from Ghia). Codenames for the Fiesta prototype included Torino, but it became Project Bobcat.

The shortlisted names for the new car designed by the project Bobcat team (headed by Mr Trevor Erskine) were Amigo, Bambi, Bebe, Bravo, Bolero, Cherie, Tempo, Chico, Fiesta, Forito, Metro, Pony and Sierra.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_fiesta#Codenames

You don't know how glad I am that they went with Fiesta!
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#460100 - 24/08/12 06:00 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: cherie]
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#460101 - 24/08/12 06:15 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: cherie]
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Strange how things turn out. Some of the names I don't think would have lasted 35 years, at least three of them (Bravo, Metro and Pony) would have meant cars from other manufacturers would have used different names later on, and one of them - Sierra - would have meant a car from Ford itself having a different name.

Of course Ford seriously considered dropping the Fiesta name and replacing it with Verve when the Mk7 launched four years ago, but changed their minds and stuck with Fiesta.
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#460102 - 24/08/12 06:36 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: ChrisCumbria]
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Maybe they need to change the Fiesta name - its Chico time!!!!
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#460103 - 24/08/12 06:52 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: EssexChelle]
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Nooo!!! lol
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#460104 - 25/08/12 08:48 AM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: cherie]
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Some of those names are terrible Amigo??
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#460105 - 25/08/12 09:07 AM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: Alex_H]
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I drive an Amigo ST ha ha
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#460106 - 25/08/12 11:22 AM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: EssexChelle]
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I drive an Amigo ST ha ha




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#460107 - 28/08/12 12:10 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: Jodiebizzle]
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It's all about the Ford Bambi ST.
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#460108 - 29/08/12 03:07 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: kinobeSTew]
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It's all about the Ford Bambi ST.





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#460109 - 29/08/12 07:11 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: ROB IS THE STIG]
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Wasnt there a song about cherie
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#460110 - 29/08/12 07:23 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: Adam08]
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"Cherie Cross The Mersey"

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#460111 - 30/08/12 12:33 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: ROB IS THE STIG]
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Oh no, don't you start on the songs ... (ma chérie amour is probably the one you're thinking of) ... kinda get annoyed with my own name at the best of times.
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#460112 - 30/08/12 01:42 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: cherie]
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Can't beat Michelle my belle!!!!!!!

Is there a song about Adam or Rob? No coz they only sing about the best ones!!!!
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#460113 - 30/08/12 03:59 PM Re: You could have been driving a Ford Cherie ST... [Re: EssexChelle]
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