Now that the weather is getting warmer, cruising the local car shows makes for a cheap date. Held almost every day or evening of the week through September…
- Hard clutch from the beginning
- Low FE of 13.5 kmpl on highways even with sedate driving
Duratec Engine:
The punchy Naturally Aspirated 1.6 L petrol engine and the hydraulic power steering makes it a good affordable drivers car. The engine is smooth, very responsive and revvs freely all the way to its red-line. Ford offered the base variant - Fiesta EXI in 1.4L petrol engine with 68PS power. Glad that Ford provided the full cover for the engine.
Gear and Clutch: The 5 speed gearbox is very slick with short gear ratios. The clutch travel is medium, however, feels very heavy. My Fiesta is still running on the factory fit Clutch assembly; though I feel, changing the clutch assembly might enhance the overall driving pleasure.
tonight, hundreds honor the murdered nephew of a maryland congressman. a local safeway store fires an employee after a discriminatory rant at two customers. plus, a drunken moment one man will never live down. in less than 30 seconds, he forced one city to drain 8 million gallons of water. a very good evening to you. i m jim handly. jim and doreen have the night off. we begin with the weather. another line of storms is moving. let s go straight to doug kammerer in the storm center. right now, we don t have any severe thunderstorm warnings. but these are very strong storms with a lot of lightning associated with these storms. you can see on the picture we have a lot of cloudiness. you can see that rain right around the district and then back toward the west. a couple of zooms, right now moving in towards the fairfax county area. fairfax county has been hit pretty hard over the last hour or so. now moving in through the montgomery county towards the district as well. the
64 degrees at the congressional country club. 100% humidity. anticipates a slight fall this morning anticipate light fog. scattered thunderstorms today. warm and muggy. the weekend forecast is coming up. now to lisa baden. brandywine rd. is closed at ridge road because of debris. looks good on route 5 301, no issues on 228 or 210 or heading into oxon hill. the beltway is good in oxon hill and across the wilson bridge. moving across the oxoat occoquan river looks good. northbound traffic is moving nicely. back to you. thank you. it was a dark and stormy night in the d.c. area with lightning. chance of more severe weather later today. the storms were blamed for our colleges across the region. a lightning strike may have led to an all-star in clinton last night. it was heavily damaged. no reports of injury. the rain caused flooding in fairfax county as well. authorities had to close prosperity avenue after a car got stuck in the water. for the latest on the weather a