Ford Fiesta Mk7, B299

The best-driving supermini of its generation, with steering and body control that put larger cars to shame. The cabin is cramped in the back and nobody who bought one for the drive ever minded.

Overview

The B299 is the hatchback Ford Fiesta, built 2008–2017 and facelifted in 2012. 3 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €3,200–€12,000, and 1 of the 3 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The 1.25 Duratec STJA is both the cheapest way in, from €4,200, and the lowest-risk engine of the range, which makes it the obvious starting point. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.

Body stylehatchbackProduction2008–2017
Platform siblingssold in this body onlyFacelift (LCI)2012
What changed at the 2012 facelift
New nose with the larger grille; 1.0 EcoBoost replaced much of the petrol range; Revised interior and infotainment. The engine changes are the ones that matter, a car built in the changeover year can carry either engine, so check the engine code on the block rather than the registration date.

Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 20082011

The 2 variants sold before the 2012 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.

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BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
1.25 DuratecSTJApetrol2008201182 PS114 NmR11€3,200€8,000€4,200Strong buyView
1.6 TDCiT1DAdiesel2008201195 PS205 NmR34€3,600€9,000€4,700Buy w/ conditionsView

Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 20122017

The 3 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.

3 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.

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BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
1.25 DuratecSTJApetrol2012201782 PS114 NmR11€3,500€8,700€4,600Strong buyView
1.6 TDCiT1DAdiesel2012201795 PS205 NmR34€3,900€9,800€5,100Buy w/ conditionsView
1.0 EcoBoostM1DApetrol20122017100 PS170 NmR43€4,900€12,000€6,400Buy w/ conditionsView

Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →

Model-year availability

Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.

Variant08091011121314151617
1.25 Duratec STJA
1.6 TDCi T1DA
1.0 EcoBoost M1DA

● full year · arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2012 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.

Rating map, price against risk

Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.

Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.

cheap · low risk€4k€5k€6kR1R2R3R4R5good-buy price →risk ↓1.25 Duratec STJA: Strong buy, risk 1, good buy €4,2001.25 Duratec1.6 TDCi T1DA: Buy with conditions, risk 3, good buy €4,7001.6 TDCi1.0 EcoBoost M1DA: Buy with conditions, risk 4, good buy €6,4001.0 EcoBoost
Buy / strong buy Buy with conditions Caution / avoidLeft is cheaper, up is safer. The top-left corner is where the value is.

Prices across the range

Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.

Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. ST/RS cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.

Cheapest good buy€4,2001.25 Duratec STJA
Median good buy€4,700across 3 engines
Dearest good buy€6,4001.0 EcoBoost M1DA
Full range€3,200€12,000P10 to P90

Every standard engine · cheapest first · 1.25 Duratec STJA highlighted as best value

€5k€7.5k€10kGood buy
1.25 Duratec STJA€4,2001.6 TDCi T1DA€4,7001.0 EcoBoost M1DA€6,400

at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile

Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these

Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.

Shuddering as the car pulls away, jerky low-speed shifts, and a warning or a refusal to select a gear in later stages. The dry dual-clutch unit fitted to automatic cars wears its clutch pack and its control module, and both were the subject of extended warranty and service programmes. Manual cars are unaffected, so this only matters if the car in front of you is an automatic.
Check: On an automatic, drive slowly through a car park feeling for shudder as it takes up drive, then ask what clutch or module work has been done. On a manual there's nothing here to check.
TransmissioncommonDetectable at viewingevidence: manufacturer60140k km

Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 3 times: ST/RS cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.

Buying summary

Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.

Best value: 1.0 EcoBoost, which is far better than a three-cylinder litre has any right to be. Ask directly whether the coolant recall work was done on any early EcoBoost, because the fault can crack a cylinder head and that ends the car economically. Avoid the PowerShift automatic unless the clutch and module history is documented, since the dry-clutch unit is the most expensive thing here. So check the clutch and the gear change on manuals, and treat a shuddering automatic as a car to walk away from.

Cheapest and dearest in this chassis

The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.

Lowest entry price

1.25 Duratec STJA : from €3,200, risk 1

1.6 TDCi T1DA : from €3,600, risk 3

1.0 EcoBoost M1DA : from €4,900, risk 4

Lowest risk

1.25 Duratec STJA : risk 1, good buy at €4,200

1.6 TDCi T1DA : risk 3, good buy at €4,700

1.0 EcoBoost M1DA : risk 4, good buy at €6,400