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.

Ford Fiesta hatchback (B299) · photo FORD FIESTA 5 DOOR HATCHBACK (B299) China by Dinkun Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
| Body style | hatchback | Production | 2008–2017 |
| Platform siblings | sold in this body only | Facelift (LCI) | 2012 |
Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 2008–2011
The 2 variants sold before the 2012 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.
| Badge↕ | Engine | Fuel | Years↕ | Power↑ | Torque↕ | Risk↕ | Issues | Price band↕ | Good buy↕ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.25 Duratec | STJA | petrol | 2008–2011 | 82 PS | 114 Nm | R1 | 1 | €3,200–€8,000 | €4,200 | Strong buy |
| 1.6 TDCi | T1DA | diesel | 2008–2011 | 95 PS | 205 Nm | R3 | 4 | €3,600–€9,000 | €4,700 | Buy w/ conditions |
Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 2012–2017
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.
| Badge↕ | Engine | Fuel | Years↕ | Power↑ | Torque↕ | Risk↕ | Issues | Price band↕ | Good buy↕ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.25 Duratec | STJA | petrol | 2012–2017 | 82 PS | 114 Nm | R1 | 1 | €3,500–€8,700 | €4,600 | Strong buy |
| 1.6 TDCi | T1DA | diesel | 2012–2017 | 95 PS | 205 Nm | R3 | 4 | €3,900–€9,800 | €5,100 | Buy w/ conditions |
| 1.0 EcoBoost | M1DA | petrol | 2012–2017 | 100 PS | 170 Nm | R4 | 3 | €4,900–€12,000 | €6,400 | Buy w/ conditions |
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.
| Variant | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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.
Every standard engine · cheapest first · 1.25 Duratec STJA highlighted as best value
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.
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