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Retail price when new $13056
Purchased during February 1994
Estimated Valuations - Tuesday 21st November 2006
------$1800-2200 - private sale
------$1600-2000 - trade in value
------$3100-3720 - dealer price
After finding out these figures, I rang the insurance company - RACQ - who covers it for the comprehensive policy - they advised that our car is covered for the "current market value", which is normal insurance practise/policy - so if the worst happened and the car was a write-off, we would receive an amount within the "dealer price" as above - as a matter of interest, the premium on our last policy was $401.45, and this expires on the 8th February 2007

Remember the original Mazda 121 Fun Top from the 1980s?
That car lived on - minus the fun (as well as the Fun Top sunroof) when Kia picked it up from Mazda and started building it for Ford as the WA Festiva
Ford half-heartedly brought it in during the early '90s to counter the freefall in small car sales to light cars like the Holden Barina, Daihatsu Charade and - ironically enough - Mazda's excellent 121 "Bubble"
Next to these rivals, the WA model didn't have a chance, with its lacklustre 46kW 1.3 engine, iffy build quality, ill-sorted steering and handling characteristics and very-'80s styling
Still, it proved to be a useful test-bed for when the bigger (but not necessarily better) and far-more fashionably designed WB Festiva burst onto the market during 1994
Looking back at the Festiva, only one word really springs to mind, but that's unpublishable here
So here's another: cheapness
There are much better baby cars around

With its once unassailable Laser small car under serious attack from the light car segment below, Ford turned to its South Korean affiliate to provide it with a low-priced entry-level salvo
The WA Festiva was a first generation 1985-1990 Mazda 121 built under licence by Kia
Although affordable, its ageing design, flimsy quality and sloppy dynamics put it behind progressive rivals like the 121 “bubble” and Holden Barina
Both the three-door Trio and five-door “Festiva” were powered by a lacklustre 46kW 1.3L “4,” coupled to either a five-speed manual or three-speed auto