As Ford announces the end of the Fiesta, keen fans sing its praises and mourn its loss.
Launched in 1976, the hatchback was the company's first internationally successful front-wheel drive modelIt was created originally as a more fuel-efficient, small car in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis
The Fiesta is currently produced in Germany, although the first model rolled off the production line in Dagenham in 1977George Watson, chairman of the Fiesta Club of Great Britain - of which Mr Scott is a member - is not surprised by the popularity of the car.Image caption,"My dad actually got one of the first Fiestas off the production line, as a salesman," he recalls."I'll never forget - it was a D-reg MK2 XR2 in rosso red.
"I've lost count of how many Fiestas we've had between me and my dad and we've still got two at the moment.""It's a little 1.1LX which I picked up from a lovely young lady - well she was 95 - and just decided to give up driving and she wanted the car to go to a good home," he says.
Mr Watson agrees: "To be honest, the Fiesta itself is still a really popular small family vehicle, if you've got a couple of kids and you don't want anything really too big, and obviously as a first vehicle it's the ideal car.Last month, the Fiesta was still the sixth best-selling new car in the UK with 4,570 registrations, according to the latest data from industry body