the mrs has got a phase 1 zetec s awesome little car handling in my opinion as good and will be a little quicker and reliable than the xr3 pretty good on fuel depending on how you drive it would reccomend them to anyone we bought ours with 34k on the clock and have been really impressed with it always run it on fully synfetic oil and it has done about 46k now only thing that went was the heater control vave and was 27 quid from fords