What do you want to spend? There are nice pioneer headunits for around 100 pounds, which have a jack on the front. Just get something basic if it doesn't matter that much for you, but don't get the super cheap stuff, it won't last.
About holding your foot on the brake, there are a lot of morons in the world, which will think you're moving and slam up your back. So I keep my brake lights on. I also don't want to take the effort of putting on my handbrake so I don't roll back. I hate people who need 5 seconds when the light goes green, they need to turn the handbrake off, put it back in gear and then go.
And I agree to the fact you (Tristan) apparently is trying hard to find stuff to nag about. You might race cars and have a lot of experience, but all I see is a road raging (you seem to fuzz about EVERYTHING) and you seem to think you are a driving god (those people are the most dangerous on the road really).
And a last thing: I NEVER use my handbrake for anything but park my car.
At the moment I think Ford has a lot of his own design. A lot of people say they look a lot like peugeots, but there's an easy explanation for that: they use the same engines, those engines have a lot of trouble breathing, so they need big vents, and big vents are hard to make "different" from another brand with big vents.
When the Fiesta came out, Ford bought a large part of Mazda, that's why the Mazda was the same.
And I never heard of the Mondeo sharing anything from VW, maybe Bosch items and stuff like that..
Weird only you seem to think Ford used VW parts. Only relation I can find between those two, is the old Galaxy, which was the same as a VW Sharan and Seat Alhambra and that was just to lower production costs..
There were only two models where the Mazda and the Fiesta were the same, but oh well..
And the new Fiesta has the same platform as the Mazda 3, but Ford changed a few things before putting it under the Fiesta. So the Fiesta handles better than the Mazda.
I don't get why they promote it in white. It's a fashion color, but it's already getting a bit old really. White cars can look great, but I prefer a bright green or red one for a change!
Same reason why the Scirocco ever existed, or with Ford the Puma (technically same as a Fiesta), I could find other problems but I'm too laizy to do it.
It's just for a different market, reason why we have sedans, stationwagons, SUV's, coupes, convertibles, ...
We understand you're a feminist by now. There are funny pics about guys around too, nobody stops you from posting them.
I don't really agree with laughing with fat people, I'm not super fat, but I am far from skinny, and I can't really help it. It's a neverending circle really:
One day you realise you got too fat, but in my case I quit sports because my achillese tendons or whatever it's called are too short, well, on one foot at least. So I can't sport without a LOT of pain, but because I'm fat, it gets worse, but I can't do anything about being fat because then I need sports but I can't..
But on the other hand, I don't understand how some people just keep eating, paying with their mobility. I don't care much about my health, but barely being able to move at all??
I recently saw my ex at a car show though, and even my friends were laughing how rediculous she looked right now. So my defense mechanism is actually starting to become real