And you can cook up your Fiesta with three meaty options:
- bacon stripes over the rear wheels
- bacon racing stripes on the bonnet
- a full bacon wrap (10 stripes layed around the car)
Before you get too hungry, this is a public relations stunt from Ford of America and was delivered with pork-barrelling terms such as: "unlike bacon grease, nothing gets sizzled away from the Fiesta interior."
Ford's pork barrelling got cooking at USA Today, Time and even - well, naturally - Pork magazine with some publicity. "It's no secret that bacon inspires a lot of passion, and that's what the Fiesta celebrates," says Ford Fiesta (US) marketing manager Liz Elser. "Our customers have a hunger for self-expression. Plus, it's just awesome to drive down the road in a piece of bacon."
Ford Australia says it has no plans to ham it up with the car.
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