Fiesta: Spanish for Party

By Tim Quirino Friday February 26, 2010

The Fiesta is also one of Ford’s top selling cars worldwide. This year, for the first time in North America since 1978-80, the Ford Fiesta (6th generation) will be speeding through our roads to the delight of geeks like us.

Now I mentioned “us” because it involves me directly. As it turns out, yours truly (@bigredtim) was chosen to be an agent for Chapter 2 of the Fiesta Movement along with one of the city’s most animated blog contributers – Michaelangelo Ilagan (@mikeyil). Together, we’re “Team Geekadelphia” and we’ll be blogging, ustreaming, tweeting, foursquaring, and youtubing our adventures for the next 4 months!

Here’s a rundown of the Fiesta Movement, if you’re not already familiar with it. Basically Ford is giving us a car for 4 months. While I do hope that they give us a red one like we asked, we’re just really excited to jump in and drive. We get to lifestream the experience, enjoy all the sweet onboard gadgets, and enjoy 4 months of Ford paying for our gas expenses (who wouldn’t love that?!)

Now, along with the car, we’re also required to complete missions every month. These mission could be anything from “depleting a full tank of gas in one long drive” to re-enacting the legendary Leroy Jenkins meme from WoW with 4 of your closest friends.

Mikey and I have a lot of ideas for how we want to spend our 4 months with the car, and a lot of it basically involves us taking advantage of the awesome people we know… turning them into our youtube studio props our cohorts in our quest for Adventure Capitalism. Here on Geekadelphia you’ll be able to see a full list of our exploits in the form of a weekly rundown, and additionally when something completely amazing occurs.

We asked for a Red one.

Stay tuned on www.fiestamovement.com and right here on geekadelphia.com as we begin filming our first weekend with the Fiesta starting tomorrow as we fly out to Detroit.

One last thing before I forget – we’re definitely having a fiesta to celebrate the arrival of the Fiesta somewhere in Northern Liberties in the coming weeks. We’ll keep you posted on that too!

Related Links:

Mikey on Twitter

Tim on Twitter

The Official Fiesta Movement Site

About the Author

Tim founded Geekadelphia with Eric Smith in 2007. Now a multimedia designer @ QVC & Creative Director @ Big Red Tank, he writes from time to time but mostly just administrates and designs for the blog. By night, he romps around Northern Liberties. When not bowling, designing, or eating a ton of food, he can be found with his amazing girlfriend or hanging out with his pet rabbit. When she's not in town, he plays a lot of video games, and pretends to be a rock star in his underwear.

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3 Comments

Annie Heckenberger on Friday 26, 2010

well, at least I won’t have to see Mikey checking into his audi on Foursquare anymore. Congrats guys!
Mikey on Friday 26, 2010

HEY! I never check into my own Audi. Check with Britt, the mayor.
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