Feisty Ford Fiesta has a car load of finesse

Take a seat, belt up and prepare yourself for a real blast as the new Ford ST200 hits the road. Declan Colley looks at the many wow specifications

If its predecessor is anything to go by, then the new Ford Fiesta ST200 is going to be a real blast when we get our mitts on it in the coming weeks.

The ‘old’ Fiesta ST was a stunning tour de force of a ‘mini’ hot hatch — it must have been because Ford has sold 30,000 of them across Europe — and without doubt the class of a small field, but the new one gets 10% more power and 20% more torque with 200 bhp and 290 Nm from a specially calibrated 1.6-litre EcoBoost petrol engine. It should be a wow.