Fiesta ST or Red/Black Zetec S

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Hello everyone...

Am looking at the above 2 cars to replace a town runabout. Will test drive next week to decide between the two. Any preferences from those that have driven both?

Have been offered ford pcp deals for both. With discounts plus old car as trade in, no additional cash have been offered:
1) ST2, spirit blue - £304 pcm, 36mths,GFV £7.2k
2) Zetec S red - £257 pcm, 36, GFV £6.6

APR 4.3% on both

Has anyone achieved better?

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers

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rehab71 said:

If you PM me with all the numbers you've been given I'll take a look at the deal, if I'm cheaper you might like to buy it from me! I love doing deals for PHers!

I may take you up on that. At the moment I have secured some quotes through the carwow website that are sinificantly cheaper than my dealer. I will keep you posted.

Thanks for feedback received so far.

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Thanks everyone.
Will test drive Monday and update thread with how I get on.

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Dan Friel said:

I went through the same decision.. if I did fewer miles, I would get an ST tomorrow. However, I've now done 15k miles in the Red Edition, and it's brilliant. Great chassis, suspension set up, and one litre turbo engine. I would recommend if you can't have the ST.

Agree with this. Maybe I'm getting old but the st(mountune pack) was hard to live with, even on a 30 min test drive. The damping was non existent - it was jumping all over the place on a relatively smooth B road. In every other way it was subjectively better than the Zetec s, which was still a great car.