Part two of 2013's hot hatch revival begins here with the
new Fiesta ST
read about the car already
the Clio RS
on price and on power, but it offers more torque and a manual gearshift.
We'll run a head to head with the Clio later in the summer, so for now any decisions between the two on my part are conjecture. We drove the car mainly on the road, because that's where the majority of users will do so. But I wanted to know how the car behaves when you provoke it, so we did some action shots at a track too.
There's only one area of the car's performance that I find a bit confusing, and it's not one you'd normally associate with a hot hatch: low speed ride. Maybe I'm just getting old, but at times I found the Fiesta very crashy at low speed. Why do so-called 'sporty' cars have to do this? It's unnecessary and spoils the experience.
As for the rest of the car, watch the vid to find out.