The Rumoured Ford Fiesta ST 'Plus' Could Fill The RS Void
We’d been hearing persistent speculation of an incoming ‘Fiesta RS’ when Ford Europe product boss Jay Ward quashed the rumours last month. “We can say categorically that we are not working on a Fiesta RS at this time,” he said when speaking to Car Throttle in January. That’s not to say it won’t ever happen, but it seems highly unlikely on the current generation Fiesta. But what might happen is a hotter version of the Fiesta ST.
Autocar says that it “understands a hotter version of the Fiesta ST is on its way, sold under the name ST Plus” - and we could be seeing it as soon as the Geneva motor show. There’s no word on power outputs, but the regular ST is good for 212bhp and 236lb ft with the dealer-fit, warranty-friendly Mountune upgrade. You’d imagine the increase for the ‘Plus’ won’t be massive - much of a bump in performance and price and it’ll be be too close to the Focus ST.
We’ll have to wait and see if the rumours have any substance, but if the ‘Plus’ doesn’t happen it’s no biggie - the Fiesta ST is already a brilliant little thing with the power it currently has.
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Comments
Peron Automotive will beef up your stock ST’s !
Bastards! Months they’ve teased us about the return of the Fiesta RS.
Of course they’re not! They’re too ‘Focus’ed on something else at the moment.
well that is coming as well ;)
yay now when i go to mexico I’ll have a fiesta with ford
hoonigan paradise
ST plus sounds crap
Sounds really boring
How about ST minus?
Name needs working on, but i do like the concept. As you’ve said the car is brilliant already, but a version with a little more power would go amiss :D
Since I’m looking at one of these currently on the used market I hope they build a “plus” model which should hopefully drive down used car prices. At least that’s the hope
We can wait on day they will do it and we will be ready
What if its just a diesel version of the ST?
But….but…..AWD Fiesta would be badass TT_TT
Would an awd system even fit in a Fiesta
Nah, too heavy for the power output. Upping the power and adding AWD would make it too expensive.