Benni

Could you live with one for 3 years? Because if I decide to get one which I want to next year I will have to keep it for 3 years. I like them an awful lot and I can imagine there alot of fun. But as an everyday car?

What are your thoughts, Cheers, Benni.

GazzaG

It drinks alot mate, love the cars tho

Benni

How many miles would you get for Ł20?

james15678

i have one, i get about 250miles out a tank, which is about Ł35. thats being sensible and silly in it. i love it, comfortable and it aint to slow either

matt p

Got to take one to national day and fookin loved it!!

All it had was a resonating exhaust, cams, dream science and a couple of other bits and it really flew.

I was plesently suprised how much fun it was to drive, although there was three of them all having a play on the way there

Just to add Jamsport are running in a ST at the moment that has just had a 2.5 conversion done

Even though it is limited to 4000rpm at the moment it came past me like i was going backwards so when that all run in and mapped on its bigger throttle bodies, it will make an awsome car for sure!!!

Buy one

Matt

tregmatt

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my sons got one and it goes really well the only thing is its gutsey on fuel thats all hes had done is a induction kit and a bluefin but i dont think much of the bluefin so its going to jamsport to see what they can do to it but the car drives nice and i think its a lot of car for the money when driven right it can put most faster cars to shame

PinkRinse

Ok so I'm biased but as an every day car (which mine is) its really good. I've owned her from new (24/03/05) and she's done over 40,000 miles and hasnt put a foot wrong yet.

Some people think that it has a slightly disappointing performance despite the fact it has a 2L engine. I can sometimes see what they mean but I found once I had mine and run her in, after a few thousand miles the car really started to loosen up and change. Some have also expressed disappointment at how hard it seems to get more than 20-30bhp gains from mods without some serious tinkering but as an every day car how much difference would I feel between mine and a standard one? Not much crawling through traffic in London!

I can easily get 300+ miles out of a tank of fuel. Some say V Power is good for mpg or BP Ultimate. I find the good old "what Pinky can afford" & some moderately sensible driving does just as well lol.

Some reckon the tyres arent all that but I think the P Zero Neros are just fine. Some of our members (male ones at that...funny eh?) go through them at a rate of 9,000 miles buuuuut because I "drive like a granny" mine lasted well over 23K lol. So if you wheel spin it every where etc etc expect to go through tyres!

Mods are slowly slowly coming out now so if you want to mod it, you can. There are plenty of exhausts out there, cams, induction kits, lowering springs, coilovers, big brake upgrades, lights (e.g. halos) etc etc and companies like Jam Sport, Torque of The Devil, Pumaspeed and Pumabuild to help you out. I'd steer clear of Bluefin and go for Dreamscience though. You can either get the Strategem which has a few generic tunes based on a car that had just an induction kit & aftermarket exhaust or get the DSF3000 for a custom tune to the specific mods you have like cams, exhaust etc (but if you have a Strategem you can then get a custom tune done because they're the same units).

I'll have to say that if you do mod it (esp with an exhaust) motorway miles can get a little "boomy"/loud. Plus people have said its begging for a 6th gear but cruising at 70 in 6th on a motorway, is not what its about. If thats whats ya wants then get a Focus ST! The Fiesta ST is about the twisty roads!

Lowering it is almost a must (the handling improves no end) but get a cushion for those speed bumps and potholes. Its tracking can be knocked out quite easily too, especially when lowered so expect to be at your local wheel allignment centre at least once or twice a year.

Errrmmm... I cant think of anything else but feel free to ask

matt p

Blimey good right up!! ^^^^^^^^^

PinkRinse

I need a lie down and a cuppa tea...

matt p

And a deep breath after all that

Glenn_

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Get 1 bought i think they r a nice lookin car n i bet they handle well on a B road.

chink

i lke them me, seems to be a lot of tuning parts out aswell

Charlie Chalk

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They go well on track, This one seem to corner very well, and Simon from PF mag even had a few good words to talk about it, Was very impressed

PinkRinse

lol that's my friend Chris' car. Where was that pic taken?

Charlie Chalk

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On track!



Rockingham this weekend just gone, I was passenger in Linsays S2

PT

Beni I think im right in saying your about 19 arent you. Three years you'll be 22. Cossie age at 21

Charlie Chalk

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Im 23 and love my Mini... I don't want a cossie yet.. I know it'll be a drama

PinkRinse

He goes out on quite a few track sessions, including Ford Fair this year. Yeh his is lowered but I cant remember for the life of me what on.. either just springs or coilovers.

Charlie Chalk

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Went well

PinkRinse

Oh its got cams, either his Green Cotton filter or BMC induction, Milltek Evo manifold & exhaust, Dreamscience and lowered on Spax springs

matt p

Hahahaha

Morgans car!!

He took me out for a blast in it, what where has the flint grey saph just gone??

Oh yeah its now behind us

He is a proper funny fucker to

cozzfather

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benni there is one slightly accident damaged in the midland autotrader
for under 3 grand,at that price you could fix it and do some mods and
it would still be a cheep motah

Mr S1

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My neighbour has one and he loves it. Smart looking cars too, his is white with the blue stripes over the top. Looks

st_owner100

I think the little Fezza's done me proud in the time I've owned it. Like PinkRinse, i've owned mine from new (also a March 2005) and we've both watched a great raft of tuning oppurtunities arrive onto the scene since. It's the type of car that's definitely got enough power and sorted handling to keep you smiling if you keep it standard, and Ford have left it mild enough to get a group 13 insurance category. It does drink a lot more fuel than I expected but i can live with that. 300 miles form a 45L tank is possible
Like a lot of people on the fiestaST owners club, i took advantage of the tuning developments and spent a lot of cash on the car, and in my opinion made it better. I took the usual route of a wheels, induction kit & full exhaust system (though didn't go for the off the shelf manufacturers but got one made by a respectable motorsports system company).
I lowered the car at first with Eibachs but then moved to an adjustable Gaz road kit. Then came my best purchase for the car, which was a Quaife ATB diff, totally transformed the car. Interior-wise, the front seats have been replaced with Recaro grp bucket seats and the rears taken out. I've done so much more to it but not gonna go through it, all. Just saying that there are so many possibilities.

Recently a very popular thing to buy for the car is a dreamscience remap, which i have been very impressed with. It's relatively new compared to Bluefin but the Stratagem generic tune definitely shows solid results. Other than that, a few people like JamSport have been pushing the engines with various cam kits, pistons/rods etc. Even replacing the standard 2.0 with a 2.3 Duratec and ported heads and other engine work.

I think the car's still got plenty of life in it, even with the new Fiesta over the horizon. it's still one of the best looking cars Ford have made in a long time, and is showing no sign of ageing yet!

Rossco

Any one got the spec/pics of the ST that was racing in the Ford Saloon Championship on Sunday, that foooker flew.

st_owner100

Well, it's not really much of an ST anymore. I saw it at the Autosport show and it's actually a YB powered 4wd. Loved watching it on sunday, it's phenomenally quick!!

Benni

I'm not buying one mate, Because I have a few 'Problems' I can get a brand new one for Ł500 upfront on the motability and then everything paid for. But I have to keep it for three years and then I can pick another one. So if I was to get bored of it I am stuck with it.

Thanks for the long and very good replies, Benni.

xr2i-carl

it is a everyday car aint it??

AlexD

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Why cant they make a Fiesta ST Turbo !

We have a New Zetec S, Thats a wicked little car..

PF Dave

Fantastic as an everyday car, clocked up 10,000's of miles in the last year in mine and I can't fault it other than it's a little juicy and has developed a few rattles... but it's a Ford so you can only count one of those faults.

I say Juicy, I've been driving the new Mondeo 2.5T around this week and that makes the Fiesta ST seem like a 1.4 TDCi in economy terms!

Handling wise etc, they are that good I'm seriously contemplating building a modern version of my XR2 into an ST / Mk6 Fiesta...

HTH!

xr2i-carl

i rekon its driving style

i have got the 335d into the teens (mpg)

Luca

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Get one and in white

TimC

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Would love to see that done in the magazine. give me plenty of ideas for my mk6 then

Gooey

Im selling mine, Im doing the opposite to Dave

matt p

Here is a little link to the 2.5 conversion that jamsport has juat carried out!!

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=287257

Cheers

Matt

PinkRinse

Oh I got the Dreamscience thing a little bit wrong. You can install it onto a standard ST, get some gains (the car it was created from saw 163.9 bhp from standard) and add mods like an induction kit & exhaust later

Rossco

Should have kept little Blue car mate!!

Terry Tibbs

Its the fact that it can be completely mapped, adjusted, has 3-4 settings and keeps your origina setting that sells it over the bluefin.

Guy saw 301hp from a Focus RS with a de-cat and manifold when he got his.

Mental bit of kit, will blow bluefin out of the water.

Benni

How does dreamscience work? Doesen't a tuner have to Map your car and upload it to the handheld unit?