This is a bit of light hearted banter as most of you know I own a st170 as do a fair few on here, recently my good friend grant who is a ford collector told me that 170 owners call their cars a beaST , so I said why on earth would they do that seeing what other fords are out there way more deserving of this meaty name so he asked on the 170 owners facebook page and got slaughtered by their admin for daring to ask that question almost to the point of harrassment, Really some people

so my question is what FORD do you think deserves the tag beaST

for me in 2016 has to be the new roush mustang 717hp or take a look through passionfords Restorations, Rebuilds & Projects section as it full of cars deserving the tag beaST will be good to see some input from you all

 

If they think thats a beast fook knows what they will make of cars like desert storm or my rs but even fords on tight budgets with a few hundred hp dont deserve that tag steve

 

if your new to cars or have come from your nans micra lee and bought a 170 then yeah it will feel quicker for sure as we all have to start somewhere but to call it a beast is just plain silly, as for desert storm most would not have a clue what it was

 

The focus and fiesta st of that era are pretty lacking in power really, have to drive them quite hard to get anywhere. A turbo would have been nice

 

I know what you mean, people can call cars what they like most of the time with ford owners its swearing due to repairs but for a specific owners club to term their car as a beast is a bit odd and naive

 

St170 a beast? Haha I wouldn't even call a mk1 rs a beast let alone a non turbo version of the same car

 

totally agree and I have a 170 as a daily

 

It seems like they just wanted to make a pun from the letters ST really, despite it not being appropriate.

My only car is an ST150, and is usually the slowest straight line car when I go on track. 172s fly past on the straights although they are often track cars vs my daily.... have to make it up in the corners although this resulted in me exiting the track backwards on my last track day

Unless heavily modified I can't think of a lot of recent fords that would be "beasts", maybe the new RS but that seems fairly tame according to the reviews. Mk2 focus RS maybe?

Other than that, an RS200 or an m sport R5

 

I get that jimmy its just that they take it so serious rather than a bit of fun lifes too short to get all aggresive over something as silly as a word

 

It's more annoying when they call them focus ST's lol

 

Are these grown men on that website lol? Could understand a bunch off school kids with a pack of top trumps

 

exactly, the admin hunt in packs harrassing people into losing their rag so they ban them which is all very childish

 

I can only imagine people that call cars like the ST170 a "beast" have never owned anything even remotely quick.

I wouldn't even call my 270bhp T5 a beast, it's pokey for sure but really

 

Maybe it's the owners not the cars

 

steady on

 

A couple of friends of ours affectionately call my
Cossie similar like "how's the beast" or "I see u driving the beast" the other day. Feels slightly embarrassing if they say it in other company but there not into cars as such so to them it probably seems like a machine.

 

I used to have a 2L Mk3 Cortina, that was a beast, but only around corners

 

Nobody should ever call their car, or refer to their car, or any car for that matter, as "a (or the) beast". It's beyond cringeworthy and has been overused to death by all and sundry over the years.

 

Says a person named after a yeast infection....
Call it what you will, could be fuckass beast for all I care

 

I bet all their beasts are Mint as well

 

I think the new Hennessy Mustang that can do 208mph could be called a beast.

 

'not particularly faST' would be a better name

 

I call my cossie the beast sometimes.

Ford have made some cracking cars over the years.

Ie 3dr cossie
Cossie RS500
Escort cossie
RS200

A st170 is not a beast, and i own one lol.

 

I own a ST and my early one is style over substance, but good to see in recent years Ford has got the message and is making proper sporty STs now. This is what happens when the marketing men get their way, hopefully boffins will continue be let loose now rather than the bean counters.

 

They surely cant be serious!! It has to be a piss take? Imagine going to a track day or show and you get talking to someone and ask " what did you come in then"? and the reply is " the beast" I would be thinking "this guy must have something special" to then find out he is talking about his ST170!!! I would then be thinking "ST170!!! what a tosser"

 

If they think an st focus is a beast God knows what they would think of a rwd 650+ bhp cosworth

 

That would really be worthy of the name beast!!! My 2wd is only 450bhp and it scares anyone that comes out in it with me for the first time, so Fuck knows what 650+ bhp must be like!!!