NEW Ford Fiesta ST: Good Enough To Be An RS? - Carfection 

What a glorious piece of film. I've been seeing Fiesta ST videos popping up in my feed and silenty waiting for Henry's video to drop.

I am 24 at the moment and I bought one when I was 22. I still watch this video every now and then because it is just one of the most relaxing things to do. See someone like Henry enjoy and ST with these cinematic shots

I love that 3 cylinder sound. It makes the car sound so much more intimidating than it looks

Driving an old Fiesta right now, this is my realistic dream for the next one!

That's a good review. Well done carfection team.

Love the professionalism and ambiance of your videos, Henry! Keep it up, Carfection!

"America won't be getting the new ST.....sorry" those words were like a dagger to the heart :'(

Great review. I'm a fan of the New ST and happy it's now a little bit more easier to live with. The engine sounds magnificent too 🙌🏽.

Love the 3 cylinder sound. The car sounds more exotic and gives the feeling of a big engine up front.

What is really impressive to see in this video is the dynamism of the chassis at work, faster steering rack and the three-wheeling. This is what the ST is all about. Thanks for mentioning the tyres too. It looks like Ford has managed to improve the car. As a current Mk7 Fiesta ST owner, this is a great review and I am now looking forward to test-driving one myself within the next week! Carfection are getting better and better with every video.

This is the best review I've seen so far. Fantastic. I only wish it were longer!

In this review you've transfered emotion that comes from this hatch. I wish to have this one in the future

Loving the car and the review. Congratulation to Henry and the whole Carfection team for the video...

This video gave me chills. Excellent review !!

Great review by Henry, as always. Just a pleasure to watch and listen to.

Mine went into build yesterday! Can't wait for it to arrive!

Amazing review. I'm glad to hear that it's still as fun as the old one while being a bit more refined.

Cagnes sur Mer in Carfection !!! I never thought I'd see my small hometown on this channel hahaha, great review Henry. This is the dream first car for me

Henry! As an avid evo and mbr reader of the mid to late 00s it’s great see a familiar face still grinning down a twisty B road.

best review of any car I have watched in a long time thank you

Super review. You just make the best reviews, thanks. Well done

Great review as always. I like the fact that this ST is a 3 cylinder and not a 4 pot as it as you say gives it character. My first car- 1992 Subaru Justy 1.2 was a 3 pot and that had character.

Great review by one the best reviewers - used to like reading his articles in Evo magazine

Now, this is quality review. Great work!

That three wheeling clip made me smile 😊

Come back to this 4 years later, having just put a deposit down on a 2020 ST-2 and I'm so bloody excited. Wanted one when I first saw this review, and buzzing I can now get one.

Fantastic review as always

Henry you are getting better and better !

Great review, as always. I'm in love :)

aaand the fiesta st review we've all been waiting for.

Carfection has, by far, the best Cinematography of any car channel on YT

Nice Omega Speedmaster!!!

Great review!

Amazing review as always. I always liked the Fiesta ST, this new one looks way more polished, the new design is def a step forward (unlike the Focus). I've been saying this in every car YT channel. Please review old hot hatches, especially those forgotten ones (you can find Golf, Clios and 205 anywhere). This applies to any youngtimer really. Sometimes is nice to look back and see how much cars have changed.

i cant wait to try this out..... my current ST2 has been wonderful!! One of the best cars ive owned!

Test drove this today and put my order in straight away! Blue with the lsd in three door, can't wait!

Great to the point review! Enjoyed my next car hopefully 👍

Ford has been absolutely killing it with these Fiesta ST's! Wow! Incredible! My '18 ST, the last of American greatness of its kind will be greatly loved and cherished!

I got mine last week and absalutley love it 👍

I owned an ST200 before I moved away to study, and that was an awesome car. When I move back to the UK this will be first on my list to go and test drive! I'm hoping by then Mountune will have another warranty-friendly tuning package.

Great review. Sad to see this won't be on US roads for many, many years.

I see Catchpole and a hot hatch, I hit "like."

Excellent review

Perfect review, as always.

Awesome Review! Thanks a lot

A great video as always! Unfortunately, we won't see this in the US.

Have a 2021 built model on order now. Only just recently a thing here in Australia, fell in love with it on the test drive. Have driven a 2010 focus ST for 6 years haha

Great Video Review

heyy intro song please? Nice upgrade on video editing! Great as always! one of the best guys in the car testing world

So bummed we don't get this in the states. Good review! Your accent is much more tolerable than most Brits too :)

I loved my Fiesta ST here in the US, what a fun car to toss around on a daily. I'm sad to see we will not be seeing this newer version.

3:41 The wheels doing that funky thing they do, goin backwards and forwards.

You guys deserve a gazillion subscribers!

Great little car. In my area of the states the fiesta ST is difficult to get. I was able to get a new Focus ST which i'm really enjoying. Hot hatches are great. It feels good to really enjoy driving again.

Ford does know how to make cars. One of the best manufacturers of all times

Absolutely gutted we won’t be getting this or the new focus st here in North America. Fords new strategy has left nothing but a mustang and the new focus active plus all of their trucks and big suvs. Take away the fun hatches that they had and they gave us a ST crossover instead. *cries*

What needed to be fixed in the old Fiesta ST..has been fixed...now it is Brilliant !!!!

Great review Xcar

My favourite driving road 5 minutes away! would have been fun to see you there!

Really wish we'd get this in the states :(

Wow! Amazing review as usual!

Great review, great car. Some clever engineering has gone into this by Ford.

I live in the area this was filmed, it seems a perfect car for our area. Small, nimble and 10/10ths. I hope you made it over to Greolieres and the famous James Bond / Ronin car chase roads as well as Col de Vence.

Henry, great video (except that you reminded those of us in the U.S. won't be getting it). So, it's back to the old days of envying European Fords....fantastic car, though.

Hopefully getting mine on Saturday.

Last 3 words you said are the ones that made me your subscriber.

As someone who owns the MK1 RS, I’m very excited to drive this ST

Got a feeling that some ppl who buy one of these will drive like RS's anyway 😂😂🤣🤣🤣

love small Fords endless fun to drive and reliable

Let's start a letter-writing or telephone-calling campaign to Ford United States to tell them we want the all-new Focus and Fiesta Hatchback 6 speed Manual Transmission cars to be sold in the U.S. Tell them they've made a terrible mistake in not bringing these cars to the U.S. market. Please join me in this effort! Let's convince them to change course and offer us these great hatchbacks. Thank you.

Looks more like an MPV than a hatchback, but they have grown on me. A squat and flared RS version would probably look AMAZING, though. Let’s hope Ford don’t bottle it this time. EDIT: I’m astonished they added 100kg of weight despite the smaller engine. What the FUCK

Seems to be that this car is getting very positive reviews. I drive a mk7 fiesta ST and the extra comfort is very appealing. I love my fiesta ST. In the right road with the right sort of mood. I haven’t driven a car that had provided me with the same good sense of fun (maybe with an exception to the Peugeot 106 Gti). It’s a very well judged car. However I think the older car’s lightness had plenty to do with this feeling and I couldn’t help but comment on how heavy this new fiesta had become. For about the same size as the old car. It’s pretty much the same weight as a golf GTI!

Awesome review, the first one to make me want to change up from the mk7 ST... Or do I just save myself some money and Fit a quaife differential and some bilstein suspension ....?

Nice little car, I like the interior. Too bad we won't get it in the States.

Best review yet

Spot on review great car for the right money ,well done ford .👏

Still love my Mk7. This may be better, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than a good B road, a summer's day and my little fiesta under my right foot.

Very good review. What’s the MPG like given the two cylinder variation thats available?

I wish they didn’t discontinue the Fiesta here in the States.. I bet that’s a really fun car

Wow... Great looking little car

People underestimate 3 cylinders, but the new Mini Cooper with the three cylinder is quite fast when tuned, and lighter than the 4 cylinder Cooper S. I really wish the Fiesta ST was still in the U.S., I was very close to getting one before going for my Cooper S.

Great little car for loads of fun. Thumbs up.

Great video, thank you! To those who have driven the new ST and also the up! GTI already, what is more fun for the money? I currently own a Golf GTI Clubsport, but am looking for a replacement. The Clubsport is just too serious, lacking any sense of simple fun. Yesterday I finally tested the up! GTI and I had a great time. But this review of the ST makes me wondering if I want one instead of either Volkswagen...

I have the 2014 ST, and love the Hell out of it, it 54,000 miles on it and I’m on my 4th set of tires, I love driving on 3 Wheels and getting sideways. I would have definitely bought this new one just for all the new infotainment center alone and I love the new styling, I just hope that Ford will offer it as a Specialty order.

Brilliant review! However, I have to ask Henry. Have you ever actually catched a pole? This has been bothering me greatly and I can't help but think that if it were my name, I'd have to at least 'catch a pole' at least once in my life 😁

Sold my previous gen MP215 because I couldn't live with the ride quality.. also it was such fun to thrash that I was simply travelling too fast for most of the time! Well done Ford - I'll perhaps look at one of these in 3 years when they are 12k for a low miler.

I've a 2016 ST and I'm loving it. The engine is the one let down for me though. Would I enjoy this more and is it worth the upgrade?

Thank you

Wish we were getting the 3 door in australia, it looks so good

You killed me when you said it would not be offered in the states 😌

It's a beautiful looking little thing.

the 3 cylinder has a really nice sound to it, much better than the 4 cylinder in the mk7

Excellent review. Does anyone know what the song is in the beginning of the video?

Brialliant video and what a car!

It sounds fantastic!

This little thing with LSD and m235 mountune package is all I want from car :)

The song at the start is temporal flame 7 by martin felix

Sounds like a great wee engine!!

B&O stereo in a ST 😱 one thing a lot of reviews didn’t mention was the 100kg increase., very interesting! Ford is on a roll right now with performance cars!

So heart broken the US won't get this. The mechanical LSD is what it always needed. Just and awesome car. Wonder if they might have added a 3 cylinder to also differentiate it further against the Focus ST maybe?