As I am in the process of finding a buyer for my BMW before I can get into a new fiesta I have been doing a lot of reading and youtube watching about the ST. So today when I got a friend at work to let me try out a small drive in his 2014 ST I had high expectations. I had a 2014 fiesta for a little while and the car was okay for the price and met all my expectations. But today I was blown away but this little car.
200hp and 200 ft/lb of torque.... I will admit, I wasn't excited by those numbers. I got in the car thinking its going to be like a stock STi (heavy underpowered and rather boring) but when i pressed the gas pedal in second gear... that tiny little turbo spooled up at a stunning speed and the car just went, and it didn't want to stop going. I came to a traffic circle and didn't have to slow down at all. felt perfectly comfortable and reasonably stable taking the circle at the 50kph speed limit. sadly we only had time for me to take a very short 5 minute drive today but it was enough to know I'm going to get one.
There are two things that really did kind of turn me off though. 1) the baby seat barely fits in the back. my wife's knees will be pressed close to the dash. 2) the torque steer in second gear around the traffic circles was annoying but something to get used to. it is a FWD car after all so that is not really avoidable.
I now understand why this car has the following it does.
anyway sorry for it being all over the place my thoughts are a little scrambled due a new prescription. have a nice day y'all.
200hp and 200 ft/lb of torque.... I will admit, I wasn't excited by those numbers. I got in the car thinking its going to be like a stock STi (heavy underpowered and rather boring) but when i pressed the gas pedal in second gear... that tiny little turbo spooled up at a stunning speed and the car just went, and it didn't want to stop going. I came to a traffic circle and didn't have to slow down at all. felt perfectly comfortable and reasonably stable taking the circle at the 50kph speed limit. sadly we only had time for me to take a very short 5 minute drive today but it was enough to know I'm going to get one.
There are two things that really did kind of turn me off though. 1) the baby seat barely fits in the back. my wife's knees will be pressed close to the dash. 2) the torque steer in second gear around the traffic circles was annoying but something to get used to. it is a FWD car after all so that is not really avoidable.
I now understand why this car has the following it does.
anyway sorry for it being all over the place my thoughts are a little scrambled due a new prescription. have a nice day y'all.