Previous-or current- interesting cars and what they meant to you.

[LuvPug]

From my experience the ST community is broad, curious about how this platform appealed to you. I fell in love at first drive.

 

[LuvPug]

OK weird how that was parsed... I am curious about the other cars fellow FiSTer's have owned, I've had a Porsche Boxster S( Fun car, but I had to replace the clutch and it was a frickin ordeal) and an 84' Hurst-Olds with a Trans-Am 403 Olds swapped in. It was fun because it would rock the entire car at idle due to the cam I was running. I'm sure most here have fun vehicles in their past, please share.

 

[DoomsdayMelody]

The main draw is the driving dynamics, the engine is just the icing on the cake. It’s not fast, but it sure feels that way. Honestly as far as high performance street cars that you can actually fully utilize in regular street driving, the only car that compares would be a Miata, but with a FiST you get more power and space and the ability to move more than 2 people in a pinch. Honestly just a more practical Miata.


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[pixelzombie]

My first new car was a Mazda MX-6 and damn that thing had some wicked torque steer. I don't recall the 0-60 time but it definitely had very good acceleration. The other cool thing was driving with the sunroof open at night on a wooded road. You could hear the sound of the turbo working and that would bounce off the trees for a nice audio treat.

 

[TyphoonFiST]

I had a Black 93 Honda Del Sol...with a huge whale tail spoiler. Body kit..White wheels and a B18 GSr engine in it. I Fit 6 people in that thing including myself. Keep in mind its a 2 seater with a removable hard top/Roof. I still have friends who remember when I did that....You remember when we went to the pine tree farm party in Bum f*CK Egypt and you fit all those people in the DeL Sol. That thing had an exhaust leak too ...so the 2 Dudes I stuffed in the trunk were light headed when we got there! HAHAHAHA

OR

Blowing 100mph around lake Calhoun in MPLS in the Typhoon with some ladies in the back Screaming like it was a roller coaster...smoking bowls and pounding some beers!

 

[The Cuzi]

I was driving to work one morning, not in a great mood. My truck was getting 13mpg and my S2000 was getting low 20s (ontop of repair after repair - mine was a lemon). I said F* it, I'm buying something small and fun. Looked at Ford's line up, saw the Fiesta had a 'ST' model. Never heard of it but googled around and found lots of videos of people saying it was fun to drive. Called the dealership and 12 hours later I bought my FiST without ever driving it.

The moment I drove it I absolutely loved the FiST (minus the rev hold thing Ford had - that was and is dumb as hell). A week later I ordered my APV3 from Mountune. By 1,500miles I was tunned up by Randy and on the prowl.

Past Cars In Order:
1997 Suzuki Swift (66hp baby!)
1997 Acura Integra GSR
2000 Audi A4 (totaled, rear-ended a suburban full of police officers)
2002 Audi S4 (blown up, twice $$)
2014 Nissan Frontier PRO-4X
2013 Chevy Silverado 1500
2002 Honda S2000

 

[powermatt]

From my experience the ST community is broad, curious about how this platform appealed to you. I fell in love at first drive.

I've always liked small cars, if for no other reason that they just make life easier (parking, maneuvering, less general wear and tear, cheaper parts, etc., etc.). I've also always had a strong preference for hatchbacks, for reasons that should be obvious. When I first learned that some madman at Ford had stuffed almost 200 hp in a car the size of the Fiesta, I was immediately intrigued. I wrote it off, though, because it was a "just a Ford". I was definitely on a strong JDM stint (having owned three Subarus before this), but after Subaru massively botched an airbag recall job, I decided to finally test drive one. I bought my late '15 FiST that same day.

The Subarus were all normal boring models (a '97 Impreza hatch, '96 Legacy sedan, and an '08 Impreza hatch), so nothing really interesting there. My first vehicle was a Toyota T100, which is how I discovered I had absolutely no interest in trucks. When my '15 was totaled, I spent a year with a '19 VW Golf R, which on paper checked the boxes of everything I wanted in a car... but I could never move from "really liked" to "loved" with that car. It was just missing a personality. So now I'm in my second FiST, and I have no regrets on the decision to get rid of the R. Of course I also have my '19 Miata, which I will not be parting ways with for a very long time. I made the mistake of trading my '16 Miata for the R, a mistake I regretted almost immediately.

I've driven dozens of other cars over the years of all types and sizes, but I came back to the only two cars that have ever really been cars that I loved, and would be willing to live with. There's nothing else on that list right now, really.

 

[Se7eN]

Well I previously had a lot of normal family cars and SUV as first cars. Then one day when I turned 21 I bought an LS1 Camaro with an automatic (cause I couldn't find a 6 speed around here). After a good 10 or so years modding and breaking and modding and breaking. Decided to get a 2007 Civic Si as a daily. Was great fun, felt really planted but I left it mostly stock except for clutch as I bought it used and it died a few months after purchase. 2 years later and 2 clutches later I met up with a friend and a Green Fiesta ST we ran the cars and the fiesta seemed faster, more agile and overall fun.

Few weeks later after that went to a local ford dealer and test drove a Tuxedo Black Fiesta ST they had out in front. Fell in love as I test drove the heck out of it. Had a pick of colors all the same speck with Sun Roof and Recaro no NAV. End up being that my father (who came with me to help me negotiate) picked the Tuxedo Black although he hates black cars as it was the coolest looking.

I'm at nearly 6 years with the car and it's about to be completely paid off, I plan on keeping it and track it use the Camaro for Sunday drives (yes I still have it since 2006) and get a family friendly SUV for when me and the wife start one.

 

[JSWhaler]

I still miss my S2000. I saved for 5 years went in and bought a new 2003 on the spot with cash (my dream car). Unfortunately, years later I was involved in a bad bike crash and was told I wouldn't drive a manual again. After multiple surgeries and learning how to walk again I am able to drive a manual. I always loved small manual cars (previous civics etc). My local dealership had 2 Fist's in stock and I made a deal, unloading my Gti. My wife doesn't care for the Fist, but couldn't believe that I wanted a car sub $20k.

 

[M-Sport fan]

Being into world level, and national rallying since the mid '70s (despite owning about as different from a rally car as is possible, '00 LS1 Z28 manual from new, for a lot of that time), and being decidedly NOT a 'JDM fan' at all, I knew that when Ford did a special edition hot hatch, it was WAY MORE than "just a Ford".

When the Camaro dropped a lifter after 225K miles of being my only car, and daily abuse, I decided to sell it as is, and put that coin towards something else instead of trying to find, and install an LS6 replacement, which given my lack of equipment, and facilities would have run me upwards of $8K to accomplish with labor charges for a 15 year old, very high mileage ride (that is IF one could even find an LS6 for ANY price, given their insane demand as swap power plants into EVERYTHING!!).

That this is the very first time that we in the U.S. could buy a body style car the same as what the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team (and even going back long before that to the Ford Boreham-based WRT, and the long list of Escort RSes we were NEVER allowed to have!) is basing it's WRC monsters on (besides the earlier first gen Foci of course), and in a hotter version than the base car to boot, it made me have to own one!

The interior does not bother me at all, like it really seems to everyone else, as don't most of the other little things everyone complains about, but yes, the rust/paint thing does.
The only thing I don't like otherwise is there was no option for a limited slip right from the factory (since it will now co$t me ~$3200.00 to do), and no 2 door option like the Brits/Euros/rest of world get.

 

[Gone in 60]

2005 Ford Five Hundred. A big, huge lunchbox of a car. Smaller than a Crown Vic, but had a bigger interior, and you could put a fully-dressed 302 in the trunk and shut the lid.
3.0 Duratec, couldn't get out of its own way. They sold so few of them in California that most people at gas stations said "Hey, nice Volvo". I put a Galaxie badge on the trunk as a goof.

The most boring automobile Ford ever produced. So lame that they only made it for three years, then made it more lame by passing it off as a Taurus for a few more years. But, I drove that beast for ten years, the longest I ever owned a car. Why? It never pissed me off. The roof was as high as an SUV, so I never banged my head getting in and out of it. The interior was huge - I could slouch down into the seat, and no part of my body touched anything else - my knee didn't whack the armrest, my other knee was a mile away from the center console. It could haul more stuff than the Honda CRV we replaced it with.

It was practically worthless when I sold it as a ten-year-old car with 145,000 miles. A guy bought it to give to his 17-year old daughter who just got her license. He said "I want her to be in a tank so that whatever she crashes into, she'll be OK. I also want to put her in a lame-ass old man's car so that the boys won't even look at her."

I imagine that car went out in a blaze of glory when that girl probably rammed it into the back of some poor fool while she was busy updating her Instagram.

 

[theblue]

low weigh, low price, turbo + manual. SOLD

 

[xxiaze]

89 dodge caravan (totaled dune racing at the river) > 96’ Jeep ZJ Grand Cherokee (Lost motor and trans LIMPing in 1st gear for 4hr road trip) > bicycle (this is the whip that won me my wife) > 06’ civic VP coup (bought for 1k$, sold to my brother with 240k) > fiesta st (bought it as a commuter because it fit the bill plus I wanted something fun that was turbo and manual - I could’ve afford a wrx... but, now glad I didn’t! Bought mine used with 90k for 7.5k$)

 

[Dpro]

I am actually on the lookout for another S30 240z .Started out with Datsun 510’s in high school graduated to 240z ‘s First full on true Sports car I would own. Owned some fast cars since. I was looking for daily driver basically. I owned 2 E36 M3’s at the time now I only have one. lol Friend suggested I look at a FoST he had no idea about the FiST nor did I . Saw it on the lot ( small little car sitting next to a Focus, looked like a baby sister) asked the salesman whats that? He was oh thats a Fiesta ST it has a Turbo too.
I was like can I drive it? He goes sure you can take it down the street. We had just got back from an extended test drive in the FoST. I hopped in the car , first thing I noticed it turned on a dime compared to the FoST. Second thing I noticed it felt more ergonomically correct seating position with base seats than a FoST which required lots of adjustment.
Took it down the street. Thats all I needed. I knew then and there I had to buy one. It reminded me of Datsun 510’s in High School, B13 Sentra SER’s and Infiniti G20’s( Nissan P10 Primera BTC champion in the mid 90’s).
It just oozed fun. It put a smile on your face and it was under 20K lol what a steal!

The epitome of an entry level sports machine. No wonder I would find out some Miata owners who had driven them called them 4 door Miata’s lol

 

[Se7eN]

The epitome of an entry level sports machine. No wonder I would find out some Miata owners who had driven them called them 4 door Miata’s lol

My dad has had lots of Miata I think the most recent is the 4th is a NB. Now when I got the fiesta on a test drive I felt exactly that it was a Miata but more comfortable. lol

 

[SPhilli911]

I've had some interesting cars over the years, but the bottom line is that I always wanted a fun, nimble little car, so the Fiesta has made sense. There simply aren't other new cars today that fit the bill for me. GTI, Focus ST, Abarth, Mini, WRX, things like that are nice but may not match the Fiesta in the fun department, at least for what I want in a car.

In the order I owned the cars (excluding teen year early cars):
2003 VW GTI 1.8T
2000 Audi A4 1.8T Quattro
2004 Subaru STI (the dream car of mine, loved the car, but was getting expensive to maintain)
1990 VW Passat 16v (the beater car to hold me over while waiting for the Fiesta ST to be built, but turned out to be an extremely fun car I wish I held on to)
1998 Subaru 2.5 RS (bought as a project, was too rusty to keep, damn New England)