Named BBC TopGear Magazine Car of the Year, U.K., and Echappement magazine Sports Car of the Year, France, the Fiesta ST also was recently named a 2014 Automobile Magazine All-Star in the U.S.
The compact performance hatch has also been showered with praise, taking home top honors in Car Magazine's Top 12 awards this past January. In its selection of the 12 best cars in specific categories, the staff of Car Magazine named the Fiesta ST the Best Hot Hatch for 2014. The ST also scooped the awards for Hot Hatch of the year 2014 and most enjoyable car of 2013 from Top Gear SA magazine. RPM also recently named it Hot Hatch of the year.
Team RS tuned the powertrain, suspension, steering and brakes for optimised driving dynamics; and introduced features only previously found in larger performance cars - including enhanced Torque Vectoring Control (eTVC) and three-mode Electronic Stability Control (ESC), six-speed manual transmission, and rear disc brakes.
"The new Fiesta ST delivers remarkable levels of performance, design and quality to offer an unsurpassed driving experience," said Juergen Gagstatter, chief programme engineer, Fiesta ST. "Ford's European customers are connoisseurs of the hot hatchback and the new Fiesta ST speaks directly to that passion for performance driving."