Ford Fiesta Design
Ready for a higher-performance Ford Fiesta? According to Autocar, a Fiesta ST will debut in less than two years’ time. The car would pack a 180-horsepower, 1.6 liter turbocharged engine and a six-speed manual transmission.
The American-market Fiesta has just one engine choice, a naturally aspirated 1.6-liter four-cylinder. With power ratings of 120 horsepower and 112 pound-feet, it’s efficient but unlikely to set enthusiasts’ hearts racing. The car’s standard manual gearbox has just five forward speeds, not the six predicted for an ST model.
Such an engine already exists in the Ford stable in September 2009, the company unveiled a 1.6-liter EcoBoost turbocharged engine rated at 180 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque. The four-cylinder was slated for use in the European C-Max, but as it touts 180 horsepower, it seems like a reasonable powertrain candidate for a hotted-up Fiesta. In fact, Ford hopes that 90 percent of its American products will be offered with EcoBoost engines by 2013.
Ford Fiesta Interior
If a Fiesta ST does launch here in late 2012 or early 2013, it will hit dealerships around the same time as the long-promised 247-horsepower Focus ST. The Focus ST will be available only as a five-door hatchback, and we expect the same of the Fiesta ST.
A go-fast Fiesta has been confirmed for American consumption; Ford recently released a limited-run, 132-horsepower Fiesta S1600 in the U.K., and told us that while the S1600 wasn’t coming to the U.S., “There are future performance-oriented models intended for North America.”
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