Ford Fiesta is Top-Selling Vehicle in Britain for 2020
It’s not necessarily a surprise to note that the Ford Fiesta was the bestselling car in Britain for all of 2020. After all, the nameplate had been Britain’s No. 1 seller for 11 years prior with some 1.3 million examples sold since 2009. But in a tumultuous year, Ford is nonetheless appreciative that the Fiesta […]
Britain Sells More Little Tikes Cozy Coupes Than Ford Fiestas
Britain had a new bestselling car this past March — and it’s probably not the one you’d expect. In a surprising turn of events, the Little Tikes Cozy Coupe outsold the country’s top-selling (real) car, the Ford Fiesta. Keep Your Family Healthy This Summer: Tips for sanitizing your car The stats British consumers bought approximately […]
Special De-Livery: 2020 Ford Fiesta WRC Car Revealed
Ahead of the 2020 FIA World Rally Championship season getting underway this week, Ford has revealed the new livery that will adorn the 2020 Ford Fiesta WRC cars for M-Sport Ford World Rally Team. Designer Phil Dixon says that he was inspired by the style of the 1990s and that inspiration carries through in a […]
There is Now a Ford Fiesta Trend (As in a Car Named the Ford Fiesta Trend)
Folks in the United Kingdom love the Ford Fiesta about as much as Boris Johnson loves circumnavigating democracy and looking like a floppy goof who woke up in a gutter and tossed on a suit. Very similar levels of love, really. Because the Ford Fiesta is always in trend in the U.K., Ford has given […]
New Ford Fiesta R1 Ready to Rally
The all-new Ford Fiesta R1 will give aspiring rally car drivers a solid first rung to step upon in what Ford and M-Sport call its Ladder of Opportunity. The Fiesta R1 follows the Fiesta R2, which was revealed last year, as the second vehicle built at M-Sport’s headquarters in Poland and boasts rally-refined equipment including […]
2019 Ford Fiesta WRC Gets New Livery, Team Updates
Ahead of the kickoff for the 2019 FIA World Rally Championship, M-Sport Ford World Rally Team has unveiled a striking new livery. It won’t help with winning races, but it sure as heck’ll have M-Sport Ford looking good when they do. The new M-Sport livery bowed in January at Autosport International in Birmingham ahead of the season-opening […]
New Ford Fiesta Wins Three Car of the Year Awards
The fact that it has been the best-selling car in the United Kingdom for eight years running is proof enough that folks in the UK really, really love the Ford Fiesta. The same could be said for all the hardware it’s accumulated over the years, a total that has grown by three car of the […]
Ford Fiesta ST Tops All Competitors in Parkers New Car Awards 2019
Tragically, the all-new Ford Fiesta ST is not coming to the United States. We’ve made peace with it, but it still cuts pretty deep — even if Ford’s keeping the current-gen Fiesta ST around for another year to help soften the blow just a bit. That fact makes it all the more bittersweet to read […]
New Ford Fiesta ST Blazes Through Underground Salt Mine in ‘Undertrack’
A performance vehicle’s mettle can be put to the test on a wide variety of surfaces, ranging from smooth track to rugged roads to rocks to sand and so on. One surface you don’t hear about too often is salt, but at an expansive mine set a quarter-mile underground, World Rally Championship driver Elfyn Evans […]
2018 Ford Fiesta Overview
The Ford Fiesta is a petite model with a lot to offer. Depending on your needs, you can choose between sedan and hatchback configurations. Each model seats up to five passengers, and the hatchback offers up to 25.4 cubic feet of cargo space. The 2018 Ford Fiesta is available in four trims: S, SE, Titanium, […]
Yes, Virginia, There Will Be a 2019 Ford Fiesta ST (and Fiesta ST-Line)
It’s a Fourth of July miracle! It’s long been assumed that the Ford Fiesta ST was dead as a doornail in the United States, with the seeming killing blow being dealt earlier this year when Ford confirmed plans to kill off every car save for the Mustang and upcoming Focus Active. But someone at Ford […]
The Ford Fiesta RS Might Be on the Table, But It Probably Doesn’t Even Matter if You’re Living in the United States
At this point, if you live in the United States, the mere suggestion that there is a rad new performance-focused Ford Fiesta on the horizon is just unfair. In addition to wallowing in your sadness over the fact that America isn’t getting the next-generation Ford Fiesta ST, a report from Motoring suggests that you can […]
Report: Ford Fiesta, Taurus on the Chopping Block as Car Sales Continue to Sag
With the reveal of its fourth-generation Focus compact sedan just days away, Ford is said to be considering dropping the ax on two of its other cars: the Fiesta subcompact and Taurus full-size sedan. The report, published by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, has Ford planning “to stop building the Fiesta small car for […]
LEGO Speed Champions Adds 1968 Ford Mustang, M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC
Two things that are objectively good: LEGO and the Ford Mustang. Okay, sure, you could probably think of a couple of circumstances where either is not particularly great—the former when it is laying in the path of your bare foot on a step while going downstairs late at night for a glass of water, and […]
[Photos] 2018 Ford Fiesta ST—Still Not Coming to America—Gets Optional Quaife LSD, Launch Control
![[Photos] 2018 Ford Fiesta ST—Still Not Coming to America—Gets Optional Quaife LSD, Launch Control](https://thenewswheel.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fthenewswheel.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F03%2F2018-Ford-Fiesta-ST-1.jpeg&q=90&w=760&h=400&zc=1 "[Photos] 2018 Ford Fiesta ST—Still Not Coming to America—Gets Optional Quaife LSD, Launch Control")
The all-new Ford Fiesta ST, a super fun-looking hot hatch that is almost certainly not coming to the United States, was revealed this week by Ford of Europe to “deliver the most responsive, engaging, and fun-to-drive Fiesta ST experience ever.” Cooool. Go ahead and rub it in, folks. It’s whatever. The reason for this lofty […]
New Ford Fiesta Wins Awards from CarBuyer, TopGear, and Women’s World COTY
Sales of the new Ford Fiesta are already picking up steam across Europe and in the United Kingdom, where Britain’s favorite little car that can (and does) recently surpassed the 25,000-vehicle sales milestone. But that’s not all the new Fiesta has managed to accomplish in the past month—it has earned three major awards, already cementing […]
Ford Fiesta, Ranger Nab Three Top Awards at UK’s MPG Marathon
The annual MPG Marathon this year saw three new fuel efficiency records set by Ford vehicles, two of which belong to the all-new Ford Fiesta hatchback. Using the technique of “hypermiling,” drivers from Norway and the United Kingdom squeeze as many miles (or kilometers) as they can from their vehicles in the hopes of setting […]
It Looks Like the Ford Fiesta ST is Indeed Dead in the United States
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