M-Sport Fiesta S2000

The Fiesta looks really nice and I'm looking forward to seeing it on Monte. I expect Ford to register, even if they aren't funding a "works" team. Hopefully M-Sport will run a team with two decent drivers, that would be a virtual works team.

The car doesn't quite have the wonderful deep grunty sound of the Fabia to my ears, and I notice the engine has a shorter stroke so I don't expect it to be quite as torquey as the Fabia either.

The Fabia and Fiesta both share excellent Reiger suspension though so the new Ford should be good on the rough stuff :up:

Was talking to a guy who watched the Fiesta in Scotland today. He tells me it was visibly faster than Meeke or Wilk's car, especially on the uphill parts of the stage. Should make things interesting next season.

If Mathew started 5 minutes before Alister to TV SS3, than he was 31 seconds slower than Alister in that stage. Of course he could have started in different time to make it more difficult to measure it's time (as Skoda did in Barum 08).

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Originally Posted by noel157

Was talking to a guy who watched the Fiesta in Scotland today. He tells me it was visibly faster than Meeke or Wilk's car, especially on the uphill parts of the stage. Should make things interesting next season.

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I find that quite hard to believe. Prefer to wait for real stage times next year!

Here's a new (poor quality) video of the Fiesta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbnfTVeHWAQ

I guess everybody's perception of speed is different and perhaps he only saw the speed of the car on a section that proved little. Hopefully somebody somewhere will have times.

RS, why do you think it would not have the speed (or maybe more of it) than the 207 nor Fabia?

The video gives a better indication of the sound, much better exhaust note can be heard than on the silly Spy Video.

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Originally Posted by RS

Here's a new (poor quality) video of the Fiesta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbnfTVeHWAQ

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Not so good in sound,but seems very healthy motor.

Ford guys said that Fiesta was a little slower than Kris Meeke.

I think people doubting the speed doesn't necessarily come from the car but from the driver.

I mean if the Fiesta was actually faster than the two leaders what would that say about the car! That would be biblical with Matt Wilson behind the wheel. If they really wanted to compare times they would have put someone else in the car.

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Originally Posted by Xsara Fan

Ford guys said that Fiesta was a little slower than Kris Meeke.

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Little? :dozey: