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[GigiGalliNo1]

In other news.... M-Sport to have a new Fiesta for 2017. Still no car for them to build or test.. What are we thinking here? Winning car in 2017 and beyond?

[itix]

No... They don't have the budget.

[skarderud]

They probably tests solutions in old car, atleast they should.
When is the new car presented?

[Munkvy]

Who can put pressure on Ogier in championship terms (while driving VW)?! Hardly anyone...

Watching the highlights package on TV in the weekend I notice Mikkelsen is now second in the championship. And managed to overhaul and stay in front of Ogier in the last day of Portugal on much more even footing. Hopefully this is a good sign for the future, if he can fight with Ogier some of the time and keep it on the road, it can only be good for increasing the spectacle and making the outcome of events less predictable.

[stefanvv]

Watching the highlights package on TV in the weekend I notice Mikkelsen is now second in the championship. And managed to overhaul and stay in front of Ogier in the last day of Portugal on much more even footing. Hopefully this is a good sign for the future, if he can fight with Ogier some of the time and keep it on the road, it can only be good for increasing the spectacle and making the outcome of events less predictable.

Ogier had punctures, but still excellent drive of Mikkelsen nonetheless.

[AL14]

Watching the highlights package on TV in the weekend I notice Mikkelsen is now second in the championship. And managed to overhaul and stay in front of Ogier in the last day of Portugal on much more even footing. Hopefully this is a good sign for the future, if he can fight with Ogier some of the time and keep it on the road, it can only be good for increasing the spectacle and making the outcome of events less predictable.

Mikkelsen is a nice guy but I don't think he has much more in the pocket anymore...

[Mintexmemory]

Ogier had punctures, but still excellent drive of Mikkelsen nonetheless.

Meh, only performed when the heat was off. He will be nowhere when the tarmac comes around. I have said before that Ostberg would get the same results in a VW. Andreas is not champ material.

[wia5958]

Meh, only performed when the heat was off. He will be nowhere when the tarmac comes around. I have said before that Ostberg would get the same results in a VW. Andreas is not champ material.

Nah ostberg would still b havin downshift problems

[Fast Eddie WRC]

2017 Fiesta road-car image



“The current Fiesta has been so successful,” one Ford insider told Autocar, “that it has earned the right to evolve.”

Like the current car, the new Fiesta will be based on Ford’s Global B platform, also used in a simpler form for the Ka+. That means the new Fiesta will be very similar in overall length and wheelbase to the existing car, although there is talk of slightly wider tracks.

Clues to chassis spec came to life with the current Fiesta ST, when suspension engineers decided the twist beam rear suspension needed retooling to preserve handling balance and improve ride comfort. But the investment needed was not forthcoming until Ford committed to using familiar but improved components in the next-generation car.

So the new Fiesta will have a developed version of the outgoing model’s platform, complete with tuned but fundamentally unaltered MacPherson strut front suspension, rack and pinion steering and a twist beam rear end. Although manufacturers such as Renault have dropped three-doors from their supermini ranges, the new Fiesta will continue in three-door and five-door versions.

Scoop photographs show a car with exterior styling reminiscent of the outgoing model’s but with a wider and more grown-up look brought by extra width, a lower bonnet, thinner headlights and horizontal tail-lights to replace the current vertical affairs. Ford hopes no current owner will be put off by the new look.

[Mirek]

That's only photoshop, not the real car. Is even written in the Autocar article.