Official Ford Fiesta ST Color Thread

[M-Sport fan]

My car is Performance Blue, but I think I would have preferred Kona Blue if that color was available at the time I bought my car. Though, Performance does remind me of Imperial Blue of the old Escort RS Cosworth and Focus RS Mk1, a big reason I got mine in Performance to begin with.

One of the reasons I also would have ordered that color had it been offered for the 2016 model year production runs.

Even though the Mk7.5 Fiesta M-Sport WRC team cars were mostly a sort of blend of Kona and Performance Blue as their main livery colors.

 

[SPhilli911]

One of the reasons I also would have ordered that color had it been offered for the 2016 model year production runs.

Even though the Mk7.5 Fiesta M-Sport WRC team cars were mostly a sort of blend of Kona and Performance Blue as their main livery colors.

I quite like one of the M-Sport liveries featured on the Mk1 R5 Evo and later RS WRCs, a Nitrous Blue-ish fading to Kona looking dark blue.

 

[M-Sport fan]

^^^AGREED 200%!
I also like that R5 Evolution/WRC RS wing the best of all of them on our Mk7.5 body style as well.

I forgot now if the early Mk7 body style (like that what I believe to be an earlier WRC RS in the background of the pic above, with the slot/opening between the bumper top and hood) was ever offered in an R5 version or not.

I wonder how long it will be before there are not any Fiestas running at the top levels of even the lower WRC classes, at WRC rounds?

Ford seems intent on pushing the Puma on all of Europe and the rest of the world (except here of course, where it is considered way too small, even for a subcompact ute), so sadly, I think our marque's days are numbered.

 

[Intuit]

Every time I see one of those widened out FiST I think of...

 

[SPhilli911]

^^^AGREED 200%!
I also like that R5 Evolution/WRC RS wing the best of all of them on our Mk7.5 body style as well.

I forgot now if the early Mk7 body style (like that what I believe to be an earlier WRC RS in the background of the pic above, with the slot/opening between the bumper top and hood) was ever offered in an R5 version or not.

I wonder how long it will be before there are not any Fiestas running at the top levels of even the lower WRC classes, at WRC rounds?

Ford seems intent on pushing the Puma on all of Europe and the rest of the world (except here of course, where it is considered way too small, even for a subcompact ute), so sadly, I think our marque's days are numbered.

The early Mk7s never had an R5 because, if I recall, the R5 class wasn't introduced until later on. The one pictured above in the background is a early RS WRC but before that there was the Fiesta S2000 that looks similar with different wing. Foreground is the later Mk7 RS WRC, aka the best ones that look like our cars if you squint hard enough. A Fiesta R2 on the other hand looks exactly like ours

There was a Fiesta Mk8 based R5 called the R5 Mk2, though. The R5s, including Evo versions, are noteable for their almost comically small wing compared to the RS WRC.



I am enjoying the Puma though, even just to continue being an M-Sport fan despite the fact we'll never see the car here. It was especially cool to see Pumas with the snorkels during the Safari Kenya rally this year, would have been awesome to see them put a tribute livery on the new cars to celebrate the first ever Ford Focus WRC win which was at Kenya with Mcrae in '99. Think Ford will be around a long while in WRC still, M-Sport is a huge operation now I can't see them ditching Ford... too much history.

Sorry, got way off topic here.

 

[foodtruck]

Every time I see one of those widened out FiST I think of...

Very much the same with Corolla GR

 

[Ford SVT & ST]

Every time I see one of those widened out FiST I think of...
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[M-Sport fan]

The early Mk7s never had an R5 because, if I recall, the R5 class wasn't introduced until later on. The one pictured above in the background is a early RS WRC but before that there was the Fiesta S2000 that looks similar with different wing. Foreground is the later Mk7 RS WRC, aka the best ones that look like our cars if you squint hard enough. A Fiesta R2 on the other hand looks exactly like ours

There was a Fiesta Mk8 based R5 called the R5 Mk2, though. The R5s, including Evo versions, are noteable for their almost comically small wing compared to the RS WRC.

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I am enjoying the Puma though, even just to continue being an M-Sport fan despite the fact we'll never see the car here. It was especially cool to see Pumas with the snorkels during the Safari Kenya rally this year, would have been awesome to see them put a tribute livery on the new cars to celebrate the first ever Ford Focus WRC win which was at Kenya with Mcrae in '99. Think Ford will be around a long while in WRC still, M-Sport is a huge operation now I can't see them ditching Ford... too much history.

Sorry, got way off topic here.

Yes, same here with the Puma, and if they ever were to offer an ST, or better yet RS version of it here, I would buy it if I had the coin.
Better chance of winning the billion dollar powerball lottery than that ever happening though, given the Escape and (until recently??) the Ecosport being sold here in 'bigger HAS TO BE better' 'Murica.

One of the better looking compact utes, especially with nice wheels on them, and not sitting a mile in the air, albeit they will never have the insane body work of the WRC cars. (The Rally 1 Puma in tarmac trim looks wicked to me.)

The latter gen/evolution S2000 Fiestas had that WRC RS type wing on them, I believe (or maybe it was an option??).

That smaller wing is also used on the current Rally 3 cars which otherwise look exactly like standard Mk8 STs, body wise, and of course Team O'Neil used it on ACP's winning Open 2WD class FiST.