Farewell black fiesta

[J T]

Back on the old forum, I posted a topic mourning the passing of my old car and celebrating the new.

Well, we got bored of the fiesta, bless it's little 1600cc socks, and traded it in. The fester was fun, smart and a reliable lovely little motor, but we (I) wanted something a little bit bigger, more grown up (and most of all more powerful)





Poor pics I know, but I took them out the windows of the bathroom and kitchen earlier

I'm pretty stoked with this new car, there are the obvious things but also a number of nice, small touches abound. Very pleased.

[AlexJ]

Focus ST isn't it? Very nice!

[J T]

Yep, it's the ST-3 so we got some fancy leather recaros too.

Quite a step up going from a 1.6 to a 2.5 litre turbo - it's got a fair amount of poke and I haven't had a chance to really give it a good working over yet. Initial impressions are very positive

[Harrison]

Very nice. I've never been a big Ford fan, but they have always managed to create some nice cars when they use the ST badge.

A couple of years ago when I used to need to travel quite a long distance regularly for design related meetings my company always used to hire me a Mondeo ST24 and that was a very nice car to drive. Shifted too. I also drove a few more standard Mondeos and they were dire. Just shows how much they put into the ST designs.

There is one negative aspect to now owning a 2.5 litre car though JT. Later this year the car tax for all cars with a 2.5 or larger engine is increasing and come next year you will have to pay £400 in car tax!

[J T]

I was under the impression that the £400 would only be for the very highest C02 emissions. The ST puts out 224 g/km, and the cut off for the next band (and the very highest) is 225g. So very, very close. This year it was £205. Next year will probably increase (as it almost always does) but I'm doubtful it'll be quite that much - at least I hope not anyway

[Harrison]

From what I understood it was definitely all cars with an engine size of 2.5 litres or more. That still isn't going to stop me buy a 3 litre V6 407 Coupe GT though.