Frozen White Mk8.5 Ford Fiesta ST-3

[Gulf7]

I've owned a Mk7 Fiesta ST-2 as my daily for the last 6 years. It's such a good car that I decided if if I wanted a Fiesta ST as a keeper, now was the last chance to get a nearly new one. So 2 weeks ago I picked up this ex-demo Frozen White Mk8.5 ST-3:



As it was registered in September 2023, more than 2 months after Fiesta production stopped, so I enquired with Ford about its build date. It turns out this one was built on July 4th, 2023 - just 3 days before production stopped. So one of the very last then!

It's perhaps not quite a raw as the Mk7, but the LSD that came as standard on the final ST-3s is really good at getting the extra torque down. The valved exhaust sounds great too. This one also has the Winter Pack.

Ford actually gave it a really good valet before collection (!), but I've now replaced their wax with Gtechniq Ceramic Sealant, ready for the autumn:



The plan is to keep it totally standard. It won't be going on track as I have a Caterham Seven 310R for that.

Edited by Gulf7 on Saturday 12th October 22:06

Edited by Gulf7 on Wednesday 16th October 09:06

[Neil1323bolts]

Yes very nice, I looked at a couple of these but ended up with an i20N, sadly both cars now consigned to the history books, i can’t get my head around the fact these sort of cars are finished! I actually quite like the bright green colour on this age ST

[Gulf7]

Yes I've heard good things about the i20N, but for me it had to be another Fiesta ST.

The Mean Green was the most expensive colour I believe. Not to my taste personally though. My Mk7 was black, and I did consider another black one before buying this white one. AFAIK all the Ford demonstrators were white.

Edited by Gulf7 on Sunday 29th September 05:29

[keo]

I really like these. You have a pretty perfect two car garage!

[Gulf7]

keo said:

I really like these. You have a pretty perfect two car garage!

Good point - time to update that thread!

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...