Ford Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost Zetec S review

What Exactly Is it?

We Have previously tried it in plush Titanium trimming; here it obtains more solid sports suspension along with a marginally lower GBP15,395 value tag.

Technical highlights?

The motor is only 1 litre in proportion and has three cylinders, but improved the functioning of the four-weed 1.6-litre Zetec S this version replaces thanks to turbo charging.

Browse operation Fords on evo Automobiles On The Market

Standard gear carries a delicate, Fiesta ST- MyKey, air-conditioning and aping body kit. The latter is geared toward parents whose children will borrow the vehicle and permits components like top rate, stereo quantity and ESP disabling to be managed when the auto is began with a certain key.

What's it-like to generate?

The Fiesta staies the supermini category standard for treatment and trip. The stronger springs of the Zetec S can sometimes look unyielding over specially bumpy streets - and there is periodically somewhat direction corruption - but the payoff is sharp change-in and a lively agility the majority of its own rivals can only imagine. It Is somewhat more incisive than less concentrated Fiestas, which are scarcely blancmanges to push as it's.

The motor is described by its own turbocharging. In the best gear there is an insatiable sparkle and impact, but it lacks total flexibility and external of its own peak powerband there is not much impulse. The effect is you must provide the engine a light caning to create reasonable to swift improvement. The result? We averaged only unsure of 42mpg in assorted driving, some 3 7 per cent lacking Ford's promised amount.

How can it compare?

The mini-hot-hatch pack leader in the minute is the Suzuki Swift Activity, which runs on the great old fashioned, rev-starving 1.6-litre nat-asp motor with 134bhp plus a close to-achievable 44.1mpg. In another end of the size, Renault's new Clio GT-Line unites RS Clio 200 seems having a 118bhp 1.2-litre turbo petrol-engine. It gets a six-speed dual-clutch paddle-shift gearbox as common and prices GBP17,395.

Anything else I must understand?

The price of the newest Ford Fiesta ST - our moderate-dimensions hot hatch of selection - seems unbelievable worth beside this 1.0 EcoBoost, beginning at GBP16,995 (simply GBP1600 more) having a 179bhp 1.6-litre turbo-engine and also a 6.9second 0-62 time. It can command greater insurance costs, sitting 1 5 groups greater as opposed to EcoBoost, in insurance team 30 and sits four tax bands greater with 137g/kilometer CO2 emissions.

Searching for a computerized? There's currently the choice of Ford's new dual-clutch Powershift gear box - even though it's significantly slower, due to its somewhat less powerful 98bhp state-of melody. A deficiency of steering wheel paddles traces in the gear box's want of sport pretense, and even though it's fast off the symbol offers little in the manner of driver participation.

Ford Fiesta hatchback 2013 video review