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Ford has revealed its production ready, Ford Fiesta ST in Geneva 2012. What’s so special about the ST version it’s has been fitted with a 1.6L Ecoboost inline-4 engine that pumping out 180ps with 240Nm of torque. To give you a better picture of that, the power is similar to the Volkswagen Polo GTI which basically has 10Nm of torque more. Just like the VW Polo GTI, the Ford Fiesta ST will do 0-100km/h in less than 7 seconds. Unlike the VW, the American automaker fitted the Fiesta ST with a 6 speed manual gear box instead. The top speed stands at 220km/h.

The Ford Fiesta looks great as well, inside & outside. The front headlamp is equipped with daylight LED, a meaner front fascia. The car comes standard with a set of twin tailpipe on the rear with a diffuser at the bumper and some tweak on the rear lights. Also notice, there’s some red calliper on the disc brakes. Inside, there will be a pair of sports semi bucket seats in leather with red stitching plus a nice ST steering wheel. Not to forget Ford SYNC infotainment system with voice control.

The Ford Fiesta ST will obviously look & handles in a sportier manner. The car is developed by the Ford’s RS team. The suspension of the car is lowered by 15mm lower from standard. Ford will fit the Fiesta ST with the enhance Torque Vectoring control system and 3 different Electronic Stability modes. Accordingly, the car was tested on the Nürburgring race track as well. Hence, I think the ride will be stiff and harsh!

With all the high tech technologies to handles the engine delivers the power to the front wheel driven Ford Fiesta ST. We will believe it will be Ford’s answer to the VW Polo GTI.

Photo Gallery: Ford Fiesta ST 180PS 1.6-litre EcoBoost

Ford US has added three new optional package on top of the standard Ford Fiesta 2012.  From the front the exterior package of this Ford Fiesta will have several parts painted in Black such as part of the headlights, side mirrors and  grille edges. All these are belief to be inspiration for the Ford Focus RS in found in Europe.

There will be 2 colours for Ford Fiesta US buyers to choose from to change the interior. Named as Race Red and Oxford White are the colours mated with black to give a two-tone interior. The changes can be easily see from the steering, door panel, the center console as well as the outer ring of the air con vents.

The seats will be wrapped with the two-tone leather seats, and contrast threads for the stitching. Ford US also did not forget to add a pair of embossed Fiesta logo on the front seats.

From the exterior rear of the custom package Ford Fiesta,  a Black rear spoiler is fitted on and the bar along the Ford logo is painted black as well. Included as well would be a 16″ wheels and a tweak of a shorter final gear ratio (from 4.07 to 4.25)  for the manual transmission models. These packages is expected attract customers by allowing them to have more customized flavour of individual preferences to their Ford Fiesta right from the factory.

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