Impulse buy: 2015 Fiesta ST

[Senor_Taylor]

So far, so good. It's been driven by at least 6 different people and each and every one of those people drove it much harder than I have or probably will. Sitting in the back seat when the turbo hits 21PSI is comical. The exhaust has no tone, just the sound of air wooshing through a pipe at that point. It sounds like a vacuum cleaner next to your ear. The intake lets out the best turbo noises and the occasional turbo flutter (the best sounding way for your car to be killing itself).

You may all get flashbacks to the GTI from this next sentence, but the car was sold to me with a bumper to bumper warranty for 3 months, so I'll be taking it in Monday to address a cracked door card, paint bubbling under the bottom of the hatch, and a potentially sticking caliper. After that... it may be getting an accessport that I may have bought off someone on Facebook and may be getting scammed with. I don't want to add power, I just want a two-step and a "crackle and pop" tune so I can impress the middle schoolers down the street. Obviously this was not a good choice and I shouldn't have spent that money, so maybe I'll try to sell it for more than I paid (which was not that much).

The driving experience is vastly different than the GTI. It FEELS faster even though it's clearly not. The wild torque steer is novel for now, but you're much less isolated than the GTI was. I think the GTI was TOO good and the Fiesta is just raw enough to make it feel sportier. The lack of the magical Golf R LSD is apparent and kind of a bummer, but I imagine better tires will solve a lot of the "don't do more than 40% power with the wheel turned unless you want to turn your tires into dust" problem.

Ford Sync 3 is actually really nice. The screen looks great. The sound system is fine. No features from the GTI that the fiesta doesn't have are missed yet.