2005 Ford Fiesta ST150 from UK and Ireland - Comments

I would agree that it isn't as accurate as 0-100 but I certainly wouldn't write it off as meaningless. On british roads 0-60 is often all that is achievable and as such is important. Do over a ton and you lose your liscense, so some people may not care about a car which is quicker in unusable power bands (not me personally). I do see how cars such as saxo vts' which are only quick to 60 get shown as being similar to cars which in reality are much faster (e.g. leon cupra, or zr 160) using this method though.

I'm sorry, but is this site run by 16y/o kids who get their information from the 0-60 section from the latest Max Power? Once you actually start driving you soon realise how pointless 0-60 is.. OK, 0-60 and 0-100 times might give a rough indication to the cars capability, but splitting hairs over it is pointless. Take the car to a drag strip and you'l soon realise this - I've beaten countless amounts of cars that were faster than mine on paper but had a slightly less competent driver behind the wheel as well as being beaten loads of times by slower cars but better drivers than me!!

Take it for what it is, a compact small car that is very competent at the whole 'being a small hatch' thing but has a nice wedge of power to stop it being borgin. Its NOT a race car so please, if you decide to buy one, please don't sit next to me at a red light and race me off when it goes green like most of the other ST owners do.. - Grow up.

You know what, I agree, I own an ST and I've owned plenty of other fast hatchbacks. The ST is fastish, but no more fun than an old 205 GTi. But I don't care, it's fun, it's reliable and good value for money. Stop trying to justify why you own one and just enjoy it instead.

I'm planning to have the Full Monty Mountune kit bolted to my near-new standard Fiesta ST. Obviously I want to keep the warranty intact. However, one small problem: Parking what sounds like a flack-holed Battle of Britain Spitfire in my cul-de-sac at 2am in the morning isn't exactly going to earn me a meal ticket at the next street party.

What's the best solution? Mountune say the offending pipe was engineered as an integral part of the kit and can't be dropped from the package. Is there a retrofit muffler for what would be a fantastic but otherwise obscenely rude caster-wheeled fart box?