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Written by Chris Harris
It is rare for a car to achieve total domination in its class, but the last Fiesta ST managed just that shutting down the competition to little more than a murmur at the back of the room. This latest version is probably set to worsen conditions for the opposition. Because it just feels right. Rightness is the great intangible of car testing and elicits more cries of bulls*** from editors than any other word. But shuffle into the Fiesta"s big, bolstered seat and wriggle your hands over the wheel and you"ll find yourself thinking: "This feels right." It drives right, too 200bhp gives it real punch, and the chassis is super-talented. It isn"t perfect the engine is too reluctant to shed revs on a trailing throttle and the whole thing is a bit too Essex for some tastes, but this is still the best small hot hatch on sale. And it costs less than the optional extras fitted to the new G63. By the time you"ve stopped to ask yourself why you"re hooning a two-and-a-lot tonne SUV around a track, you"re probably having too much fun to care about the answer. I think Mercedes has played a blinder here the world has been wondering what a reimagined Land Rover Defender might look like for the past decade and then along comes Merc and executes a perfect job of rebooting the G for 2018. It drives well, you can now sit an adult behind the driver and the boot is big enough. This thing has the charm to cripple sales of other 150k SUVs. Unlike the Lamborghini Urus, which I didn"t drive because I just didn"t really want to.
Date written: 10 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13996
It is rare for a car to achieve total domination in its class, but the last Fiesta ST managed just that shutting down the competition to little more than a murmur at the back of the room. This latest version is probably set to worsen conditions for the opposition. Because it just feels right. Rightness is the great intangible of car testing and elicits more cries of bulls*** from editors than any other word. But shuffle into the Fiesta"s big, bolstered seat and wriggle your hands over the wheel and you"ll find yourself thinking: "This feels right." It drives right, too 200bhp gives it real punch, and the chassis is super-talented. It isn"t perfect the engine is too reluctant to shed revs on a trailing throttle and the whole thing is a bit too Essex for some tastes, but this is still the best small hot hatch on sale. And it costs less than the optional extras fitted to the new G63. By the time you"ve stopped to ask yourself why you"re hooning a two-and-a-lot tonne SUV around a track, you"re probably having too much fun to care about the answer. I think Mercedes has played a blinder here the world has been wondering what a reimagined Land Rover Defender might look like for the past decade and then along comes Merc and executes a perfect job of rebooting the G for 2018. It drives well, you can now sit an adult behind the driver and the boot is big enough. This thing has the charm to cripple sales of other 150k SUVs. Unlike the Lamborghini Urus, which I didn"t drive because I just didn"t really want to.
Date written: 10 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13996
