Fiesta RS? A New Ford XR?

Ford has been turning the rumour mill this week, with hints that a new Fiesta RS may be on the line up this year. Ford has also made it very clear they still own the XR badge which brought us cars like the fiesta XR2 and the Escourt XR3i Ford said the XR badge is merly taking a long term holiday and is not retired yet. I'd like to see a fiesta RS first personaly but a new sporty fiesta with any badge wouldn't go a miss.

The sad news is ford did say the chance of us ever seeing a cosworth badged ford is HIGHLY unlikely and with Subaru showing there new cosworth off it looks like a ford cosworth is dead in the water. Very high demand in america for a sporty fiesta thou could bring a sporty fiesta to our roads for this time next year. The fact that Ken Block drives a WRC Fiesta shows that it can be done and with Ken Block driving it all petrol heads want a peace but there's alot to change to make a road going version.

Ofcourse Ford will follow the golden rule, release a fiesta ST, get good sales then bring out an RS and ofcourse if that does well maybe a WRC or XR? least we can dream it will get that far we all need a small toy.

The main problem is the UK is a odd market were one of a few global markets to fords and were about the only one who likes small sporty hatchbacks.