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Old 23 Jan 2019, 16:05 (Ref:3877967)   #11
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Originally Posted by BertMk2 View Post
Interesting - I'm looking forward to seeing how that car goes compared with the other Fiestas. What was the appeal of importing that from the states rather than buying one of the European based Fiestas?
I would say the M-Sport Fiesta was easily the best of the Fords available at the time. OMSE, MJP and STARD may have closed the gap now but, if I had the cash*, that's where I'd go!

(* a very large boatload of cash)

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Originally Posted by crossfades View Post
When I saw Block with it (the GRX Fiesta by the way) in Norway in 2014, you could literally feel the ground vibrating when he accelerated out of the last corner. That car was really something else compared to the rest back then.
I believe the car Block used in Europe in 2014 wasn't his GRX Fiesta (the RX43), it was a second M-Sport car. That Fiesta was subsequently used by Niclas Gronholm and is the car that Nitiss won the Euro title with last year.

My experience as a spectator (Loheac 2014) was the same as yours though: the car sounded absolutely savage on the overrun. I hope the Thomas car sounds like that!
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