Evo Magazine Takes the Ford Fiesta R5 Out on the Road
If you have $230,000 to throw at a supercar right now, then your choices are pretty obvious; Ferrari’s 458 Italia or McLaren’s 12C. But what if you want something totally different? M-Sport, the company that runs Ford’s World Rally Championship team, has a new car for sale called the Fiesta R5. It’s built to compete in the FIA’s new R5 category, but because it uses more parts from Ford’s road car parts bin, it costs less than half of the price of the full factory team WRC cars.
Since WRC cars are built to be road legal so that they can drive between stages on public roads, there’s really no reason you couldn’t register it (good luck with that in the US, though) and drive it to work everyday. In this video, Evo’s Henry Catchpole takes the Fiesta R5 out on public roads to find out what it’s like to drive. Would you take one over a Ferrari or McLaren? It’s tempting.
