FORD FIESTA ST FROM $33,490

There’s a saying the car business that goes like this: “Performance costs money. How fast do you want to go?”

There’s much more to a great performance car than sheer speed, though, a fact well demonstrated by Ford’s Fiesta ST.

It’s not quite a hot hatch. With 147kW of power from a 1.5-litre three cylinder turbopetrol, let’s call it warm enough. But Ford of Europe, where the ST