Looks like ford have luanched an official site not only for the ST but all sports series fiesta's.

Going to motorshow friday, if i only get a sit in my new motor it will be worth it! lol

http://www.ford.co.uk/ie/fie_experience/-/fie_spt_ser

Copy that into a browser!

Just spotted that myself - pretty cool, and an obvious indication that the RS will be part of the line up!

Oh, and welcome to the forum mate!

I've copied this as I've posted it on a few other forums.......

Ford have launched a new marketing and information web site:

http://www.fiestasportseries.com

If you have a look on here and register, it counts your registration towards the numbers Ford will use as 'interested customers' which in turn will increase the chance of the RS being made! Please visit and register your interest!

Sorry if loads of you are already aware of this!

I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THIS!!!

Spoke to loads of people at Ford, and pushed them to give me some details. They are saying roughly £11.5k for the Zetec S, £13k for the ST and £17 for the RS.

Excellent, that means it should be about 10k for me.

Autocar this week also speculates that the RS will now be Sept '06 rather than March time.

More saving time But I wonder if that will then be after the current fiesta gets a facelift which should be '06 if the usual 4 year life cycle carries on.

I would expect the RS next year some time. Any later and they'll get too close to the end of the current Fiesta run. The next Fiesta will apparently retain the same basic shape as this one, but be signifficantly different with the detailing. Ford HQ are concerned that the current Fiesta doesn't have as much "emotional appeal" as other small hatch backs (e.g. Micra). So basically, they've gotta get the RS out before they change the Fiesta!

Mmm interesting with the prices there, as recently I've learnt that the Duratec 2.0L engine is very tunable and that Ford are purposly leave the engine open for tuners, I think it makes sense for those prices... simply because I think with miminal tuning the ST will be a good contender for the Clio etc So the RS will just be spectacular!!!

I like the idea of low power outputs as standard. It'll keep the insurance cheap, and it will be easy for people to extract more power if they want it. Much the same as the old Cossies - you could easily turn up the boost and get more power if you could afford the extra insurance!

No offence Scotty mate, but I think the Ford dealers are almost invariably the last to know when a car can be expected - the decision is made very high up and is never cascaded down until they are confident enough to do so.

Ford have said that future performance models such as the Fiesta RS won't be delayed like the Focus RS was. So in theory it shouldn't be a massive wait. I would expect 12 to 18 months.