Ford Fiesta S1600 Limited Edition 2011
The S1600 is a limited edition Ford Fiesta which was produced in 650 copies a few months ago. The cars in this series have been quickly exhausted, and the manufacturer has thus decided to produce another 500 models of the Fiesta S1600. These are not exactly the same as the previous 650, but received a slight power increase. The new version of the car is, like the previous one, based on the Ford Fiesta Zetec S and has some stylistic and technical elements that make it different and unique compared to the popular compact car series.
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Officially Official: 2011 Ford Fiesta rated at 40 mpg highway
The EPA has finished calculating the fuel economy of the 2011 Ford Fiesta and, as the automaker projected, its new baby has hit 40 miles per gallon. The official numbers from the Feds are 29 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway for Fiestas with the new 6-speed dual clutch Powershift gearbox. Those highway numbers top the ratings for the Toyota Yaris and Honda Fit by four and five mpg, respectively.
Fiestas with the base five-speed manual gearbox get a good-but-not-as-good rating of 28 mpg city and 37 mpg highway. All North American Fiestas, for now, are equipped with a 120 horsepower 1.6-liter inline four, regardless of which gearbox is selected. The first batches of Fiestas should be on their way to dealers in the coming weeks now that production has started.
First Drive: 2010 Ford SVT Raptor 6.2 is born to fly
Unless you’re a died-in-the-burlap save-the-planet kind of person, you probably think the 2010 Ford SVT Raptor is freakin’ cool. There’s not a factory truck on the planet that can wing across the desert floor with equal ease, grace and unmitigated speed.
The 2010 Raptor genuinely has no competition In the world of production trucks, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. If you bent the ear of the right Ford engineer, he would admit that the 2010 Ford SVT Raptor was supposed to launch with the 6.2-liter SOHC V8 we’re testing today. The aging 310-horsepower 5.4-liter Triton mill included at launch was never the perfect fit for the radical Raptor. Too tame.
From the truck’s introduction last Fall, everyone knew the all-new iron-block/aluminum-head 6.2-liter engine would be better. But no one knew how much better until now. Read about our wild test drive (and brief flight) after the ummm… jump.
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Report: Ford adding SuperCrew to SVT Raptor lineup
Ford‘s desert-clobbering SVT Raptor is already off to a relatively good start, and things are only poised to get better now that the automaker has shoehorned its new 6.2-liter V8 under the truck’s hood. Adding to that, the folks at InsideLine report that a four-door SuperCrew version of the Raptor is also in the cards, possibly slated to debut later this year.
IL states that mules of what appear to be a SuperCrew Raptor have been spotted near Ford’s headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. When prompted for a response, a spokesperson for the automaker simply said, “We do not comment on future product.” (We’ve heard that one a thousand times before.) Still, we don’t dispute IL’s predictions, and having four-door functionality only boosts the Raptor’s attractiveness to potential consumers.
