HIGHS Fun for any driving-skill level, thrifty fuel economy, high performance-per-dollar ratio. LOWS More horsepower would be welcome, limited back-seat legroom, nonexistent driver-assist tech.

For a major corporation obsessed with converting cars and trucks into dollars and cents, hot hatchbacks like the Ford Fiesta ST are mutant blips. Ford won’t say how many STs it hopes to sell in the ...

Now that Ford has two compact performance models in roughly the same price range, the reasonable driver will have questions. We're glad you asked, because the answers to the important questions are: ...

According to the phrase ‘you get what you pay for’, a bigger budget should mean a better buy. It’s often true, but not always; the Ford Fiesta ST proves that. Throughout its life, this hot hatch has ...

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Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

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