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TEXT: JAVIER ROMAGOSA / VIDEO: CAR MAGAZINE AND KUKFILMS
We have recently started working with the general magazine Car Magazine, from which they have asked us to approach en ADIEX a priori worlds as distant as those of classic and modern cars. And is that, is there a connection point? Has technology left any loopholes for traditional driving?
It is true that cars are getting heavier and more powerful; they are full of controls and aids that make it possible for even the least experienced driver to fully tread in a sports car with several hundred horses; they are a wonder of softness, they do not smell, they do not creak ... I mean, they are somewhat boring.
But always, at least until the arrival of the autonomous car, something remains: It is that communion with the machine that can still be found in small sporty cars, in which neither functionality nor savings have managed to make a dent in the fun…
First Video: Ford Fiesta ST 200 Vs. Ford Fiesta XR2
So we start our series comparing in ADIEX a brand new Ford Fiesta ST200 and a rabid Ford Fiesta XR2 of 1989.
El Ford Fiesta ST200 translates into modern times the philosophy of the vitaminized utility that worked so well in the 80s. With 200 turbo horsepower and around 1.200 kilos of weight, it modernizes the concept of hot hatchback popularized since the beginning of the decade by classics such as the VW Golf GTI, the Peugeot 205 GTI, the Renault 5 GT Turbo or the Ford Fiesta XR2, to name just a few models.
As were its predecessors, the ST party 200 it is a driving school; and like them, he is still capable of transmitting sensations. And if we talk about the modern like that, what we will not say about the classic ...
Ford Fiesta XR2: Eighties Essence
El Ford Fiesta XR2 The second generation was produced between 1984 and 1989 and was the continuation of the previous model. He mounted the new CVH engine instead of the old Kent and its power was set at 95 hp, more than enough to move its 800 kilos of weight with ease. At the time it was the top of the Fiesta range and its main weakness were the brakes, whose scheme was - and is - discs in front and drums in the rear.
Currently, its owner also misses a slightly firmer suspension ... But the truth is that the XR2 Party It is quite a toy that links mousetrap curves at a blazing speed. A whole amusement machine at the service of driving pleasure and which does not cease to be versatile; This is another of the secrets of the GTI formula, which does not compromise.
These acronyms are the essence of XNUMXs motorsport, a time when the sports car was democratized in the form of compact with false fins, grilles and bulky fog lights, with fat carburetors and a sound that falls in love.
All that his successors are now trying to accomplish as modern times dictate.
