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ALL IN ONE

Achieving huge performance yet keeping a professional finish is a hard trick to pull off if you’re building a project. Usually, one will suffer long before the other is accomplished. But this ultra-tidy Mk1 Fiesta happens to manage both and with no halfhearted measures either. The show car look of the perfectly-fitted arches and immaculate paint is backed up with a colossal 526 bhp, thanks a neat ST170 turbo engine mounted in the rear. As the whole car weighs in at a featherweight 820 kg, that equates to a monstrous 642 bhp per tonne, which is a figure that puts virtually every supercar ever made to shame.

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