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The Fiesta, perky and up-and-at’em little tearaway that it is, has always been a bit of a trailblazer. When the first iteration scampered onto the forecourts back in 1976, it offered something entirely at odds with the rest of Ford’s line-up: it was a hatchback, and the driven wheels were at the front. Imagine! Such visionary thinking. And the number-crunchers clearly knew what they were up to; their £550m development budget was rewarded by sales of over ten million Fiestas worldwide across eight generations. Not bad.
The mildly reworked Mk2 Fiesta that arrived in 1983 sported a number of significant changes: the engine bay was more capacious so that bigger engines and five-speed gearboxes could be squeezed in, there was the option of a continuously-variable automatic transmission and, most excitingly
