Quite a lot of what you're seeing here can probably be traced back to the fact that Ben Sher's first ever Ford was a Racing Puma. As introductions to a marque go, that's a pretty darned forthright way to jump in with both feet. The Racing Puma was essentially a caricature of the regular production Puma, adding in cartoonishly wide wings and arches that made it look like an everyday example had been overinflated with some manner of industrial air pump, while the drivetrain and interior were colourfully refracted through a motorsport filter. And that, essentially, is what Ben's done to this Fiesta. The potential was there, the basic profile was good, he just felt a strong compulsion to amp it up a bit.
“My first car was an EP3 Honda Civic Type R, which really got me hooked onto fast cars,” he explains. “But coming from a family of Ford lovers, there was only one way this was going to go! I wentgood reason to move it on though, as what followed was rather impressive: a Fiesta RS Turbo shell kitted out with an ST170 engine on danST throttle bodies. That was built as a track car, although he found that he wasn't able to get as much track time as he'd ideally like, so the Fiesta was moved on and replaced by a Hyundai i30 N as a daily, plus something a little bit frisky on the side. And that frisky thing is what you're looking at here – a Mk6 Fiesta with the crazy dial turned up to eleven.
