The greatest driving route you have ever heard of. Because it is 400 meters underground.

It's not unusual for a builder to release a video showing his latest and latest performance pattern ruthlessly beaten on a superb race track or spectacular drive the road, after all it's exactly what performance cars make us want to do.

But Ford went a step further with his latest video for the new version of the small Fiesta ST. Well, "several hundred meters lower" is actually a more accurate description.

Shot 400 meters underground in an unnamed salt mine in Europe, the new video shows the ST Fiesta being battered as it should be by Welsh WRC driver Elfyn Evans not only on race roads incredibly wide and flat, but also around heavy and awesome machines, with some jumps and a good old burnout inverted FWD for good measure.

"Salt is actually like fine gravel to drive, slippery enough to be honest, especially on road tires," Evans said. "You expect it to be claustrophobic, but it's rather the opposite, a good place to really enjoy the new Fiesta ST."

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Shot as part of Ford's # The Greatest Driving Roads series of Europe, which placed a series of vehicles from Ford performance – including the Ford GT, Ford Focus RS and Ford Mustang Convertible – in some of the most spectacular environments on the continent, the new video has taken a different path (so to speak) heading towards the subway.

Ford also made a second video "behind the scenes" throwing interesting facts about the mysterious salt mine.

The salt mine consists of a network of 60 kilometers. tunnels, where temperatures are a constant 16 C and safet The precautions required that a skeleton crew be used for shooting three days amid strict safety precautions.

"The tragedy of the tunnels and the ability to show Fiesta ST's ability on a different type of surface was a big part of the choice – that unique location," said Leo Roeks, director of Ford Performance. "It was not a typical race track, it was somewhere we could drive this great car to its full potential."

The Fiesta ST will be heading to New Zealand in the first half of next year. a more powerful engine and an "advanced chassis technology".

Exciting for fans of powerful triples (us!), It will be powered by a new turbo 1.5-liter 147kW / 290Nm three-cylinder turbo engine The new ST should reach 100 km / h in 6.7 seconds, two tenths more than the previous model. ST has landed here at $ 34,990, making it one of the best "bang for you buck" options available. [19659021] – Stuff