Here’s our first look at the all-new 2018 Ford Fiesta subcompact, courtesy of Ford of Europe’s Twitter account. The redesigned hatchback won’t make its official debut until later today, so we don’t have details, but the photo does show the Fiesta’s new design, at least in its Europe-spec form.
With headlights and a grille shape that largely mimic the bigger Focus, the Fiesta’s face doesn’t come as too much of a surprise. Its stance is wider and lower compared with the current Fiesta, and the side surfacing appears a bit more refined. The four-door hatch pictured above has the sporty ST Line trim package that Europeans get, with a body kit and upsized wheels, but it isn’t the full-blown Fiesta ST hot hatch that we’re holding out for. That performance-oriented Fiesta is likely to come out a few months later than the standard model.
All Fiestas will ride on the same B platform as the outgoing model and are expected to use updated versions of the same 1.6-liter four-cylinder, 1.0-liter turbo three-cylinder, and 1.6-liter turbo four-cylinder engines of the current car. Rather than a mechanical overhaul, Ford has made revisions to focus on improving interior quality and increasing the level of available technology.
We’ll get a lot more information on the new Fiesta later today, and U.S.-specific details should follow the European model’s debut by a few months. The Fiesta is expected to arrive on our shores late next year as a 2018 model, with the Fiesta ST to follow shortly after that.
BREAKING NEWS: Feast your eyes on the first ever photos of the Next Generation #FordFiesta ST-Line #GoFurther http://pic.twitter.com/kYyDRtdrcy
— Ford in Europe (@FordEu) November 29, 2016
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