Ford Fiesta ST v Volkswagen Polo GTI Comparison Review

City cars are enjoying a resurgence in Australia this year, with sales at their highest levels in recent history. Sharp prices, lots of equipment and high quality have been hallmarks of the newest arrivals, while performance hasn’t been forgotten either - as is the case with the reigning champion, the Ford Fiesta ST and the newly arrived Volkswagen Polo GTI. Sounds like time for a twin test.
Watch CarAdvice pit the Ford Fiesta ST and new manual Volkswagen Polo GTI against each other on track and on the road to find out which is best.
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[@Derively]

The Fiesta ST is amazing, almost legendary, the best in its class.

[@robayom1752]

The Fiesta ST is -amazing,- -almost-- legendary, the best in its class.

[@Shefton1]

I have the ST... makes me smile everyday. People are slowly catching on to how good this car is, as I'm starting to see more on the road. A true drivers car. Add a tune, bigger intake, downpipe and a few other performance upgrades and she is a little weapon now. Second gear pull will shock cars three to four times the price.

[@meganjay30]

Colt Rivers lol we got one too and yea its just awesome and is a demon on corners!! when parked beside a vw golf R or polo gti the fiesta ST looks 5 years ahead of the vw or more like the vw looks 5 years behind the fiesta... amazingly awesome car!!! must buy ;D

[@AR-fw5bn]

Jay McGregor the fiesta looks like cheap plastic, no class at all plus the manual gearbox it's rubbish

[@meganjay30]

you are... your name say so... "joe" on his "saxo" :D

[@stanleysoss]

rice rice baby

[@joshua4859]

@@meganjay30 the GTI is far better looking that the cheap ass fiesta. And the fiesta's interior is miles behind the VW. No comparison

[@joshparry3057]

Didn't know Jonjo Shelvey did car reviews

[@Bronzebk]

Fantastic review!

[@shinebox4181]

bin laden and putin doing carreviews

[@Drivecomau]

+Foot Companion - we get all the big names

[@Drivecomau]

Tim & Dave compare the Ford Fiesta ST vs the Volkswagen Polo GTI on the track.

[@velkymuftu]

My fiesta st spends about 5% in cities, 60% on highways and 35% on the mountain roads that it has been made for!!!

[@tigerbalm666]

Umm...you mean 80% found in roadside ditch?

[@PT111111]

If only the Fiesta ST comes with 4 doors. PS. Love the Initial D tshirt Dave!!

[@nikhilsharma3563]

Andy Mast in India polo gti comes with 3 door model but only dsg gearbox... At least u get manual in US... :'(

[@bongodave13]

“I spend most of my life whizzing hither and thither in exotica made from platinum and rhodium and fitted with engines that roar and bellow and spit fire. And all I want on the way home is a Ford Fiesta ST.” -Jeremy Clarkson www.motoringbox.com/cars/entertainment/the-grand-tour/jeremy-clarkson-in-cars-as-in-life-i-crave-the-simple-things/

[@user-ug1mn4zv4e]

is that the track that we often can see moog and marty from mcm drive around?? #mightycarmods

[@renes9966]

Great review - loved the more conversational, laid-back style compared to some of CA's other videos, which had the tendency to be a little clichéd, wooden and boring! A bit of humour goes a long way. Keep it up

[@Straker1923]

I own a 2015 Fiesta ST Bought new! Only my wife an I drive it (not boy racers now...lol)But just needed a quick car to get past dawdlers on our country roads. After 12 months of modest mileage ( 7-8000) the clutch went...and I managed to drive 25 miles home in third gear! How I did that is still a mystery? The following November (last year) the heater went....on the most Baltic of nights in Liverpool, faced with a 2 hour drive back home...brrrr. So, as the car will be 3 in February and out of it's guarantee, do I keep or sell? Bearing in mind the slave cylinder in the clutch would be over £500 fitted if it went out of guarantee and the heater f..k knows? Your opinions would be most welcome....and if you have to use bad language to make your point, then fine!

[@stevenrees6015]

That hair and beard will be on the internet forever.

[@JPTHRICE]

i love my st, i dont need no fancy crap and a company that thinks they are so much better than they actually are ( i also have a vw t4, biggest piece of shit trouble car ever and expensive as shit)

[@anthonyn021]

Ned Kelly's son?

[@SkippyTheRedKangaroo]

Nah - just another invisible hipster.

[@GeeeEm61]

Took the ST for two hammering test drives and absolutely loved it. Took a 3rd half hour test drive and drove it the way I normally drive 95% of the time, and 20 minutes in I knew it wasn't the car for me. That suspension is just too hard to live with day in, day out.

[@bendikvalen]

+Gee Em are you 60 years old?

[@betgom79]

+Gee Em I live in Mexico and I had to travel to Chihuahua 1,400kmts away between cities and I loved the way to drives the Fiesta ST, 230km/hr max, constant 160km/hr without any issue at all, and I drove the car in a daily basis and I love it too, so for me is an excellent car, have all that I need, luxury, good style, a lot of power, low gas consumption and the perfect size for me that drives from home to work and on return.

[@hayden123hs4]

St fiesta the best 🔥

[@ThisIsBarcode]

I got the GTi in 5-door manual, white with the black sunroof. Looks incredible and drives like a dream. ST is just a poor mans mid-life crisis car.

[@AR-fw5bn]

seems like you are the only sane person here

[@Andreas1818]

ThisIsBarcode Everyone drive a Polo = boring and most of them are females. Understandable since it looks like a chick car. Other than that Im sure the Polo is pleasent ownership.

[@AR-fw5bn]

again with opinions... its your useless opinion that it "looks like a chicks car". the polo can be boring as you would never have to open the bonnet to fix the car, unlike that ford.whats even worse is that by your standards the"chicks car" is faster.

[@Andreas1818]

Haha, there are some sensitive persons in the world. Can't take a joke. Who cares, buy whatever car that works for you. Don't listen to other ;) I know which one I rather be driving.

[@haloaum]

+akshaar ramsurwaj lol. Never have to open the bonnet? You are forgetting the dsg gearbox failures that VW ignored and told its customers here that there was nothing wrong with them while they were replacing it in other countries... Then the turbo engine failures... And now VW Cheated with its cheating software to make their cars perform better in tests... VW don't care about its customers and take them for fools..

[@tiedupsmurf]

A bit of squeal from the tyres .......really!!! No you don't say

[@ShaneSmith-io8bj]

i am 55 and have the polo, excites me more than a 25 year old blonde

[@cjdacka]

Ford looks way better. And it was way to scripted and annoying to watch.

[@damianthaver4856]

Putin in the beginning

[@Drivecomau]

+Damian Thaver Haha.

[@TyFrost]

I literally sold my Fiesta ST to buy a Polo GTI, The ST is way to hard and poorly built. Loving my Polo GTI.

[@Infinityhorus01]

Polo Gti is so much better, even the latest ST200 cant even get close to the Polos performance. The Polo feels so much more upmarket at basically the same price where i live. Its like a mid to upper mid range Audi but without the AWD unfortunately.

[@lecter7716]

That is some of the goofiest hair I've ever seen.

[@albertwolf8808]

ATE Continental Freins à disque avants ATE Continental qui équipent la Fiesta nouvelle neuve actuelle:voyez ,où plutôt écouter ce qui se passe lorsqu'on freine,c'est assourdissant,et ceci n'est qu'une partie de ces freins lamentables,car EN PLUS ,à l'arret,en tournant le volant à droite, comme à gauche,on doit suporter un craquement métallique,tout le temps.! Pour le chef d'atelier,c'est normal,mais après des milliers de kilomètres maintenant,les crissements de tôle en terminaison de freinage sont toujours làl et aussi dans les braquage de roues à l'arret! Pas la moindre amélioration! Mais ceci n'est pas sans conséquence pour Ford,car à cause de ces ATE Continental,autour de moi,plus personne ne veut prendre une Ford neuve.Qui voudrait avoir,à vie,une voiture qui fait un tel vacarme?! Qui plus est,invendable!

[@nelsonpires7355]

It depends on what you want out of your car... Fiesta = boy racer, Polo GTI = class and refinement. I know which one suits me

[@mc1996]

Polo GTI = some kid that couldn't afford the Golf but want pop and bangs and DSG farts.

[@tigerbalm666]

As a Speed3 driver, the GTi is simply a better made/design car than that Ford shitbox quality! Fiesta "rental" interiors and cheezy exteriors is no match for GTI's classy design. Fiesta will break down in 3 years and depreciation will be 50%...

[@jackiechan5626]

As a man with two legs, I think the fact you own a "Speed3" is completely fucking irrelevant and adds ZERO weight to your opinion.

[@andycollier1268]

OH MY GOD IT'S JACKIE CHAN!!

[@musclegto]

Fiesta will outlast the vw easily, noob

[@mills3375]

Respect your opinion but it’s also 90% wrong. The only thing you got right is the quality which isn’t shit nor outstanding. Fiesta looks much nicer on the outside, drives a million times better than the Polo and both have deprecated equally over time so yeah your statesman couldn’t be more wrong mate. Only reason why you’d buy the Polo is cause your a badge snob

[@Bryan-jj3if]

@@mills3375 couldn't have put it better myself, nice man lol

[@WeLoveToRevived]

please for real, which woman likes this unhygienic beard. Come on it looks just awful...