Ford Fiesta Shogun

Of the fiesta with festiva joins a litany of european cars supplanted by models built in places with more favorable exchange rates.

Ford fiesta shogun. Beck who was known for creating some wild cars took titus s idea and ran with it. Prior to this switcheroo. Jay leno s nitrous injected ford shogun a tiny festiva with a mid mounted taurus sho engine. The laggardly replacement in the u s.

The ford festiva shogun is the crazy mid engined hatch ford never made with a v6 from the taurus sho mounted in the middle it s like a group b car for the street. An overpowered box instead of an underpowered box isn t necessarily. They re ford festiva lx s with the taurus sho mechanicals. The ford festiva shogun was a factory econobox special sports car with mid engine layout which has achieved collectable status.

The ford festiva is a subcompact car that was marketed by ford between 1986 and 2002. It also sports boyd coddington wheels vdo gauges and massive fender flares that remind us of ken block s latest ford focus rs rx. That goes for the wild taurus sho v6 powered shogun version in jay leno s garage as well. While nobody would mistake the lowly ford festiva as a performance vehicle the shogun packed a 220 horsepower secret behind its front seats in the form of a v6 engine yanked from a ford taurus.

Festiva was sold in japan the americas and australia the name festiva is derived from the spanish word for festive it was not related to the similarly sized and named ford fiesta and was not replaced by the ford ka which is smaller. Its a newer faster renault 5 turbo cavennes on steroids id like to see a comp review with this the renault 5 and the clio trophy all 3 are 2 seat compacts with the engine in place of a backseat. The ford festiva was not a good car.