The new Fiesta ST is an impressive piece of kit. I'm sure you have read the reports in the motoring press about it and on last weekends Top Gear? I've started to see a few on the road now, they look really nice. I used to run a Focus ST a few years back - a great car let down by awful Ford Dealer service.
Yeah, I've read the reviews and I saw it on TG the other week. I looked at the old ST when I bought the 100HP but it's the old style, expensive to insure and has a crap engine. From what I read, the Zetec S from that generation was a better drive. The cheapest new style ST on autotrader is 15k at the moment...just a bit out of my student budget haha !