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The 2017 Ford Fiesta WRC sounds amazing!

Watch Elfyn Evans blasting M-Sport’s new challenger through the French Alps during a recent test.

Written by Greg Stuart

1 min readPublished on 11.12.2016 · 18:19 UTC

Elfyn Evans in M-Sport's new Fiesta
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Preparations are underway for the 2017 World Rally Championship season, with manufacturers – although sadly not Volkswagen following the announcement that they were withdrawing from the sport at the end of 2016 – testing their new cars.

MORE: Ex-WRC champions react to Volkswagen's departure from top-level rallying.

These new cars are set to be the most radical World Rally Championship machines since the Group B era of the 1980s, with bigger aero packages and increased turbo boost bringing the cars’ horsepower figures up from around 315bhp to nigh on 380bhp.

MORE: How WRC turbochargers work.

M-Sport driver Elfyn Evans has been busy testing the team’s 2017 Ford Fiesta in south-eastern France – and it sounds like a beast! Check out the videos below, posted by rally fan Anthony Bailet, as Evans pedals the Fiesta through a string of Monte Carlo-esque mountain passes. Bring on 2017!

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