• July 16, 2010

Ford is putting 43 of the Fiesta compact cars it has been using in its Fiesta Movement program out to pasture, literally.

The Fiestas will be part of a rally-racing experience program via Team O'Neil Rally School in Dalton, N.H.

The Ford Racing Fiesta Rally Experience gives aspiring rally drivers a way to learn how to drive the grueling off-road race, which typically winds through hill and dale on gnarly dirt roads.

For the Fiesta rally experience, Team O'Neil will modify each production front-wheel-drive Fiesta with a roll bar, rally suspension and off-road tires, and will then feature Fiesta in its Ford Racing Fiesta Rally Experience.

Fiesta will be incorporated into Team O'Neil's one-day Ford Racing Fiesta Rally Experience and two-day Ford Racing Rally School. The cost per student for the one-day Ford Racing Fiesta Rally Experience is $495.--Karl Greenberg