
Ford Fiesta ST (Mk7)
Reference — shown, never scored
Why 8.1: The cheapest real driver's car of its decade — bought with own money, driven daily, worth nothing, worth everything. The purest ownership profile in the index after the Caterham.
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · $19k (2015) → $11k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
The long version
Nobody has ever tried to speculate on a Fiesta ST; there is no six-figure auction fantasy to chase, so the entire ownership population is just people who wanted a cheap car that is fun on the way to work, and the value chart confirms it, a steady slide toward four figures that never once interrupts itself with a flipper spike. That collapse is exactly what makes the Bargain Window real for the next buyer, who inherits a genuinely sorted chassis for beer money and puts the same kind of miles on it the first owner did. Four badges on one car is a lot, but this is what zero pretension looks like on paper.