Ford New Zealand Creates Hot Sauce to Promote Limited Edition Fiesta ST

Ford ST Hot Sauce

The new limited edition Fiesta ST may be a hot looking car all by itself, but Ford’s New Zealand ad agency JWT decided to take things up a notch. The agency recruited chili sauce maker Chris Cullen of Cullys to create a special chill sauce containing the hottest chilies grown in New Zealand.

The sauce was created using the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, which clocks in at a tongue-melting 1.463 million on the Scoville scale, the measurement of spicy-heat created by American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville in 1912. By comparison the Habenero earns a rating of only 300,000 SHU.

A limited number of 3,000 bottles of the ST Hot Sauce bottles were produced, with 1500 finding their way onto tables at trendy Mexican restaurants and burger joints around Auckland. Others were sent to potential customers, while others were given away on the Ford New Zealand’s Facebook page.

[via Campaign Brief]

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