I always take these magazine reviews with a shovel full of salt. As impartial as these reviewers try to be, I still feel their personal opinion gets in the way and the are often not logical in their methods of evaluation., especially since they have included the Fiesta because they love it rather than the fact it fits in to the review.
The British motoring press has a love of German cars that overrides everything else, and that usually ends up being translated in to "Mini is better", although the new Fiesta is getting all the love at the moment even though there's no power version yet.