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noshownogo
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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:17 am
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As a former Ford Focus owner, i know good news doh come too often to blue oval owners especially in T&T. So here my friends I present to you, some good news for FORD...
First Focus RS rolls off Ford assembly line in Germany
Ford reconnected this week in earnest with the 38 year history of its RS badge when the first production Focus RS rolled off the assembly line in Germany. The 300 horsepower front-drive hot hatch is being built at Ford's Saarlouis plant, alongside the rest of the European-spec Focus line-up, but with the performance bits (including a trick differential) installed by a dedicated team of technicians.
The Focus RS is the most extreme performance version of the company's staple hatchback, taking the Focus ST we drove in Belgium as its point of departure, and then dialing it up to 11. Unfortunately, while 20 European countries are slated to receive the Focus RS when it hits the market in April, it isn't slated to reach the American market; at least not in its current incarnation. But with Ford's new focus (sorry) on integrating its products globally – including the merger of the European (TeamRS) and American (SVT) performance engineering divisions – maybe, just maybe, we could see an RS version of the next Focus Stateside.
See Hi-Res slide show of 2009 RS below!
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-focus-rs-in-blue/1214356/ |
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thegtiman
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:53 am
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| Drove it. Best base car like this out there for under £25K |
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gfbl
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Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:48 pm
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| damnn thats wettt |
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TK!
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Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:18 pm
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*steups... still FWD ...
can someone educate us on that reasoning? besides saying that AWD is more expensive. |
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thegtiman
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:19 pm
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| TK! wrote: | *steups... still FWD ...
can someone educate us on that reasoning? besides saying that AWD is more expensive. |
AWD is heavy and would have cost more to develop the powertrain to have the same drive feel that it currently has. The revo knockle suspension aids traction along with the LSD diff in front. Unlike the old RS you can go into a corner even in the damp and flaten the throttle and its 440Nm willl just keep you going. The old RS would torque steer like mad. This was solved in the latest RS.
Having driven this I can easily say this car is the best hatch out there that under £25K can buy straight out the showroom and you have to do nothing to improve.
You should know that in order to establish this car's character the benchmarks were the BMW 135i, Subaru Ver 9 STi , EVO FQ 300 and R32 Golf Mk5. So it did not make production by chance. |
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