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Big Black Beast
02-10-2010, 05:21 PM
In case anybody is interested...

http://www.motortrend.com/future/future_vehicles/112_1004_hot_version_of_new_fo rd_focus/index.html
ImpalaSlayer
02-10-2010, 05:23 PM
what the hell is the point? ill never understand
ntd
02-10-2010, 05:28 PM
Looks really good but don't think we will get the focus RS or some other form. Working for FORD and I know a few engineers I've heard no buzz about this, but I hope I'm wrong
Big Black Beast
02-10-2010, 05:28 PM
what the hell is the point? ill never understand

To sell more cars than anybody else.
SpartaPerformance
02-10-2010, 05:30 PM
What's the point?? Look up the current European RS Focus, it's an awesome car! Whipped up on WRX STi and Lancer Evo X. It's a great car.
ImpalaSlayer
02-10-2010, 05:33 PM
What's the point?? Look up the current European RS Focus, it's an awesome car! Whipped up on WRX STi and Lancer Evo X. It's a great car.

i dont care how fast or awesome it is look at it!
ntd
02-10-2010, 05:37 PM
i dont care how fast or awesome it is look at it!

Why not steal a few hot rod subcompact sales from the import company's while ford is kicking all the domestic company butts:D.
ImpalaSlayer
02-10-2010, 05:48 PM
Why not steal a few hot rod subcompact sales from the import company's while ford is kicking all the domestic company butts:D.

i mean i guess, just never really thought of that.
cougar9150
02-10-2010, 05:58 PM
I would rock it, drove one of the RS's when I was in Switzerland and it was a fun, fast, little car. Great for mountain carving.

Not sure if I would want it for American roads as I hardly even feel safe with most of the idiots out there.
babbage
02-10-2010, 06:12 PM
I would rock it, drove one of the RS's when I was in Switzerland and it was a fun, fast, little car. Great for mountain carving.

Not sure if I would want it for American roads as I hardly even feel safe with most of the idiots out there.


heh-heh. Funny. (but true) I always liked the Escort Cosworth!
SpartaPerformance
02-10-2010, 07:22 PM
I would rock it, drove one of the RS's when I was in Switzerland and it was a fun, fast, little car. Great for mountain carving.

Not sure if I would want it for American roads as I hardly even feel safe with most of the idiots out there.

Hell yeah, my cousin in Greece has a 2003 RS Focus and that car is great!! It handles like it's on rails, he took me for a blast through some mountain hair pin turns.... scared the sh%t out of me.
cougar9150
02-10-2010, 08:22 PM
heh-heh. Funny. (but true) I always liked the Escort Cosworth!

Yet another great car we never officially got here in the US. Always wanted one and I know a few ended up over here on unofficial terms


Hell yeah, my cousin in Greece has a 2003 RS Focus and that car is great!! It handles like it's on rails, he took me for a blast through some mountain hair pin turns.... scared the sh%t out of me.

The handling was what makes the car, just point it and it went. My Swiss friend Jakob though I was going to take us over a cliff, because I got a little wild on some small mountain roads. Easy to get comfortable with and very easy to fling around with reckless abandon without being too reckless (did that make sense?).

Only comparable small car I had drove prior to that was my dads 2 Merkur XR4TIs. What a blast both of them were until he let them both go to hell and ended up scrapping them. :mad2: Told him I would of happily taken them off his hands and given him the auto back once it was cleaned up.
bawazir
02-10-2010, 09:33 PM
Looks like a Toyota matrix, ugly and slow
SpartaPerformance
02-11-2010, 10:33 AM
Looks like a Toyota matrix, ugly and slow

Far from ugly and far from slow I assure you on that one!!
cougar9150
02-11-2010, 10:47 AM
Far from ugly and far from slow I assure you on that one!!

++10 on this point. 305 hp/325 ft-lbs of torque and a much reduced weight compared to the MM. 60 mph in less than 6 seconds, (can't find actual 1/4 mile times), w/164 mph limiter. Doesn't sound slow to me.....

One of these will destroy stock to lightly modified MMs. Plus it will out handle many cars on the road because it has nearly zero body roll, and great steering response.

I took the 02 I drove through corners like a maniac and it barely rolled or swayed at all. Like driving with stick em on the wheels to the point I thought it was AWD at first. The new one has even more power than the mark 1 and mark 2 versions of the RS so I am not sure how it can be considered slow because with about 50 less HP the older versions were still quick. Plus in Europe these are huge tuner cars and get the crap tweaked out of them. People in the UK are as nuts about these small cars as most Americans are for our V8s and there is a huge aftermarket following making performance possibilities endless.
MrBluGruv
02-11-2010, 10:52 AM
I think one of these would be great fun, ideal car for someone who wants to have fun while on a practical budget.
Big Black Beast
02-11-2010, 02:41 PM
Ford is hinting the 4 cyl ecoboost that is being developed for the next gen Explorer might make it into it.

BTW, The european Focus and the North American Focus have been COMPLETELY different cars up to now. The Focus we have here doesn't compare at all. That is about to change. Plus, there will be a Mercury badged version, shich EVERYBODY should be interested about, because sales keep the brand ALIVE. Once they quit making the Grand Marquis, there will only be the Milan, Mountaineer, and that other SUV, M-something, whose name I forgot suddenly.