I liked the original RS and I like the current ST...but this blows them both out the water.



Ford is rumoured to be considering a 350bhp, four-wheel-drive, six-cylinder turbocharged proposal for the next-generation Focus RS. Right now the Blue Oval’s executives at the company’s headquarters in Cologne, Germany are considering a plan to fit Ford’s new flagship hot hatch, due out in 2007, with a new turbocharged in-line six-cylinder engine.

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If only we could get cool stuff.

 

Hell if that thing were available here, I'd be considering a Ford

I wouldn't mind having a little hatch with that kind of power.

 

Europe will get that one, America will get the plain old Focus with an optional "Rally Package" which will include lame graphics, possibly racing stripes, different "sport" wheels (hubcaps?) that are the same size as the stockers, and about 120 face-liquefying horses.

You know, you'd think we'd get the good stuff here seeing as Ford is an American company.

 

Could Ford really do that here in North America, then what would become of their precious Mustang?

 

You would think that, but it's comes down to the same reason we don't get any of the awesome euro/asian only cars.

Who is going to pay $30k+ for a car and still be proud to say they drive a Focus anything with a straight face in the US? People are too concerned with image here, it's the same reason that most people have problems with the STi and Evo. Because they are based on an economy-based car and cost more that $10k, doesn't matter what they can do, it's a matter of what will I look the best in, sad really

That plus this thing would rip the new Mustang a new a-hole and we certainly wouldn't want that

 

Yeah let's take a crappy car and soup it up.

What does that remind me of....

...can someone say SRT-4!

 

I wonder why they'd take a financial hit w/ a turbo v6, when they've got a fine Turbo Four in the MS 6?

 

hehe i like that car..but alas i agree we will never see it over here

 

:D

 

Crappy car that would whomp everyone's behind including in the corners. Heck the Focus RS is kick ***. Besides, the European Focus has better quality than the American Focus.

Oh well...

 

ah i woudl love to get this car for my girl..she goes to school in teh mountains and that woud lbe a blast to drive up there :D but alas we dont 'get the good one..

 

Like the Ford Falcon from Austrailia, turbo v-6 and stick. Being in the USA sucks for car selection sometimes, like the 96+ rx-7's

 

WTF??

 

Yeah let's take a good but ugly car and soup it up.

What does that remind me of....

...can someone say WRX! :D :p

 

I think Ford may be positioning that new Focus RS to compete with Audi's new RS3. Both are AWD hatches with a projected 350hp. I think the Audi is a TT V6 though.