It's official: Focus RS is indeed on the way!
12/17/07, 05:46 AM
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It's official: Focus RS is indeed on the way!
http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/2496/
Technical details are scant, but the RS seems likely to get four-wheel drive and a twin-turbo version of the ST's 2.5-litre five-pot engine. That should be good for some 300bhp and a 0-60 time in the five-second bracket - genuine competition for the Subaru Impreza STi.
12/17/07, 07:40 AM
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Well, since we're getting the new Mk III Euro-Focus in MY 2010, maybe, just maybe, Mulally will nix the beancounters and tell them to bring a few thousand of these here as well. I SURE HOPE SO!!! WOW!!!
12/17/07, 09:44 PM
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Good news indeed! Now, will the U.S. market be similarly blessed? If WRX STi's and Lancer Evolutions can sell here, I don't see why a Focus RS couldn't do the same.
12/17/07, 10:59 PM
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12/18/07, 05:22 AM
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Topic headline had me believing it was on its way HERE.
Everyone knows that we don't need those expensive, overwrought Eurotrash Fords in North America. They'd cost to much and NEVER succeed here.
Everyone knows that we don't need those expensive, overwrought Eurotrash Fords in North America. They'd cost to much and NEVER succeed here.
12/18/07, 02:15 PM
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12/19/07, 02:28 AM
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I was being facetious. 
I agree they would do well with it IF they have the stones to bring it over here.
Ford needs to stop hoping and start DOING. Whatever happened to that whole multi-million dollar 'Bold Moves' campaign, anyway? That sure fizzled out quickly.
A little less talk and a little more action - REAL action - would benefit Ford immensely. Let's see what the January auto show brings...
Ford needs to stop hoping and start DOING. Whatever happened to that whole multi-million dollar 'Bold Moves' campaign, anyway? That sure fizzled out quickly.
A little less talk and a little more action - REAL action - would benefit Ford immensely. Let's see what the January auto show brings...
12/19/07, 10:50 AM
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To reflect another of Hollywood's posts:
Lutz says importing Astra saved $900 million
Ford just needs to poo or get off the pot, or hire Lutz who actually seems capable of getting the obvious done rather than trot out one excuse as to "why not" after another. If Ford would spend half the effort doing things as they do in doing studies why they can't, they'd be swimming in black ink rather than red and we'd have access to all those way-cool Euro and Aussie Fords.
Sell them through the currently useless Mercury division as upscale, driver-oriented vehicles, somewhat of a cross between what GM's Saturn (yuppie upscale) and Pontiac (driver/performance) divisions are evolving into.
Lutz says importing Astra saved $900 million
Ford just needs to poo or get off the pot, or hire Lutz who actually seems capable of getting the obvious done rather than trot out one excuse as to "why not" after another. If Ford would spend half the effort doing things as they do in doing studies why they can't, they'd be swimming in black ink rather than red and we'd have access to all those way-cool Euro and Aussie Fords.
Sell them through the currently useless Mercury division as upscale, driver-oriented vehicles, somewhat of a cross between what GM's Saturn (yuppie upscale) and Pontiac (driver/performance) divisions are evolving into.
12/19/07, 01:48 PM
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I would love to see a Focus RS in the states. I don't think it would ever happen. Ford wouldn't want their darling Mustang shown up by a Focus. The RS would embarass the Mustang in every aspect of performance.
12/19/07, 08:25 PM
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To reflect another of Hollywood's posts:
Lutz says importing Astra saved $900 million
Ford just needs to poo or get off the pot, or hire Lutz who actually seems capable of getting the obvious done rather than trot out one excuse as to "why not" after another. If Ford would spend half the effort doing things as they do in doing studies why they can't, they'd be swimming in black ink rather than red and we'd have access to all those way-cool Euro and Aussie Fords.
Sell them through the currently useless Mercury division as upscale, driver-oriented vehicles, somewhat of a cross between what GM's Saturn (yuppie upscale) and Pontiac (driver/performance) divisions are evolving into.
Lutz says importing Astra saved $900 million
Ford just needs to poo or get off the pot, or hire Lutz who actually seems capable of getting the obvious done rather than trot out one excuse as to "why not" after another. If Ford would spend half the effort doing things as they do in doing studies why they can't, they'd be swimming in black ink rather than red and we'd have access to all those way-cool Euro and Aussie Fords.
Sell them through the currently useless Mercury division as upscale, driver-oriented vehicles, somewhat of a cross between what GM's Saturn (yuppie upscale) and Pontiac (driver/performance) divisions are evolving into.
I still think the bureaucracy in Ford is tied up in a morass of mediocrity and pleistocene thinking. It will be Ford's end if they don't give management an enema soon...very soon.
12/19/07, 08:30 PM
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By the time 2010 arrives, the Mustang will be well in need of its update.
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