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Old 19th December 2007, 16:20   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by davee7 View Post
Ford Focus | Auto Express News | News | Auto Express

You spoke too soon!!!

Ford look like they are going ahead with the RS - but from what I've heard it's gonna be FWD (madness with 280bhp!!!!). But considering the performance gains that can be got out of a ST just by remapping (i.e. higher bhp than the proposed figures for the RS), I wonder what's the point of a FWD RS?
If the new RS was a 4WD beast then that could have been a true successor to the old Cossies?
Thats sounding like the Mazda 3 MPS is it not? Thats already a terrible drive there is too much torque for a FWD car, surely Ford won't make the same mistake with the Focus?!?!?!

They said before that it was going to cost about £40k to produce a Focus RS like the last one. I'm guessing that this RS will just be a sooped up version of the ST and not a true RS.
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