Ford has been hyping its allwheel drive hatchback for pretty much a full year, most. But just in case you need onesay, for a skeptical spousewe have you covered. The ford focus rs is a car that needs little introduction. See photos of this 350hp allwheeldrive hot hatch right here. The focus rx does everything in breakneck pace and in a cloud of burned rubber.
The fantastic ford focus rs enters its final year of production packed with performance paraphernalia and ready to desecrate a racetrack near you. The 2016 ford focus rs is exactly what you want from a hot hatch. Find out how quick the 2016 ford focus rs is right here at motor trend. Brilliantly quick, agile and affordable while being rewarding and most of all, fun to drive. As a consequence of its frontwheel drive, compact car roots, the rs has 60 percent of its weight over the front wheels, which affects potential drifts the. As soon as i got behind the wheel of the 2016 ford focus st, i was happy. Otherwise, the car steers exactly where you point it, with a quick turnin and a faultless adherence to a chosen line. Ford of europe introduced the focus in 1998 to the european market as a replacement for the ford escort. Read more on the focus rs from 2017 car of the year testing here. The ford focus rs is a car so special and so emotionally rewarding that it needs no rational justification. Ford has been hyping its allwheeldrive hatchback for pretty much a full year, most recently with a viral video campaign featuring more episodes than many hbo dramas.
Even today, few family cars drive better than the original 1998. The decision to name the new car the ford focus was made in early 1998, as ford s senior management had been planning to keep the escort nameplate for its new generation of small family cars. For one thing, my test car was dressed in optional tangerine scream orange paint. Our test car was fitted with the optional fixedheight bucket seats and. The small ford sedans steering allows it to nip into corners with a quick and linear. Select this powerful, fivedoor, allwheeldrive hatchs drift mode and its ready to whirl in. Ford focus rs v subaru wrx sti v volkswagen golf r. Taking the car for a spin gains a whole new meaning in fords new focus rs. It lost to the vastly more powerful, more expensive, and more carbonfibered mclaren 570s. Retro road test appeared first on motoring research. We finally drive americas firstever rs model, and it doesnt disappoint. And heres an allwheeldrive fourdoor focus with a drift mode.
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