RE: Production Focus RS Breaks Cover
Discussion
drb5 said:
Combover said:
DJC said:
Chav central 
...to you.There's nothing wrong with being bold once in a while and I love the rally-stage-refugee look. It worked for the Delta Integrale and looking at the pics, it works for this too.
There's nothing to say that this is going to be a limited run of RS's, so i reckon the value of these will drop considerably, especially if they only do the ghastly green colour.
RS should be special and this looks like the ST with even more Halfrauds jewellery on it.
Ford didn't do it any favours making it FWD with 300hp and bringing it out in green has made it worse.....and for just under 25k???!
I love RWD, but in a lot of cases, in todays world, there are lots of situations where FWD is faster.
Dave_ST220 said:
drb5 said:
Combover said:
DJC said:
Chav central
...to you.There's nothing wrong with being bold once in a while and I love the rally-stage-refugee look. It worked for the Delta Integrale and looking at the pics, it works for this too.
There's nothing to say that this is going to be a limited run of RS's, so i reckon the value of these will drop considerably, especially if they only do the ghastly green colour.
RS should be special and this looks like the ST with even more Halfrauds jewellery on it.
Ford didn't do it any favours making it FWD with 300hp and bringing it out in green has made it worse.....and for just under 25k???!
The 300bhp front-wheel drive Focus is finished in a special bright green paint with inlaid metallic flake, which Ford says is a modern interpretation of the 1970s Le Mans Green of the Escort RS1600 era.
That sounds to me like the only colour and remember the last RS was only brought out in blue....something which i'm sure most would agree, was a smarter idea.
Combover said:
drb5 said:
Combover said:
DJC said:
Chav central
...to you.There's nothing wrong with being bold once in a while and I love the rally-stage-refugee look. It worked for the Delta Integrale and looking at the pics, it works for this too.
There's nothing to say that this is going to be a limited run of RS's, so i reckon the value of these will drop considerably, especially if they only do the ghastly green colour.
RS should be special and this looks like the ST with even more Halfrauds jewellery on it.
Ford didn't do it any favours making it FWD with 300hp and bringing it out in green has made it worse.....and for just under 25k???!
I love RWD, but in a lot of cases, in todays world, there are lots of situations where FWD is faster.
I could well be tempted by this if the FWD set-up is as good as it's being touted. This new fangled suspension and diff sound very interesting.....
Not in green though! I do look the idea of having a colour unique to the RS, but something a little less garish... IMHO white with blue side stripes would look very classy!
Not in green though! I do look the idea of having a colour unique to the RS, but something a little less garish... IMHO white with blue side stripes would look very classy!
photo_ed said:
DJC said:
Chav central
That was my first thought too....Sorry to all those enthusing about it but to my eyes it's a bit too much 'Halfrauds Special'.
I'm sure it'll sell like hot cakes
davee7 said:
I could well be tempted by this if the FWD set-up is as good as it's being touted. This new fangled suspension and diff sound very interesting.....
Not in green though! I do look the idea of having a colour unique to the RS, but something a little less garish... IMHO white with blue side stripes would look very classy!
Agreed, just said to a mate... in White with the Fiesta ST style blue stripe please Not in green though! I do look the idea of having a colour unique to the RS, but something a little less garish... IMHO white with blue side stripes would look very classy!
Apache said:
photo_ed said:
DJC said:
Chav central
That was my first thought too....Sorry to all those enthusing about it but to my eyes it's a bit too much 'Halfrauds Special'.
I'm sure it'll sell like hot cakes
It'll end up like a glorified ST and the RS badge won't mean as much as it used to.
drb5 said:
Apache said:
photo_ed said:
DJC said:
Chav central
That was my first thought too....Sorry to all those enthusing about it but to my eyes it's a bit too much 'Halfrauds Special'.
I'm sure it'll sell like hot cakes
It'll end up like a glorified ST and the RS badge won't mean as much as it used to.
RS is about ability and not quantity.
You shouldn't really write it off for being a sales success (assumed obviously!) if it can tear a road apart on a decent day.
Too true, but there isn't many manufacturers out there that produce 2 hot versions of one of their cars. If they do that too often, surely one will fall by the way-side?
Maybe another problem is as you mention..."on a decent day". Up here in Scotland, a decent day is few and far between.
Even looking at the Astra VXR's specs there, shows at 6.2 seconds to 60 and that's going to be 7-8k cheaper. Stick a LSD in it and i'm sure te 0-60 time will come down to a par with the new RS........possibly.
Maybe another problem is as you mention..."on a decent day". Up here in Scotland, a decent day is few and far between.
Even looking at the Astra VXR's specs there, shows at 6.2 seconds to 60 and that's going to be 7-8k cheaper. Stick a LSD in it and i'm sure te 0-60 time will come down to a par with the new RS........possibly.
Edited by drb5 on Friday 4th July 13:05
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