Focus RS 2009

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Had the pleasure of going to the pre motorshow launch last night. Looks good in green although as you can see it does play merry hell with the white balance at times! Some nice older RS's there too.

[F1sh]

You've made those last two look like model cars.

Danny

[Blukoo]

I'm getting worried about the lack of big brakes...
I hope the ones in the pictures aren't what are going to be on the production model.

No brembos or anything like that?

[SamHH]

They're 336mm in diameter at the front. Seems pretty big to me.

[leightonjames]

don't look like model cars to me. Any more pics?

[Bob_Defly]

F1sh said:

You've made those last two look like model cars.

Danny

Are you using that ridiculous lens again, f/1 or something?

[flat-planedCrank]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

Nice shots

Loving the 1ds + 50mm f1.0 effect


Cheers.

[DanH]

Bob_Defly said:

F1sh said:

You've made those last two look like model cars.

Danny

Are you using that ridiculous lens again, f/1 or something?

lol Phil, you keeping doing that

[Gaffer]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

Some nice older RS's there too.

Did you see an Escort Cosworths, RS 500's and RS 200's..?

If you did, have you any pics of them..?

I would love a Cosworth Focus but I like a lot of others are still waiting...did they mention anything about that..?

See you in the Kidd sometime perhaps..?

Claire

[Blukoo]

SamHH said:

They're 336mm in diameter at the front. Seems pretty big to me.

Sorry, it was more the caliper that i thought looks a bit puny.

Maybe its just against the 19" wheels.

[absolutely]

Blukoo said:

I'm getting worried about the lack of big brakes...
I hope the ones in the pictures aren't what are going to be on the production model.

No brembos or anything like that?

Brakes, you don't need brakes. If you "need" big brakes there is something wrong with your driving style.

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Gaffer said:

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

Some nice older RS's there too.

Did you see an Escort Cosworths, RS 500's and RS 200's..?

If you did, have you any pics of them..?

I do. I'll see what there is tonight and post some up.

Gaffer said:

I would love a Cosworth Focus but I like a lot of others are still waiting...did they mention anything about that..?

As Ford got rid of Cosworth a long time ago I can't see that happening. Time will tell if there's a more powerful version I guess....

Gaffer said:

See you in the Kidd sometime perhaps..?

We pop over there every so often. There're Wapping drinks every so often but that usually entails liver failure....

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

leightonjames said:

don't look like model cars to me. Any more pics?

Yup. I'll process them tonight as FTPing them here will take some time. Ah, the 'joys' of 23MB RAW files....

[Gaffer]

Hey Phil

I hope they do do something like the Cosworth version, that would be mental.
As for the Wapping drinks, if our Tony is involved in any way shape or form, then I already have some experience of that..!

Claire

[rmmackfc]

Have they announced any figures on it yet?

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

rmmackfc said:

Have they announced any figures on it yet?

Less than 6 to 60 was the only thing they said.

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Some more as promised.

[JulianHJ]

Any Escort Cosworth pics?

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

JulianHJ said:

Any Escort Cosworth pics?

No, sorry. There was one there but it wasn't very well lit and I ended up chatting most of the time.

[Podie]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

JulianHJ said:

Any Escort Cosworth pics?

No, sorry. There was one there but it wasn't very well lit and I ended up chatting most of the time.

Sierra looks like Heritage fleet - but don't recognise the Red Escort...