subject: Ford Focus Rs (2009) [print this page] A few years ago was 200 hp is about the maximum that a front wheel driver could lose to the asphalt. With the new Ford Focus RS Ford proves that even more than 300 horsepower required to pose no problems.
The appearance of the new RS is little discreet. He shouts his performance really from the rooftops. The complete package body is one thing, but the huge rear spoiler is totally unbelievable. Below with black mesh ensures a splitter combined with the standard xenon lamps for an aggressive face in someone else's mirror.
At the rear two fists in the huge thick exhaust diffuser for a solid cacophony of noise. Inside, the Ford Focus is not as spectacular as the outside, but you can still see that this is something. It starts with the seats: huge vats race that you can color it with the outside. The chairs are perfect, only the sitting posture itself is better: you're actually too high for a sports car and the Recaro's are screwed.
Adjustment can only forward and backward. Like the Ford Focus ST get three extra little counter in the middle of the dashboard that the oil pressure, oil temperature and turbo boost pressure display. Around the center tunnel, the car is equipped with a carbon-look and you are provided with a nice thick steering wheel with RS logo.
Five-cylinder Roffel
We already know the five-cylinder engine from the Focus ST, but Ford has included the turbo replaced and the cylinder head strengthened. The result is a great machine. After the start sounds a nice roll, which is above the 4,000 rpm turns into a hellish roar that is very addictive. Only then all you're often on illegal speeds! Gas release results then a lot of noise from the exhaust. The Ford is damn fast in a straight line and at the intermediate sprint begins the 911-bullying really. Once underway it is noticeable that the Ford Focus sends very direct. Submitting is so tight that in the beginning you always have to correct you send still far too many.
The RS, like its predecessor, a limited slip differential, but also a special suspension system that makes steering and drive forces can work very independently. The practice is unimaginable. Even at full throttle, the RS very precisely.
The chassis is well disgusting. The speed at which you can turn into, well above the level of a hot hatch. Then you can very quickly begin accelerating out of the bend. If you do too much on the outer slide, then a fraction of the gas is sufficient to lift the nose like a piranha to bite at the apex. Do you know what the heavier gas, this results immediately upset, which you car in very tight turns can throw checked.
What makes all this even more impressive is the ease with which everything goes. The potential of the car is very accessible, especially because the car you from the beginning the feeling that you're the boss. And not because of technical interventions, but by a chassis that makes the car respond as it should. The RS is not crafty or mean, but sharp, honest and fantastic.
Precisely because of the loose back and the great engine despite its accessibility remains a beast of a car, Ford Focus has found the exact mix between potential and not accessible to underestimate the fun factor.
