While the Top Gear lads have been busy thinking up new Stig introductions, Fifth Gear has managed to get a bum on a seat in the 2009 Focus RS - Jason Plato’s in fact.

Fifth Gear claims that this is the first TV drive of the Focus RS.

Has Ford managed to pump 224kW (300hp) and 440Nm through [...]

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The last time we brought you some solid information on the 2010 Ford Focus RS, we thought we had the full story. Turns out we’d only just skimmed the surface: Ford has just released a few extra nuggets of info on its latest and greatest hot hatch.

Example: we already know that the Ford Focus RS [...]

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Hot hatch fans rejoice! The first production 2009 Ford Focus RS has rolled off the line at Ford’s Saarlouis plant in Germany.

The eagerly awaited 224kW/440Nm Focus RS is one car that we expect will shrug off the Global Financial Crisis and have no trouble finding homes across the globe.
“We are excited that a new RS-badged [...]

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We’ve known most of the important stuff about Ford’s upcoming Focus RS for some time but one thing remained a mystery, and that was the price. Originally expected to be set at a rather hefty €39,000 ($79,000 AUD), we can now confirm that the latest hot-hatch from Ford will hit the market at a much more [...]

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It’s been a long time coming, this on-again off-again RS Focus. Thankfully, it’s well and truly on, with the production car having been revealed at the British International Motor Show in London in July. It’s proven so popular that Ford is re-revealing the Focus RS in Paris as well.

But, it would seem they needn’t have [...]

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Déjà vu? You better believe it! Having already revealed its upcoming and highly anticipated ’09 Focus RS at this year’s London Motor Show in July, the folks from Ford are so excited that they are planning to whip the covers off the ‘green-meanie’ once again – in Paris.

The city of romance and overpriced espressos will be [...]

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We spotted these images around the traps last week and the general consensus is that they are the product of a photoshop geek – but damn they look great. Dan received some hi-res copies in his inbox today and we thought it best to share.

Comparing them to the official pics of an early prototype released [...]

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You may remember the mysterious teaser image (above) released last month when Ford decided to give us a taste of their upcoming Focus RS. The eagerly awaited hot hatch has been the source of much speculation with many saying that it will finally be an alternative to Subaru’s WRX and Mitsubishi’s EVO.

It was only a [...]

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In what amounts to great news for performance hatch enthusiasts, Ford have confirmed that their Focus RS hatch will go into production and to celebrate, they’ve released the now standard teaser image, but this time there is nothing bad to hide – it looks hot.

The Focus RS hatch will be the most recent iteration of [...]

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The on again off again Ford Focus RS is well…on again. The folks at Car Magazine have managed to snap a Focus RS test mule as it finished a few hot laps of the Nurburgring earlier this week. If it really is on again then Car Magazine are of the opinion that Ford will unveil [...]

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