2016 Ford Focus RS

The Renault Mégane RS with 275 hp, the Opel Astra OPC with 280 hp and 300 hp Golf R - it can only laugh at Ford. For if the Cologne to Geneva Salon now bring on the way the 2016 Ford Focus RS, the bodybuilder swings once more to the king of the compact power: "Much more" than 320 hp are a solid performance reserve, with the Ford-piece adversaries at bay holds and also shortens the distance to cars like the Mercedes A 45 AMG and the Audi RS3. A sprint from 0 to 100 in about five seconds should be in there and at 250 km / h, the RS is not satisfied. 270, maybe even 280 km / h, it may already be for the power package from Cologne. However, this pleasure will have its price. Officially, Ford remains silent even from iron. But well below EUR 40 000, it is unlikely to go.

2016 Focus RS: WITH MODERN WEAPONS
The fight against the competition is challenging the Performance Team with modern weapons. For as the iconic five-cylinder turbo predecessor may have been so brutally and he sounded, now the bodybuilder succumb to the downsizing and mount behind the gaping grille only a four-cylinder. The EcoBoost package with its 2.3 liter engine comes from the new Mustang, but get for the RS-use a larger charger and therefore makes it even more pressure. A lot of sports so that here the latest RS of the brand (and the abbreviation has here is a tradition!) Ducks and getting ready to shake up the hot hatch scene.

The Focus RS also brings its power only marginally clean on the road, the developers have finally decided to four-wheel drive. Especially for the RS model they have developed a new drive train with two differential locks. Thus, up to 70 percent of the torque to be not only diverted to the rear, but the driving force can be sorted on the rear axle also 100 percent between the two wheels. Together with electronically controlled dampers, a special Michelin tires on 19-inch wheels and the output of the mighty rear wing that enough for cornering speeds, where the competitors would long since departing promises Ford. And because it usual only in racing cars centrifugal forces of up to 1g act, are the narrow-cut Recaros no decoration, but an objective necessity.

FORD FOCUS RS: PREMIERE IN GENEVA
Designed and built in Cologne in Saarlouis this time it will be the 2016 Ford Focus RS different from before, not only in Europe. Because Ford world sharpen their sport and in the next five years will bring about a dozen performance vehicles up to the rebirth of the legendary GT


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