…While the Focus left the lineup in 2018, Ford has continued to hang onto its RS fleet from the Performance Racing School. Now, however, the brand has decided that it’s time to clear out inventory and offer these hot hatches to the public…
With 350 ponies and 350 lb-ft of torque coming from its 2.3-liter turbocharged EcoBoost inline-four, it feeds power to all four wheels via a six-speed manual transmission and a Dynamic Torque Vectoring system.
What’s more, Ford equipped the Focus RS with Driver-Selectable Sport Suspension, a multi-point roll bar, Recaro seats and forged alloy wheels wrapped in grippy Michelin Pilot Sport rubber. Suffice to say, these cars were loaded to the nines.
As tempting as that sounds, remember that those are racing school cars. There is no way they weren’t hammered round the tracks and are likely a little more worn out than usual.
Probably safe to assume they’re not going to have the original head gasket failure though.
I still get giddy when one of those drives by. I wanted one so bad back then.
Probably best I didn’t though. Post-pandemic employment hasn’t been kind to me.
