Focus ST Hype Thread

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seasonalskier

Discussion Starter · Aug 15, 2011

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Ford, however, has stirred our interest by promising that it will reveal information on “the next Focus performance car” at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September

http://rumors.automobilemag.com/report-higher-performance-ford-focus-rs-arriving-for-2013-66719.html

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seawolf

· #17 · Sep 18, 2011

You ALMOST got your priorites right...

-House-
-Bada$$ Focus ST-
-Ring-

If you're happy, she's happy

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seawolf

· #19 · Sep 19, 2011

Fair enough.

Good luck with that, hope it works out for you

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seawolf

· #22 · Sep 23, 2011

All these clips are like watching Aerobic Strip Tease on video. You're waiting for the unveiling, but it can't come soon enough.

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seawolf

· #24 · Sep 23, 2011

Stick with Focaljet...those guys are always in the know.

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Those communities are so awesome...I was saddened to a point to leave the Focus realm because I met a lot of great people on FocalJet and made a few good friends in the process. But the Fusion grew on me and felt more 'grown-up' and that it was the car I should be driving once I found my career job.

However,

That hot-hatch demon inside me misses my old custom-turbo'd ZX3 terribly. When the ST makes it to shore, I will be heading down to my local Spring Hill Ford dealer to ask for a test drive...

The rest will probably be history if that car is anywhere near what the Euro ST is. Center-exit exhaust is soooo sexy :drool:

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seawolf

· #28 · Sep 23, 2011

On the 1998 F-150, duh!

Sports-cars are not meant for towing.

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seawolf

· #30 · Sep 26, 2011

You're nuts! :lol:

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seawolf

· #33 · Sep 30, 2011

It's the same guy in the same development car...just different edits of his commentary. Why dont they just release the whole thing?!?

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seawolf

· #38 · Nov 3, 2011

I thought we already knew those numbers ... :thinking:

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seawolf

· #40 · Nov 3, 2011

Fair enough. I bet they either raised the RPMs by 500 to reach 250, or slightly revised the air intake.

In any case...it's a great starting point for a highly-modded, impossible-to-drive FWD mean machine :smokinamd:

Though a small part of me is disappointed it has less power than the Mazdaspeed3, I have a feeling it will beat it to (legal freeway speeds) stock-for-stock due to the throttle dithering that car does to manage torque. Ford bothers to put in a good suspension/steering solution.

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seawolf

· #75 · Jun 20, 2012

I'm with Ace that the car is too fat, but it wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me. You can "dial out" some of the fat with the right gearing (see BMW) and the extra weight keeps the car more stable at high-speeds. If it drives as good as "they" say, I would definitely consider it.

If the RS comes, there would be no question.

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