Car Performance Specs

The New Ford Focus ST next generation

The Ford Focus ST with its 250 hp naturally have no wretch, but a hardcore hot hatch is not.

Since Ford has planned for the RS version, and there is already some information about known.

At least, Len Urwin, head of Fords RS-department does in an interview with car news PistonHeads a book open on the upcoming flagship model of the Ford Focus.

According Urwin get the next hot lightning around 350 horsepower under the hood, 50 horses more than the previous generation RS managed to produce. And that was a car that regularly the boundaries of the genre hothatch visited.

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Reportedly gives the RS a new 2.3-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder under the hood, which at the moment is being developed for the next generation Mustang. A four-cylinder in a Mustang will get used to, but in Focus we welcome him with open arms.

The violence that 350 hp at the wheels for release in harness to keep Ford assembles probably an electronic differential lock.

Len Urwin not preclude the whirlwind RS will be equipped with four-wheel drive, but there will be a completely new system to be developed. Moreover, the focus wheel drive unnecessarily heavy and expensive, something not in his favor will work.

We expect the arrival of the RS on a one to two years. Unlike its predecessor, the RS as a five on the market, there is indeed no rolls diedeurs Focus more of the tire.