The RS is now a touch too quiet and could use more intake sound in day-to-day driving but at least it's now pure, and far less boomy inside the cabin. 2016 Ford Focus RS: 14 Things You Need to Know. A quick Internet search revealed you can simply unplug one connector in the cargo area to fix that nonsense. As is becoming all too common with modern automobiles, the Focus RS plays fake engine sounds through the audio system. One simple change I made was unplugging the artificial noise generator. It also sounds quite good as long as you select the louder exhaust via the sportier drive modes.
The powerplant offers bags of power with very impressive throttle response, especially for a boosted engine. Well, outside of the 19-mpg appetite for premium unleaded and the small fuel tank. The turbocharged engine is another highlight. I'm not usually a big fan of black wheels but the optional matte, 19-inch forged alloys combined with the other contrasting exterior details against the Frozen White bodywork work together brilliantly. But also the side-to-side allocation, allowing some serious torque vectoring to help reduce understeer and – according to the official press release – “the ability to achieve controlled oversteer drifts at the track.” Sounds good to us.Then, just when you've had enough of the Focus RS and you consider cashing in your chips and heading home, you catch a glance at the five-door hatch and remember that it looks fantastic. These enable management of both front-to-rear torque split – with up to 70 percent of effort being diverted to the rear axle. The four-wheel drive system sounds properly impressive, with twin electronically-controlled clutch packs at the back, one working with each wheel. There’s no pricing details yet, either – although the move to four-wheel drive and the sheer quantity of tech on the car suggests it’s likely to cost a fair chunk more than the last RS, which was $60,000 here. We reckon on a 0-100km/h time somewhere in the mid-to-low fours when it goes on sale next year. We’re also promised that the engine has been developed to rev hard, something the four-pot Mustang isn’t noticeably keen to do. We’ve not got any performance numbers yet, although the EcoBoost engine gets a bigger turbocharger than in the new Mustang we’re betting it will make around the 255kW mark, compared to the previous model's 224kW. It will be sold globally as part of Ford’s move to internationalise its performance offerings, and it’s been engineered by a Ford Performance team working in both the U.S. This is, if you’re keeping count, the third Focus RS, although only the second to come to Australia, and the first to go to the U.S. It's a shot across the bow of the forthcoming Honda Civic Type R and current Nurburgring lap record holder, the Renaultsport Megane 275 Trophy R. 2016 Ford Focus RS hits the Nurburgring One car Ford has failed to produce in the latest Focus is the Focus RS, but that is set to change with plans for a new range-topping Focus RS hitting Ford’s.
THE new Ford Focus RS has been unveiled at an event in Germany – with the headlines being ‘at least’ 235kW from the same 2.3-litre EcoBoost four-cylinder used in Mustang and a switch to four-wheel drive with some very trick torque vectoring.
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