Are you staying in America long enough?
Aussie's get them Ford Falcons we get none of the overseas goodness
Or maybe ditch the whole super-innovative RevoKnuckle suspension and just give it normal suspension to drop the price? :lol:
Ford said:...because the owners will be parking by powersliding in reverse anyway.
I doubt the current RS will be sold over here. The next generation might as it will be produced in North America.
Hyundai said they were giving out ~100 Equus's to American dealers to see if there was enough interest to sell some here. It'd be cool if Ford could figure out how to do that with the Focus RS. If anything, it would show that there's some interest in these kind of performance models.
Hyundai said they were giving out ~100 Equus's to American dealers to see if there was enough interest to sell some here. It'd be cool if Ford could figure out how to do that with the Focus RS. If anything, it would show that there's some interest in these kind of performance models.
As interesting as the RS is I think Ford will have a hard time competing with the Genesis coupe in this segment. Even if priced competitively most of the tuner/enthusiast crowd that would be interested in such a car would prefer RWD over FWD.
REPORT: Ford passes on bringing current Focus RS to America
In an interview with Jost Capito, head of Ford's global performance, it came out that ? yet again ? the picture of the Focus RS above is the closest Americans will get to the Blue Oval's hottest hatch. As quoted in UK's Autocar magazine, Capito's exact words are: "Sadly, no. We'd like to, but the base car isn't homologated for North America, and that's too costly a job to carry out just for a niche vehicle like the RS."
Note that this doesn't contradict what was said last time ? that the next-generation RS might come to the U.S. since the coming Focus is being developed as a global platform with North American federalization in mind. So let's put this one to bed so we can all get on with our lives and cease pining for the current Focus RS, shall we? We need to turn our attention now to pining for the next Focus RS...
UPDATE: Ford just wrote us to clarify that while the all-new Focus RS just introduced in Europe won't be for sale in the U.S., "Ford intends to bring some new RS' to the US (as we've already seen in the spy photos of the white car) to use as marketing assets for feedback from enthusiasts" and media.