Car Throttle

The Focus in the United States was very successful when it debuted, but sales began to slow down as Ford let it get stale. They began to rectify that with the car's current generation, which was launched in 2008 and has been highly-successful. However, there isn't a doubt that Europe has a better Focus than we do.  There is no better evidence of that available than the RS500, limited to 101 cars. As expected, the run of 101 vehicles was quickly sold out, despite a high pricetag of £35,450 (about $54K USD at current exchange rates) each. Ford said there was "unprecedented demand" for RS500 performance model, and as such is introducing this new package to satisfy it, dubbed MP350. You can order your new RS with it,

Ooo, it looks like a rally car for the street. What a lovely idea. If you really don't care much for stuff like peace and quite and being comfortable (and I really don't all that much) having some sort of de-tuned rally car for the road makes a lot of sense. Then again, I've always wanted to hang a license plate off of a Formula Ford, but that's another story. What we have here is a modded Ford Focus RS by McChip. The Ford Focus RS, as it sits on the showroom floor, ain't exactly a slouch. With its wide wheel arches and 300 HP turbocharged five cylinder plant straight from the factory, it's hard to argue with. But argue is just what McChip would like

There's a company called Loder1899 (no, I don't get the name either), and they thought that what Ford's latest Focus RS needed was more power. A substantial amount of power, actually, bumping it up from the already hefty 300 ponies stock all they way to 345 horsepower. OK, sounds like fun to me. Let me get my one meta-criticism out of the way right up front (and it's actually a pretty small one). Apart from the wheels, I've got no problems with what Loder1899 have done here. What I would like to see someone do, however, is take the Focus RS, and make a more day-to-day streetable and livable version of the Focus WRC rally car. What Loder1899 have done though is pretty impressive. For starters,