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  • BTW it has black seats not red

  • Amazing car my dad has it. Its the 165th 1

  • why isnt this in the usa

    idc what side the driver is on or anything

    i just want this car

  • why is there no RS in america???

  • @wizkid22 Actually... there was 100 in Mexico, if you find one you can import it, i saw a green one in Aguascalientes.

  • Seen one on thursday... Boy... It looks even better in person... Probably one of the best looking hatchbacks

  • VOLVO power!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Such a bad ass little vehicle.

  • this sh!t has FWD

  • which motorisation is this car ?

  • Ford is an American company with some of its development in Europe.

    If this Focus RS 500 would have been engineered and manufactured in the U.S. it wouldn't be anywhere near what this car is.

    'The American way' is to produce at the lowest cost possible and then spend a fortune on commercials in order to sell whatever has come out of the factories. Nothing wrong with that perhaps, but one of the results is that Europeans nowadays buy very few cars produced in the USA.

  • @icsunonove72 The post-bailout cars from the Big Three have all been fantastic. Granted, most of them will never see the European market, but the age of shoddy quality American cars is over. In fact, most car stereotypes are untrue. Nowadays: German cars are the most unreliable, American and Malaysian cars are the best value, Japanese cars are mediocre, Italian cars are reliable and the Mustang is now a sports coupe, not a muscle car.

  • fu!k Ford!

    They won't put cars like this on U.S roads but will elsewhere.

  • even the old Ford Sierra (2.3T) can smoke STI's and EVO's imagine the potential on this car.

  • suppose it looks alright and i've heard that these hot focus don't got to bad .........but I feel ford are living off the name off the legend of the true rs500 name that was the sierra cosworth rs500.Lets be honest ford bandy the rs500 name around like dog poo !!! its only a couple of years ago that we had an rs 500 fiesta !!!! stickers,alloys and god for bid ....bluetooth !!! hardly the same as world touring car champions like the sierra !! fords nowadays are a little, dare I say it......chav!!

  • I despise Ford for not letting me purchase this car here. But then again my car is faster, has more torque and I don't have to worry about spending 80 fuckin' quid on a gallon of gasoline. That being said, I'd still love to buy this car. If it ever comes here I'm one of the first in line. RS, ST, whatever, any variant they bring over here I'm all over it.

  • Sad how Europe gets the better American cars and United States doesn't...This Focus RS would be a true competitor against the Subaru Impreza WRX Hatchback if it was an AWD. Car companies should just sell any production car no matter what region it was made in, they don't how much their car sales would rise up dramatically.

  • @TooleralusAEnima Thats because there built in Europe buy Europeans not fat men from America!!! The only thing American is the name and money!!!

  • @sw1000xg I'm American and I am not fat...then again you are somewhat right.Maybe I should move to Europe

  • @TooleralusAEnima you should be getting the focus rs or atleast thats what was said in a interview i see with one of the heads on ford usa (sorry cant find the link to that vid) though the rs500 was limited and they only made 101 cars, all sold on pre-order. however u can buy a "mountune Focus RS MP350" upgrade pack which has everything from the rs500.. heres a review on the mountune watch?v=xLIcsOOUqkY&feature=fv­st

  • Chavtastic

  • WTF, this is all we get in this video. What a waste of time. How am i sopposed to want to buy this car just by looking at it driving. No interior shots, this could have a twin turbo V12 and I wouldnt know, it doesnt say hp, gearbox, specs, nothing.

  • escort rs cosworth still the best head turning car on the road ;)

  • Matte paint job on a factory stock car...nice.

  • /watch?v=QAzzB64s1V4

    Spotted yesterday at border Germany - Belgium =)

  • nicest ford ever made!!!!

  • Whoa! the 500's back,this is summat special-drove a Sierra one many years ago,and still want one..Euroford at it's best.

  • They'll never sell that car here in the US. It would kill the sales of the mustang.

  • the matte black on this car is made out of normal black paint covered with a vikuiti / 3M foil...looks great!

  • Sick. When will matte black start to be available from the factory on cars in the US? I mean any car!

  • @turbo311 -----Probably never, the technique of painting is much more difficult than with ordinary paint (need a special chamber) and maintained in good condition, matte is not so easy!

  • It's an amazing car !!!

  • ohhhhh myyyy how could anyone design and produce something that nice

  • I love it!

  • DO WANT. I'll gladly wave bye-bye to my Speed3

  • @McLarenMercedes

    Its still an American company therefore making an American car. No? Doesn't matter if it was built in Europe first. Cars nowadays are built around the world. Toyota Corolla are built in the states does it make it an American car? No. Its still Japanese. Volvo was sold to Ford, so it gives Ford rights to use Volvo's engines. Even though Volvo was made as a Swedish company; it was sold to Ford, so therefore making it an American company now. How is Ford ever European?

  • does this hav a v6 or v8?

  • @redfoxtrident It has an inline-5 engine.

  • @KaguyaRyuuji o wow only the ttrs currentl has that engine, i was confused becuz the grumble sounds lyk a v8 but its a ff car so it culdnt hold an engine that big

  • @redfoxtrident Actually it doesn't sound like a v8. It sounds more like a Viper's v10 to me.

  • @KaguyaRyuuji to me the vipers v10 is more angrier than this lol

  • @redfoxtrident Take into account that the cylinder count is about half the Viper's.

  • How much will they be worth in 20 years?? how many will remain?? OMG WAT A MOTOR!!

  • An American car that isn't being sold in America. What a joke.

  • Last time I checked the Focus was never designed by americans.

    FACT is, the Focus was designed and built by Ford Europe first. That would mean Cologne, Germany.

    Also that engine is a Volvo 5 cylinder.

    Neither the engine nor the car was designed in America. Hence it's not an American car. When did they ever design a World Rally Car?

  • @bfcricky sry to tell you but you paid a lot for nothing they might be all you say but they look like crap next time try to look beyond the horrible black shiny plastic

  • Damn, what a beautiful vehicle. I wish Ford would bring at least some of these to the US. It's no mystery why it sold out in within 12 hours in the UK.

  • Cool

  • does i got a v6 yet

  • reminds me of a subaru for some reason

  • Rather have a TT RS

  • wow .. the whole car is a fail.. im sure its a beast but fuck its ugly and the cheap interiors ..damnn

  • @Iceews CHEAP INTERIORS! HAHAHA! Mine has a £1300 Sat Nav and Voice control system and Suade leather recaro seats and you call that cheap?

  • @bfcricky i call that gay. who needs sat navs and voice control? these cars aren't made for luxury.

  • @TrioTanks I was just stating that to someone who said the interior was cheap

  • I'm glad ford is finally bringing it's a game to the states.... to bad we won't get the RS tho

  • doesnt have to the RS500, just RS, even FWD..haha. plz

    bring civic type R as well. :D

  • So Ford has taken an ugly rice burner and made a limited edition version? Okay then...

  • why cant this car be available in the us? :(

  • wikid, AWD, and sold in the US, please!

  • BRING THIS TO THE US MOFOS!

  • Essex

  • The only "hot hatch" that I would ever consider buying.

  • fuck ford

  • LOL. RS500. FORD fucking throw away all those ST parts lying about and stop bringing new EDITIONS out of the same car. we all know theres gonna be a 4WD version with a new chassis,gearbox[ DSG TYPE ]. so please stop rapeing FORD lovers of there hard earned CASH. well atleast until the 4WD daddy arrives. then i,ll consider one. while these stay FWD i,ll always prefer RENAULTSPORTS because there the daddy,s at FWD.

  • so why isnt this being sold in the country where ford is based?

  • @Mp5Speed this focus is made in UK/Germany thats why its good.

  • @ariell92 ok that answers why its good, but that doesnt answer why it isnt sold in america

  • @Mp5Speed because the american people arent really interested in this kind of car, only european people like hatchbacks like that, of course theres always some in usa that will like it, and theres gona be some imporst to there but if they sell it for america the sells would be total fail

    ALSO its a limited edition only 500 will be made

  • @ariell92 The honda civic hatch has sold well in america since the 80s. I know i own one and i see them everywhere here in cali. The regular RS would sell extreamly well here. I wish Ford would grow a pair and bring it over. As to the limited edition RS500 i bet jay leno will have one.

  • @ariell92 european ans south american people like hatchs like this

  • @Reptar2 yea i know but its only gonna be sold in europe

  • @Mp5Speed Because unlike the people in Europe, not enough Americans give a fuck about hatchbacks. The states don't even have the 300HP FWD car.

    It's just marketing. Every car manufacturer knows that Americans love two types of cars the most: the SUV (and any of its variants) and the sedan (saloon).

    When it comes to car size, Americans prefer medium or large.

    When it comes to engines, nothing smaller than a V6.

    AWD is cool, but RWD is what the people want here.

    Focus meets none of that.

  • @LostChildOfTime Why does the MazdaSpeed 3, VW GTi, and Subaru WRX and STi sell so well in the U.S. if we don't like hot hatchbacks? Oh yeah, then there's the Mini Cooper and Fiat bringing over the 500.

  • @JaySee5 I think it has a lot to do with the mustang. until recently the RS was more powerful then the 4.6L V8 Mustang, but more importantly I was based on the EURO Focus witch was not DOT approved so thats the real reason probably.

  • @JaySee5 Ford's image in America is to be as American as possible. If it goes fast, it's a Mustang. Not a Focus.

  • @LostChildOfTime as im reading your comment i laughing to myself because your absolutely right. I guess im one of those rare ones that would love this car.

  • Ford need to bring back Cosworth. Imagine Ford focus RS Cosworth or even bring back the Escort with new models.

  • @Greig300. sorry dude but the COSWORTH guy,s have jumped ship. there,s gonna be a special edition IMPREZA COSWORTH this year.

  • @Greig300 yeah, like the Escort Cosworth WRC kind .. with AWD and all that thing

  • @Greig300 Why? It will still be a shitty Ford ;)

  • fuck you ford..... dont you realize that you would sell thousands upon thousands of these if you brought them to the U.S. and Canada? even just the normal RS hell even just the normal focus... even that is a better car than half the ones you give us

  • looks a lot better than the american ford.

  • bullshit my grandma drives a focus !!! 

    not a great deal

  • this rs is a limited edition with 350 ps!!!

  • what's the 500 for? surely not 500 horses... right?

  • @librano check the beginning of the video - says "no. 001/500". I think that's a big enough hint :)

  • @Fushpud observation fail... thanks.

  • what a mother f*!

  • Ford WE WANT THIS CAR IN THE US!!!!!

  • won't happen

    you see it will probably be more expensive than a base Mustang, and the buyers are mostly unaware of the whole World Rally Car hot hatces and their insane handling. besides once they hear it's not a V8 car they simply won't be interested at all

  • @McLarenMercedes man thats soo true here in america you can make a bad ugly shit car but if it has a V8 in it and has low 1/4 times boom it sells like hot cakes dont matter if the car cant turn for shit or stops for that matter pisses me off man we will never get the good cars because of that

  • Sadly us Yanks will never get a chance to buy this car. Instead we are stuck with crappy Mustangs with live rear axle. Come on Ford, give us the good stuff they have in Europe.

  • why would they?

    they make a load of money selling their F250 trucks and whatever other Fords sell by their millions

    I thought the Mustang had a stiff rear axle?

  • is that straight-from-factory matte black ? damn that's one mean focus .

  • oh my! good job ford line ups of cars are very nice, especially this 1

  • nice

  • This Car MUST to have the heritage of the WRC Focus .. come on Ford put it an AWD system please

  • @Reptar2 Yeah. That would be the best option. Then, sales would boost up like crazy.

  • You don't need AWD in a FWD car; I can guarantee there would not be a difference in performance if ford did install an AWD system; that's why they haven't.

  • @buttnut1080 Maybe you are right .. but maybe .. because we dont know how much the performance could be increase if we put and awd. Sadly the only way to demostrate this point is facing the two systems each other.

    And the other point, there are a lot of examples of FWD cars that now have AWD systems, and the result is a huge increase of performance.

  • The AWD would only add more understeer to an already understeer prone car.

  • @buttnut1080 you are confusing oversteer with understeer

  • No I'm not. Understeer is when extra steering from the driver is needed to finish a turn which is exactly what happens to FWD cars and especially AWD cars.

  • @buttnut1080 mmm i disagree with you .. in fact the awd tend to have oversteer not understeer .. an AWD system would help to counteract the understeer, you can drift an awd, in a fwd you cant.

  • You're wrong. Common sense tells you that when the power is applied to the front wheels that you can't steer as easily as you would in a RWD car; causing understeer.

  • @buttnut1080 That's completely right .. i think we are missing the point ..

  • @Reptar2 agree with you

  • @Reptar2 Pig-understeering AWD systems are getting outdate. It should have a torque vectoring one. But if they developped it just for this car, it would cost 100,000 bucks.

  • @sspope mmm that´s a point a mean the bucks part ... but awd systems getting outdate ? come on.

  • @Reptar2 why? the extra weight of the AWD sytem coupled with the greater percentage of power lost through the drivetrain will probably end up with it being slower than a regular RS

  • @veyronman Dude,, you have the best examples .. STI & EVO. .. put them against the fwd RS .. guess who is going to win. That is a huge fact.

  • @Reptar2 FWD is so fail.

  • @Reptar2 itll weigh to much,weight is bad

  • @HENRYHOBBS1 .. yep weight is bad .. but they have engineers for a reason ..there are a lot of cars with awd and awesome performance .. like the EVO ans STI

  • @Reptar2 STI AWD system is terrible.Its fast but not in the corners.

  • Holy crap. The engine sounds like a Viper's engine.

  • AHHHHH WHY FWD STILLL!!!! WTF!! DX

    .......besides that LITTLE issue....this car is BAD ASS!!

  • Anyone know if this Focus is based on a Ralley Style of Race Style being the track and not cross country.Also isshe still sporting the volvo engine as before.

  • Over 300 horsepower actualy. A reported 345. I love awd too. that's why i've got a Pulsar with 350 horsepower. This looks rather more refined though obviously. Who's idea was the scally wideboy headbanger nutter music on this? Ford's? Target buyer?

  • over 200 horsepower + fwd = handling issues. COME ON FORD i would be salivating over this car if it had awd.

  • @nollieflip18 its the orientation of the motor and the front wheels. AWD might cure some of it, but it still wouldn't change the fact that one half-shaft in the front would be shorter than the other.

  • @nollieflip18

    If it's like the normal rs it can actually handle the 220+ bhp! It's a new system they invented. atm the normal RS Focus is actually the leading FWD car out there.

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