[nggallery id=1892 template=customlinks] The Ford Focus ST has seen sales grow by more than 270 per cent after Ford revamped the ST and offered a diesel Focus ST for the first time in 2014. Much of the performance Focus talk of late has been, quite rightly, focussed on the new Focus RS, but while that’s […]
As NEW Ford RS200 up for sale
[nggallery id=2208 template=customlinks] A Ford RS200 – chassis 169, though to be the last car delivered – is up for auction at RM Sotheby’s ‘Driven by Disruption’ event in New York in December. The Ford RS200 was Ford’s attempt to take on Group B rallying in the 1990s, which meant producing 200 road-legal cars to […]
New Ford Focus RS: 1500 UK orders already – without a single RS test drive
[nggallery id=2036 template=customlinks] The new Ford Focus RS – Ford’s new 345bhp, 4WD super hot hatch – has garnered 1,500 orders from UK buyers before a single test drive has taken place. The new Ford Focus RS looks to be a properly appealing hot hatch; so appealing that 1,500 UK buyers have put a deposit […]
Time for Episode 2 of Ford’s new Focus RS documentary
Ford has released the second part of its eight part series on the development of the new Focus RS, this time looking at design and the crash test programme. Last week saw episode 1 of the new Ford Focus RS documentary series released as Ford try to keep the high level of interest the new […]
New Ford Focus RS video documentary series gets underway: Episode 1
[nggallery id=2036 template=customlinks] Ford has released the first of an eight-part series on how the new Focus RS came in to being, with episode one focussing on the first RS prototype. Last week we revealed that Ford has put together a documentary series on the new Focus RS – dubbed “Rebirth of an Icon” – […]
Ford to build new range of fuel-efficient PETROL engines in Bridgend
Ford has revealed they will build a new range of fuel-efficient petrol engines at their plant in Bridgend, Wales, from 2018 after a £181 million investment. Ford’s announcement that they are planning a new range of fuel-efficient, technologically-advanced petrol engines – to be built at Ford’s Bridgend Plant from 2018 – seems particularly prescient in light […]
New Ford Focus RS “Rebirth of an Icon” – video series documents the new RS’s development
Ford is releasing an eight-part video documentary series to highlight and explain the development of the new, 4WD, 2016 Focus RS delivered over 8 weeks. The new Ford Focus RS has been a long time coming, but Ford has now pretty much revealed all we need to know about the new RS, except to find […]
New Ford Focus RS does 0-62mph in 4.7 seconds – costs £28,940: OFFICIAL
[nggallery id=2036 template=customlinks] Ford has revealed that the 2016 Focus RS can get to 62mph in 4.7 seconds, hit a top speed of 165mph and will cost from £28,940. The Focus RS order book is now open. The 2016 Ford Focus RS is now on sale in Ford’s UK dealers, as Ford confirm it will […]
New Ford Mustang UK production starts – first customer cars due November
[nggallery id=1719 template=customlinks] The new Ford Mustang is being made available for the first time in RHD, and Ford has now started production ahead of first customer cars in November 2015. American ‘Muscle’ cars are a niche market in the UK, but Ford’s decision to finally make the Mustang in RHD for the UK (and […]
Is it a Ferrari? Is it a Lamborghini? No, It’s a Ford GT (video)
[nggallery id=2025 template=customlinks] The Ford GT Supercar has been out on the streets of London – with its Ford badges covered up to see if passers-by could work out what it is. Ford has played with making supercars since the 1960s – with the original GT40 and the GT of 2015 payingh homage to that […]