The limited edition, matt black Ford Focus RS 500. Sold Out.
It’s being reported that the Ford Focus RS500 has sold out just days after the swansong for the Focus RS was revealed.
That didn’t take long.
We’re hearing this morning on the grapevine that the just-revealed Focus RS500 has already sold out. Which – even with only 500 being produced – is no mean feat for a car from a major car maker that doesn’t even have a price tag yet.
The 345bhp RS500 was first revealed with a tease on 26th March. That was the first point anyone outside Ford knew that the swansong Focus RS would be the RS500. Mind you, we knew something was coming and we even got the basics on the money. We didn’t get the name right – we thought it would be the Focus RS Clubsport when we revealed it was coming back in February – but we did get the likely power boost right.
So are people barking mad to be jumping in a car they don’t even know the price of? Hardly. The standard Focus RS still fetches list price or there abouts when offered for sale. And that’s for a car that will have sold over 10,000 when sales finally finish in September. So buyers lucky enough to get their hands on the RS500 can rest assured that their new toy is going to be a freebie play – they’ll get back what they paid with no problem, at least for a year or two.
And that’s it for the current generation Focus RS. We now move on to the 2011 Focus RS which we expect to come as a hair-raising hybrid – using the 2.0 litre EcoBoost mated to an electric motor running the rear wheels – which will give the 2011 Focus RS four wheel drive. The hybrid bit is expected to come from a joint development between Ford and Peugeot and should give the 2011 RS a 5 second 0-60mph time.
But for now, the Focus RS500 is the RS Daddy.
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