The Focus RS RX didn't become a success overnight. Watch our year in review and discover the research, innovation, and passion that went into developing our race-winning RX vehicle. What was your favorite moment from the Focus RS RX's inaugural year?
Ill rally one Ford an Rs A focus wrc in some form, even if its a different car wins my local rally every year beating out hundreds of entrants, locally and internationally, Ford is king where i am from.
I love Ford. All Ford cars are absolutely awesome especially the RS. The RS is my dream car. I love Ford and always will. I own a ford and I will buy another 20 more if I had the money. Long live Ford.
I still hope to get a RS . I worked in Chrysler engineering and it was good to see Fords dyno, mine was state of the art and the technology has moved on. A word to others in the business, "METS".
Not from ford, you could build one yourself to the same specs for around 100-200k though. And at that point it is a true race car, as in rebuilding the motor every thousand miles or so.
I’ve been trying to figure the engine set up on this car!! Is it using the 2.0 ST or TS block?? Is it using the 2.3 single port head? Or is it using the 2.0 4 port head?? Would love to know the engine build on this car.
Ford needs to fix their eco boost problem. That carbon buildup is not acceptable.since it doesn’t have to be that way. All that’s needed is to install a port injection also, like Toyota did with their 2:5 letter engine. Other than that the engines are pretty good. Kind of cheap but pretty good.
So, for the good understander, what basically happened is probably this: Ford quit WRC but still had the infrastructure. After partial economic recovery, someone proposed Rallyecross instead of WRC and said, "don't worry about the cost, we can use the WRC Fiesta and save 80% of the cost", also because we do not have our own works team but a privateer to run the team for us. The board agreed to the project and in view of the easy task, with a very tight timeframe. Then it turned out that Rallyecross is far more demanding on the engine and suspension and that a Fiesta is not a Focus. So everybody had to work 24h a day to meet the time schedule and the budget was probably overrun several times. End result, the car was not tested enough pre season. You gotta love corporate decision making! But seriously, Rallyecross is in my view second rate sport compared to WRC. This does the brand no good (sorry rallyecross lovers, I do not have anything against your sport).
Bunch of boring stuff about the team and their efforts and a bunch of glimpses here and there of work being done but ALL I wanted to see is the actual layout and general descriptions of what car has ....HUGE thumbs down boring as hell and the video utterly fails to simply show like "here is the motor in the car and what it is and here is the transmission and drive train components here is the suspension....decriptions detailing how the car is out together ...all the personality stuff and team stuff is barely interesting ....wasted my time I wanted to see how it is either similar or radically different from the production cars....NOT satisfying to watch
Oh and fix the crappy brakes on the RS. The Brembos catch fire in moderate canyon driving as seen on MotorTrend magazineTV. A Golf R smoked the RS they had in simple Canyon carving. And the Golfs brakes were still good wereas the RS frt brakes actually caught fire and had terrible fade. There are less expensive, much better alternatives to Brembo garbage.
They won't use Brembo road brakes on this car, they will have race specification brakes with a ridiculously good cooling system and they will be worth a fortune!!
How about no more false advertising Ford?... How about rating your performance products on 91 octane like everyone else? Your ecoboost cars need to make max power without an "overboost" function. And why, WHY are you making your cars into fat, heavy Dodges? Weight hurts mpg's, hurts acceleration, braking, cornering, etc. today's mustang V8 is no quicker than the 2011 mph model, handles no better, sure it rides better, more like a Buick, which is aweful, but hey. Or the dull, dim tri-bar LED DRL's on mustang? Barely visible in daylight. Why call them DRL's if you can't see them. Those DRL's dim down 35% from engine off to engine on, too.
The RS is way overrated, under powered, over weight, etc. it's not worthy of a 36k price tag. 32k, sure.... And Ford dealers are gouging on prices with 10-20k over msrp. The other problem is that there are now over 770 RS Focus on dlr lots. Mostly loaded RS2 units. People don't want a loaded car made for the track. Lots of people are also wrecking their RS's. Drift mode needs to be dropped. The rear diff needs a cooler, and the car needs a 150+ lb weight drop, then the 36k price MIGHT be plausible. When this near 3475 lb car gets reeled in by 292 hp Golf R's on the roll, it's a sign the RS is not making advertised power and is way to heavy. A carbon or aluminum hood, fenders and rear hatch would help, along by with a 3 door RS like the original. If, IF, by chance there's a 450 hp RS in the pipes, for 40k, then it would make sense. But the Golf R and soon Civic Type R both destroy RS on a track and in terms of acceleration, other than a brief jump to 30 mph, the RS gets pulled and pummeled by its competitors. Same for mustang. The fat heavy mustang needs TQ. It needs brighter DRL LED's, so does the RS, it needs a change to its face. That hood on the mustang needs to not stick out over the headlights, and catch air like a sail, like the 2015-17' models do, the hood and headlights need to be flush. Are the mustang engineers out of middle school in the aerodynamics department? Bring the SVO name back, lighten the car 150-200 lbs so it's close to a V6 Camaro in weight instead of a 2014 mustang GT. Crank the boost to 350 and a nice ce bi-wing spoiler out back, just like the original, oh, and a NACA Duct Type hood scoop. You'll sell Ecoboost mustangs so fast you'll struggle to keep up with demand. I know these things because I hear it every day from mustang owners and potential customers. Ditch the X-pipe in the exhaust, and stick some beefy sound in there with an H-pipe. And bring back a true Highland Green Bullitt or Mach1... Last.y, a new Cobra to replace the GT500, with no more than 3700 lbs, sticky tires, and 750 hp, and it should be a beast. Also offer options to strip it down or a track version to compete with the Dodge Demon. Hp is nothing if you don't have grip. Your not winning, if your spinning. Thx.
I raced ford when everyone else ran chevy I even ran a smaller motor and got a 200 pound weight reduction for the smaller engine. chevys all ran a 350 ci small block bored to 358 cubic inches. I ran the humble 302 cleaned up the bore and it came in at 305 cubic inches. Had an exceptional good handling T bird and one the champion ship three years in a row set fastest lap times broke numerous records and ran the same engine three years before it finally cracked and gave up the ghost. It turned 8800 rpm for many 100 lap features got protest so many times lost count ans always legal always they had to pay to put my engine back together. Chevy junk when I ran them I'd go through sometimes three engines in one season. After I won so many times after the third year a third of the field changed over to Ford engines and cars and they said if they were in the know they would have been running Ford all along. I now own a 2017 Focus RS, with twin turbochargers and numerous other drivetrain mods. Runs the quarter mile in 8.99 seconds at 147 mph. At little river dragstrip has over 1300 hp at the flywheel @ a modest 7800 rpm.
Back 5 years later and still love all things RS
The Focus RS RX didn't become a success overnight. Watch our year in review and discover the research, innovation, and passion that went into developing our race-winning RX vehicle.
What was your favorite moment from the Focus RS RX's inaugural year?
Ford Performance My favorite moment was Gymkhana 9
I'd have to agree, Gymkhana 9.
Ill rally one Ford an Rs
A focus wrc in some form, even if its a different car wins my local rally every year beating out hundreds of entrants, locally and internationally, Ford is king where i am from.
Thank you Ford! Loving my RS!
Charlie Times I envy you ！！
@anglovirtual You're a dipshit
I love Ford. All Ford cars are absolutely awesome especially the RS. The RS is my dream car. I love Ford and always will. I own a ford and I will buy another 20 more if I had the money. Long live Ford.
thank you ford performance for everything that has gone into my focus rs.
all that work went into that Focus Rs. Not your Focus Rs.
@@awel69Ford Performance worked on the RS. M-Sport on Kens RSRX.
I still hope to get a RS . I worked in Chrysler engineering and it was good to see Fords dyno, mine was state of the art and the technology has moved on. A word to others in the business, "METS".
Could we as a consumer get a version of the ford focus RS RX, like a similar body style, wing, more hp, and more torque, bigger turbo?
Not from ford, you could build one yourself to the same specs for around 100-200k though. And at that point it is a true race car, as in rebuilding the motor every thousand miles or so.
No you get one where the gasket blows after 30grand miles ...
Do they put there engine 2.0 eb from older focus?? I am right?? Grateful for reply
I LOVE FORD !!
I LOVE MY 2003 FOCUS !
This makes me a happy Norwegian Im so happy for Ford competing in Norway :D
I’ve been trying to figure the engine set up on this car!! Is it using the 2.0 ST or TS block?? Is it using the 2.3 single port head? Or is it using the 2.0 4 port head?? Would love to know the engine build on this car.
Phenomenal, this is how winning is done. 👍
We are waiting for the Hoonigan 2017 raptor!!!!!!!
Can we get a soundtrack listing please?
Anybody know any of the music tracks on this vid?
MK3 ,, i love my car"😎👌🏼
thanks you Ford thanks you Ken and Andreas
Wonderful. But now Hoonigan/ Ford WRC is no more?
Go ford
I love Ford
Now if only Ford would sell Rally parts for all MK3 Focus we will be in business.
Love this. You want a successful race car...... BUILD IT IN ENGLAND. Great work guys
TheTorkerman-Adam why in England?
You know I got in in dirt 4
Ford needs to fix their eco boost problem. That carbon buildup is not acceptable.since it doesn’t have to be that way. All that’s needed is to install a port injection also, like Toyota did with their 2:5 letter engine. Other than that the engines are pretty good. Kind of cheap but pretty good.
Ford, the only RS!
While I'd love to agree there, you're forgetting Porsche
nice racing car
just audio?
So, for the good understander, what basically happened is probably this: Ford quit WRC but still had the infrastructure. After partial economic recovery, someone proposed Rallyecross instead of WRC and said, "don't worry about the cost, we can use the WRC Fiesta and save 80% of the cost", also because we do not have our own works team but a privateer to run the team for us. The board agreed to the project and in view of the easy task, with a very tight timeframe. Then it turned out that Rallyecross is far more demanding on the engine and suspension and that a Fiesta is not a Focus. So everybody had to work 24h a day to meet the time schedule and the budget was probably overrun several times. End result, the car was not tested enough pre season. You gotta love corporate decision making! But seriously, Rallyecross is in my view second rate sport compared to WRC. This does the brand no good (sorry rallyecross lovers, I do not have anything against your sport).
Bunch of boring stuff about the team and their efforts and a bunch of glimpses here and there of work being done but ALL I wanted to see is the actual layout and general descriptions of what car has ....HUGE thumbs down boring as hell and the video utterly fails to simply show like "here is the motor in the car and what it is and here is the transmission and drive train components here is the suspension....decriptions detailing how the car is out together ...all the personality stuff and team stuff is barely interesting ....wasted my time I wanted to see how it is either similar or radically different from the production cars....NOT satisfying to watch
I know it's rally car but its still a hatchback
I don't get what's so cool about it
Oh and fix the crappy brakes on the RS. The Brembos catch fire in moderate canyon driving as seen on MotorTrend magazineTV. A Golf R smoked the RS they had in simple Canyon carving. And the Golfs brakes were still good wereas the RS frt brakes actually caught fire and had terrible fade. There are less expensive, much better alternatives to Brembo garbage.
Michael Harris dude, this video is entirely about the RSRX
Like they will even bother reading this.
They won't use Brembo road brakes on this car, they will have race specification brakes with a ridiculously good cooling system and they will be worth a fortune!!
Mine work fine
How about no more false advertising Ford?... How about rating your performance products on 91 octane like everyone else? Your ecoboost cars need to make max power without an "overboost" function. And why, WHY are you making your cars into fat, heavy Dodges? Weight hurts mpg's, hurts acceleration, braking, cornering, etc. today's mustang V8 is no quicker than the 2011 mph model, handles no better, sure it rides better, more like a Buick, which is aweful, but hey. Or the dull, dim tri-bar LED DRL's on mustang? Barely visible in daylight. Why call them DRL's if you can't see them. Those DRL's dim down 35% from engine off to engine on, too.
The RS is way overrated, under powered, over weight, etc. it's not worthy of a 36k price tag. 32k, sure.... And Ford dealers are gouging on prices with 10-20k over msrp. The other problem is that there are now over 770 RS Focus on dlr lots. Mostly loaded RS2 units. People don't want a loaded car made for the track. Lots of people are also wrecking their RS's. Drift mode needs to be dropped. The rear diff needs a cooler, and the car needs a 150+ lb weight drop, then the 36k price MIGHT be plausible. When this near 3475 lb car gets reeled in by 292 hp Golf R's on the roll, it's a sign the RS is not making advertised power and is way to heavy. A carbon or aluminum hood, fenders and rear hatch would help, along by with a 3 door RS like the original. If, IF, by chance there's a 450 hp RS in the pipes, for 40k, then it would make sense. But the Golf R and soon Civic Type R both destroy RS on a track and in terms of acceleration, other than a brief jump to 30 mph, the RS gets pulled and pummeled by its competitors. Same for mustang. The fat heavy mustang needs TQ. It needs brighter DRL LED's, so does the RS, it needs a change to its face. That hood on the mustang needs to not stick out over the headlights, and catch air like a sail, like the 2015-17' models do, the hood and headlights need to be flush. Are the mustang engineers out of middle school in the aerodynamics department? Bring the SVO name back, lighten the car 150-200 lbs so it's close to a V6 Camaro in weight instead of a 2014 mustang GT. Crank the boost to 350 and a nice ce bi-wing spoiler out back, just like the original, oh, and a NACA Duct Type hood scoop. You'll sell Ecoboost mustangs so fast you'll struggle to keep up with demand. I know these things because I hear it every day from mustang owners and potential customers. Ditch the X-pipe in the exhaust, and stick some beefy sound in there with an H-pipe. And bring back a true Highland Green Bullitt or Mach1... Last.y, a new Cobra to replace the GT500, with no more than 3700 lbs, sticky tires, and 750 hp, and it should be a beast. Also offer options to strip it down or a track version to compete with the Dodge Demon. Hp is nothing if you don't have grip. Your not winning, if your spinning. Thx.
Michael Harris wtf
Let him be, some people just need fantasy in order to stay "alive".
I raced ford when everyone else ran chevy I even ran a smaller motor and got a 200 pound weight reduction for the smaller engine. chevys all ran a 350 ci small block bored to 358 cubic inches. I ran the humble 302 cleaned up the bore and it came in at 305 cubic inches. Had an exceptional good handling T bird and one the champion ship three years in a row set fastest lap times broke numerous records and ran the same engine three years before it finally cracked and gave up the ghost. It turned 8800 rpm for many 100 lap features got protest so many times lost count ans always legal always they had to pay to put my engine back together. Chevy junk when I ran them I'd go through sometimes three engines in one season. After I won so many times after the third year a third of the field changed over to Ford engines and cars and they said if they were in the know they would have been running Ford all along. I now own a 2017 Focus RS, with twin turbochargers and numerous other drivetrain mods. Runs the quarter mile in 8.99 seconds at 147 mph. At little river dragstrip has over 1300 hp at the flywheel @ a modest 7800 rpm.
Lol I’m sure that RS really exists