When combined with manual gearboxes though, they can provide an ultra-fun drive. The Ford Focus RS500 Is The Most Powerful ...

On paper, the original Focus RS won’t blow your mind with its performance figures, but the way it behaves on a twisty mountain road will make you want to burn the paper, sell your SUV, and buy one as ...

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Over in Europe, Ford made a hard-edged RS version of the kindly MK 1 Focus just three years after the car’s 2000 introduction. However, we never saw that, largely because American appetites for ...

The third-gen Ford Focus RS was a revelation when it arrived a decade ago. It put the entire hot hatch segment on notice, much like the Toyota GR Yaris did half a decade later, combining rally-car ...

With only a relative handful made, this track-ready, special-edition Ford hot hatch is a rare bird these days.

Ford's investment in performance driving goes well beyond the production of its Mustang models. In fact, the domestic automaker runs a pair of racing schools in North Carolina and Utah, aptly known as ...

Meet the forgotten member of Ford’s performance family, the 2002 Focus ST Mk1. Overshadowed by icons like the Cosworth and RS ...

It’s a shame that Ford decided against building an RS version of the latest-generation Focus as such a car could have proven to be one of the last great hot hatches. It’s fortunate then that the Focus ...

The Focus was the small car that took Ford into the 21st century. Ford wanted to replicate the success of the Escort, which sold well around the world throughout the '80s and '90s. A few years before ...