Video: Focus RS500 is alive

Ford drip feeds details of its hardest hot hatch to performance junkies – next stop, video…

19 April 2010

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Ford Focus RS500

How To Make A Great RS Video: Take one 345bhp Focus RS500. Find some corners. Film it. Add thumping drum n' bass soundtrack.

In other words, Ford has released Actual Real Footage of the RS500 being thrashed around some desolate-looking country roads in all its Batman-spec glory.

See more pics of Focus RS500

The RS500, remember, is the uber-hatch which despatches 345bhp and 340lb ft of torque through its front wheels in a whirlpool of violence.

It does the 0-62mph dash in just 5.6 seconds - a fingernail faster than the standard RS - and tops out at 163mph. If you can keep it in a straight line that is...

See pics of the Mountune Ford Focus RS

So turn up the volume and enjoy a minute's worth of RS500 goodness, complete with some rather fetching drum n' bass. Innit.

Vijay Pattni

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I WANT THAT CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It'f f*cking brutal!

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I heard they sold out the British allotment of the 500 cars (100 or so coming here) on the first day after the initial announcement. They're just rubbing it in people's faces now.

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This is the only other car I want from Ford other that the Mustang this Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thrashed? I've driven that fast in my Punto! Sure, there was a bit more body roll and a lot less menace and noise, but still...

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Filthy, dirty beast of a car! Mega!

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