The RS500 Carbon Piranha is the ultimate restomod for fans for fans of the Ford Sierra. Vision 148 is the group responsible for this reimagined homologation special. Even better is it that plans to give the car away to one superfan at the end of the build process. How fricken cool is that? Follow Double […]
Ford has a long and proud tradition of rallying around the world. They have slid and sloshed through dirt stages with cars such as the Escort, RS200, Focus, Fiesta and most recently the Puma. The one Ford we’ve not associated with rallying is the Mustang. But the Blue Oval plans to change that with the […]
Dallara is a name that is probably known to most race fans. To say that the Italian specialist firm has built a few successful racecars is the same as saying Lewis Hamilton has won a few F1 races… After years of producing bespoke machinery for others, the company built its own road car called the […]
The guys over at UK website Car Wow have wrangled yet another great video. This time its a hyperhatch drag race featuring some of the heaviest hitters in the class. Watch as the Mercedes-AMG A35, BMW M140i, Golf R, Audi S3 and Ford Focus RS do battle over the standing quarter mile, and a few […]
Model: Ford Focus RS Gearbox: 6 Speed Manual Tranmission Engine: 2.3 Litre Inline 4 Cylinder Turbocharged Power: 257 kW @ 6 000 r/min Torque: 440 Nm @ 1 600 – 5 000 r/min Licensing Mass: 1 306 kg Power to Weight: 196.784 kW / Tonne Power to Capacity: 113.667 kW / Litre 0-100 km/h: 5.11 Seconds […]
Model: Ford Focus RS Engine: 2.5 Litre 5 Cylinder Turbocharged Power: 224 kW @ 6 500 r/min Torque: 440 Nm @ 2 300 r/min 0-100 km/h: 6.02 seconds ¼ Mile: 14.49 seconds @ 162.30 km/h 1 Km: 26.02 seconds @ 206.90 km/h Actual Top Speed: 253.79 km/h @ 7 000 r/min in 6th gear […]
All-wheel drive hot hatches are now commonplace; Mercedes-AMG A45, Audi S3 and Ford Focus RS are just a few. A new take Honda decided to stick with the front-wheel-drive recipe for its latest Civic performance model. But the guys at Orbis have decided to create their own all-wheel-drive Type R. The system uses an in-wheel […]
