Originally Posted by RWD_cossie_wil

Being as bored as a Badger, I was reading through the performance tables in Performance ford the other night, and spotted the old A1 Rallysport focus's times . What made that car soooo fast? Running a pretty standard 500bhp spec engine, T4, 8 injectors etc etc, nothing too mad on the engine side, but the 0-100 times were insane! somthing like 7.4 secs off the top of my head What sort of diff was it running, and is it because the shell was so stiff etc or just clever rear geometry? You see a lot of 3doors / saffs etc running that sort of power and they struggling to get into the 9 secs for 0-100, I assume due to bad traction etc