I do think a lot of the comments are quite funny; slating it for not looking wild enough. A Saph was hardly wild was it? Nor was an S2 RST or FRST but people love them.

The RS has been built to appeal to the market and the market doesn't want cars that look like they have crashed into Halfords. People don't want a wide-arched, three door monster. They want something they can put their kids in easily and use to go to the shops, something that can do the normal stuff as well as the Sunday morning blast, something where they don't feel a total pleb when they pull up outside their gran's house.

Ford are selling them faster than they can make them, it's a 12 month wait for one and it's topping every road test/shoot-out it's taken part in. Job done I'd say.

One thing that is always certain in the Ford scene is that people will moan. Sadly a lot of people can't see past 1996 when the Escort Cossie was killed off. They look back on the 70s/80s/90s with rose-tinted specs and forget that there was actually a lot of other good stuff out there. The reality is that we've never had it so good. The current crop of fast Fords are probably the best ever and it sounds like the line-up is set to get even better judging by the things I've been hearing recently.

As for the slating of some of the opposition, I don't even know where to begin. The blinkers are just hilarious

That looks awful I actually think the forged black wheels suit it perfectly, I'd be very reluctant to change them.