Kev.H

So i heard Cancelled Friday 2 much hassle cost from a source of a source at Dunton

Bloke on the Ford stand today was denying it saying they are still gauging interest.... but he lies

Let hope im wrong but i dont think I am

SteveB

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Bummer

3drbadboy

that looked the dogs bo***ks too !!!!

JBcos

sooo hope that bolloxs, gotta be made

andyhardy

Hope that isn't true - I'm first on the waiting list at my local dealer

rizla

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Kev.H

i wanted one 2 and so does a friend lets hope my source is wrong

GAZ W

What i want to know is what makes this fiesta RS turbo an accepted RS?? but the MK3 fiesta RS turbo is never accepted as a "proper" RS

andyhardy

Being an owner of a Fiesta RST I also wonder this - think this post might be hitting close to the real answer:

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68372

That and the fact that it was never used in any form of competition compared to the other RS Fords.



Andy

Kev.H

Pat Doran is building a Fiesta RS Rally X car so there u go RS Motorsport heritage

AD-RS1600i

Typical Ford. My mate used to work for Tickford who did the development work on the Focus RS engine and he said they must of spent millions developing the engine, what with there strict quality and reliability standards. So what do they do, after spending all this money developing the Focus RS, and selling all 4500 Focus RS cars in about ten seconds flat, well its quite logical really, you pull the plug on the whole thing and get back to making Focus ST170 or what ever the'sporty' Ford is now a days

Thanks goodness this current management board wasn't working at Ford during the early Eighties to mind Nineties, we'd nothing to buy

I dont understand it, I like the Fiesta RS concept, it looks brilliant, and based on Focus RS sales would have sold, the development work on the engine is done if a Focus RS unit was used? so why

Kev.H

Ford lost money on Every focus RS sold due to build issues ie dummy seats and wheels being put on then the correct ones being fitted by a humans after due to robot production line tolerencies

The Focus RS engine will live on in the new gen Focus ST

andyhardy

I thought they were changing to the 'really easy to work on when crammed in an engine bay' duratec V6 engine for the new ST Foci?

AD-RS1600i

Sounds like a mess up all round, but if you only sell 4500 how are you ever going to recope your costs....also Ford should know how to mass produce by now

Thanks for the info though mate

andyhardy

My sentiments exactly!

jagxj222

They only produce 4500 (well an extra focus RS was built to raise money for charity) because its a limited production. If they built 45000 or 450000 what would make them so special, then there would be so many smashed up ones sitting in scrap yards for people to go and raid parts off of and build up their 1.6 zetec models.....