There’s been a great deal of fuss made about the new Ford Focus RS. Why wouldn’t there be? It’s the latest in a long lineage of the greatest, fastest Ford road cars. Yet despite everything that is brilliant about the new RS, one feature that was originally a bit of an afterthought has hogged most of the attention.
NOV 28th 2016
Video: Top 5 Ford Focus RS features (that aren't drift mode)
The infamous “drift mode”. Engineers during the development of the RS realised they had a great deal of trick hardware on the table, and a brain that they could code to make said hardware do some silly, skiddy, smoky things. Lo and behold, one of the greatest performance car marketing features was born. But once you get past the novelty (and the reality that this is a feature that will likely see little use), there is a magnificent hot hatch. In the video above, we take you through what we think are the five best features on the new RS, and there’s no mention of drift mode.
What's your favourite hot hatch?
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