Test Drive Ford Focus RS since 2008 Hatchback
Fit in childhood
The delight is an amazing and pleasant feeling, but the older you become, the harder it is to experience it. Children - they are always delighted, from Li, tickling or soap bubbles. By and large, they don't care than to admire. And to the one who grows, you have to resort to doping, so that it really has become truly. And it is not at all that you need to eat something, drink and all that other. For delight, something is special, to visit the last LED Zeppelin concert, for example, or, swimming, suddenly meet dolphins. But this time we cost only the highest dynamic characteristics of the new Ford Focus RS. Now it is he who has the right to be called the most powerful today Ford Focus, who revealed this title from Focus ST with its seemingly weak 225 horsepower under the hood against a powerful 305 in Focus RS. And they can not go anywhere from these comparisons. After all, for men who are always measured, the power of the engine of their car is not the last expression of their self. But those men who, after a test drive, crawled out from the driver's seats, were not to dry numbers. They were delighted, and this did not pass this for quite a long time. Usually what makes a man after a trip on a new car? He says that the suspension is so-so, but the responsiveness of the gas pedal is excellent, and everything in such a spirit. And here - just clean delight in the eyes. And then long discussion about whether RS \u200b\u200bis such a poisonous green color. Usually because men are never discussing, it is such a maiden theme for silly. If you are delighted, stupidity ceases to be a human measure for you.
But Meril for the car, especially those whose initials are decrypted as Rally Sport, the passage of Nurengring Nurgroupering loop at high speed remains. What was the speed of subcuting the Nordshaife charged on the most spoiler focus, is not specified. Overcoming the car circles of the legendary track, not sparing tires Continental, and wound there more than 400 laps (8000 km) - and everything to increase racing opportunities.
The dynamic characteristics of RS are calculated until recent seconds, meters and horsepower. Acceleration to hundreds - 5.9 s, the maximum speed is 263 km / h, the capacity of the 2.5-liter engine, as already mentioned, 305 hp At the same time, the car does not have a four-wheel drive, as recently, it is taken from similar machines, and the front. Focus RS is the most powerful front-wheel drive car from all that you can now buy from cargo players who are currently traded not only by small-caps, sedans, minivans and other things, but also delight.
Refusal to make an RS all-wheel drive is motivated by an increase in the weight of the machine, its inertia, fuel consumption. Developers made a car more responsive to the rotation of the steering wheel and easier. At the same time, RS is 75 kg harder than its younger brother Focus ST - due to an increase in the diameter of the wheel and brake discs, tires, the appearance of aerodynamic elements and additional cooling elements. And at the same time RS is much sporty. Under the hood, the Duratec RS engine bubbles, which was based on the ST Motor, 2.5-liter 5-cylinder DURATEC. It was raised power and torque, without lowering the wear resistance. The engine has been subjected to numerous changes, the most noticeable of which is the appearance of a new intake system, a new exhaust manifold and a new turbocharger that provides a maximum permanent pressure of 1.4 bars. It is twice as much as St, thanks to which the engine power increased by 35%.
But Ford Focus RS does not so much the motor provides amazing driver's sensations as a complex change in the car as a whole. Extended Pitch, Front Suspension with Revoknuckle Technology, Improved Clutch and Handling With different situations, large ventilated front brake discs, compressing closer closers with one cylinder, brake pads made of high friction coefficient, tighter springs connected to thicker and long transverse stability stabilizers. Such a detailed and eaten improvement in the car exacerbated his management so much that at times you forget that you are driving the Focus RS wheel on the way of general use, and not on the racing track.
With each transmission switching, the car is not simply accelerated, but it does it as if reloading that only adds kurazha to a vacuum with a specially configured system for creating a sports fruit. This guttural sound, like a bright green and body kit, will undoubtedly allocate a car from a huge flow of focus, because it creates the impression that it is Focus that has long become truly a natural Russian car. But RS is not like that. He seemed to go to us from the screen not yet filmed Forsazh-5, where it could be quite replaced by himself in one of the subaru Impreza WRX STI versic, explicit glue-plays from Furçazha-4.
RS is lower and wide compared to the usual Focus. So he not only looks cool, he has increased the clamping force and reduced the rise of the body at high speeds due to the aerodynamic elements designed specifically for RS. And two panels with blinds on the hood are not intended to be worn around for him to hold on to him, they still improve the engine cooling at idle. Just when the race has already been completed and the grateful viewers are crowded closer to the hero. The driver's girlfriend, by the way, will not be easy to spend training races with him. Aggressive driving, multiplied by permanent surges, will become a real test for the passenger vestibular apparatus. The responsiveness to each road roughness of the suspension can also turn a trip to the rally attraction, and you will hang out in the Recaurian buckets, as if the Rallylist Gronholm and Rautiainen, pilots of the BP-Ford World Rally Team.
But, in the end, the developers created RS as a car that answers not only the needs of a gambling driver, but also a comfortable daily operation. Is it more suitable for riding a job and grocery shopping? Completely, and no fatigue from his driving, which can be a power, do not feel, except that the seats are harsh. Yes, the passenger annoying something else requires: yes, you click on the gas pedal! Yes, go already faster!. It is understandable. Emit quickly get used to. And addiction is already addiction. And here's the eyes of the passenger, the thirsty of the high-speed adventure, sad from fresh sixty kilometers per hour. And then truth, you need to push. After all, in adult life, we all lack soap bubbles and splashes from under wheels Focus RS.
Ford Focus RS.
2.5 L DRATEC RS Engine
power 305 hp At 6500 rpm
torque 440 nm at 2300-4500 rpm
Acceleration up to 100 km / h 5,9 s
Maximum speed 263 km / h
Fuel consumption in a mixed cycle 100 km 9.4 liters
Price 1 498 800 rub.
Text: Anna Kilimnik
Photo: Ford of europe
A source: "Autopilot"
