Test drive Ford Focus st 5 doors 2005 - 2007 hatchback
Orange threat
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The morning of the owner of Ford Focus ST is the morning of a happy and carefree person. He wakes up, looks out of the window of his beautiful, at least 4-story, and sees this car in the yard. As colorful as a dream, the remnants of which flies from a carefree motorist faster than snowflakes falling outside the window. He breaks out of the arms of the best friend and goes to the wardrobe.
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Having equipped, he goes down. Slowly. He goes through the garage past all his Bentley, Ferrari, BMW and Lamborghini. They are abandoned. Today they are not destined to growl with motors and scresh brakes. He goes past them to Ford Focus St. A stunning orange fruit. Focus ST attracts the driver with his fantastic sports. Fantastic in the sense that it seems extremely difficult to realize it in real life.
The Ford Focus ST model is designed by the Ford Team RS department specializing in the brand racing cars. The abbreviation ST is deciphered as Sports Technologies. Production has been established at the Ford factory in the German city of Saarluis. The sports version is assembled on the same conveyor with the usual Ford Focus and Focus C-Max. True, specifically for ST to the conveyor, I had to stretch an additional line for the delivery of the Recaro seats. The plans for the current year include the release of more than 3600 new 225-horsepower Focus ST. The exceptional orange color of the new car is the result of using a new technology for applying Electric Orange. In addition to an orange, which has a fluorescent property, the Focus ST model can be painted in other, more familiar to the eye of the color.
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Partly I understand this person. In my opinion, Focus ST is a breakthrough. But a breakthrough of such a properties and scale, which is organized on a dispute anywhere, anywhere and from anyone. When the designer is haunted by young years, he is able to even turn a wooden horse into something similar to a car.
I understand that during my own driving in sports cars, I do not leave normal cars any chance to even seem like that and make the impression of an old bore. But listen to the old bore a little more.
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Ford Motor Company thinks more about the owner’s safety than the possibility of implementing his Schumacher ambitions. The ESP system with desperate maneuvers - I allowed myself some liberties - it turns on again. Even if before that you are by force and surely disabled it.
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Nikolai Fomenko is not the only representative of the motorsport who personally checked the Ford Focus St in the case. In October last year, the car was tested by the Roman of the Cross and Tony Chardemister, piloting the Ford Focus WRC at the World Rally Championship, as well as the head of the M-SPORT department, Malcolm Wilson. The latter was especially generous for compliments to Focus ST: in my opinion, this is one of the best cars ever created by Ford. It has the most modern dynamic characteristics and controllability and is suitable for drivers of all ages. The torque - one of the most important characteristics of the engine is simply magnificent. I was amazed at the stability of this car, its magnificent driving qualities, the dynamic characteristics of the suspension and controllability
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Of course, I would like to be in the place of designers, as they say, to a heap of sports accessories. Even fake. I would add a body kit. So that everyone at once and accurately understands that they have a combat apparatus and behind him is a man who is not used to leaving abandoned gloves unanswered.
I would stick the car with stupid things in the form of, for example, a Chinese nozzle on a muffler for $ 15. In the XXI century, Chinese nozzles are no longer ashamed. I would replace the seat belts in the cabin, putting wide straps in three girths. So that the front passenger wanted to put on a helmet. So that he thinks that he was going at least with a veteran instructor, who was awarded Focus S for length of service. Then exactly all Mazerati, Bentley and other supercars would have died under the pressure of Focus ST.
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Maybe I fell out of youth life forever, but I don’t know where you can go on it. On the races of street raisers-stupid. You will come last. On survival races - a little expensive. For fishing - absurdity. Bright orange glow scares all ichthyology.
Ford Focus ST, in my opinion, is a car out of the rules. And this is his concept, like any sweet, but not very practical, like a diamond in the kitchen, tachuli.
An ordinary focus without any ST in the same chic color will be much more convenient in everyday life. Focus St is like a foreign magazine. He smell him - he smells abroad. But to sell, in my opinion, it is difficult - few people understand the inner meaning.
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This is also a car for collectors. Because you need to selflessly love Fords in general and tricks in particular, you need to collect the entire Ford Focus lineup to buy a variety ST. Prefer it to some other car-Lotus, for example.
In general, I think that this car is released in the wake of the success of Ford in the WRC championship. The shadow of Carlos Sains stands in front of the owner of this car, when, sitting behind the wheel, he suddenly declares a beauty sitting nearby: I, baby, ended his career in motorsport the day before yesterday. And I can’t come to terms with this. More or less like this.
But they will sell a hundredth!
The sports character of Focus ST is confirmed by the fact of creating Focus RS World Rally Car on its basis. This racing apparatus was presented in December last year at the Bologna motor show and became
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Focus St is like a foreign magazine. He smell him - he smells abroad. But to sell, in my opinion, it is difficult - few people understand the inner meaning.
Text Nikolay Fomenko, photo Tatyana Salyutova
We thank for help in organizing the shooting of CJSC Ford Motor Company, (495) 777-8500, and the Russian Automobile Association.
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Ford Focus ST
Gasoline engine, with turbocharged
Working volume (cubic cub) 2522
Power (L.S. at rpm) 225 at 6000
Moment (Nm at rpm) 320 at 1800-4000
Front drive
Gearbox 6-speed, mechanical
Length/width/height (mm) 4362/1840/1447
Wheel base (mm) 2640
Equipped mass (kg) 1317
Maximum speed (km/h) 241
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 6.8
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 13.8/6.8
The cost of a car in Moscow from $ 29 950
A source: "Autopilot"