2010 Ford Focus RS500 to be added to legendary collection

By Brett Davis | September 02nd, 2010

The Ford Focus RS500 was built to a limited production run of just 500. It’s one of those cars that is on every car and driving enthusiasts wish list, even Ford wants one parked in its garage. And that’s what they’ve done.

Yes, Ford is going to give one of the Focus RS500 editions to a heritage collection garage in London. Numbered 001, the car the company is donating to the internal museum was apart of the initial fleet of press vehicles and will be displayed along side many other great Ford legends. Such as the 1970 Ford Escort that won the London to Mexico rally in the Seventies.

Ford predicts the car will be a rare and highly sought-after classic in the future so it wants to keep one of them in good hands. Ford corporate affairs manager, Brian Bennett, said in a recent report,

“The Ford Focus RS500 was an obvious choice to include as a future classic.”

In case you didn’t know, the Ford Focus RS500 is powered by a cracking turbocharged five-cylinder engine so it sounds half like a Lamborghini Gallardo V10. But it’s more powerful than half the V10, offering 261kW.

Although the car is front-wheel drive extensive engineering has been developed to transmit all that grunt efficiently onto the road using a sophisticated limited-slip differential. This helps the RS achieve 0-100km/h in just 5.6 seconds.

All of the other 499 cars have been sold since it first hit the market in March this year.

Joker

And so say all of us.
billy

I thought the RS500 wasn’t front-wheel drive. I thought it had a four-wheel system.
Dale

I think you mean ‘sought after’, not ‘sort after’.

Dale

Thanks for making the change Brett. Who’d have thought a Gen Y’er would be so particular about grammar?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1435885244 Yani Hendriawan

how but if they make a car in limited editions like this they put you through a driving course or something so you don’t end up crashing one of these babies
davie

Don’t know if Ford and Mazda still share much tech but it would be great if Mazda could put this revo knuckle front suspension under the MPS.

It would sort out the torque steer that journo’s keep going on about.
ybfather2

may as well be
ABMPSV

Not bad but I just saw on the net Skoda Fabia Coupe with 2 liter TFSI engine 500Hp @ 7.800 rpm and 600Nm @ 3.700 rpm and the 2.7 sec time for the 0 to 100km/h. This car is out since May 2007.

phase3

I also just saw a 1.5 litre 4-cylinder turbo from 1985 that produced 1500hp. But it’s in an F1 car. And has absolutely no relevance to this article at all. Just like the (one-off rally) Skoda that you mention. So what’s your point?
Qikturbo

Taken from the EVO Mag.Sept ’10

“The end result is a Fiesta capable of putting out up to 838bhp(625kw) – though it has been detuned to 641bhp(484kw) in order to give Block the torque band he needs to keep the car under control – and 660 lb ft(894nm) of torque from 4000 rpm. It takes just two seconds to rocket Block from 0-60 mph.”

The above describes Ken’s Block Rally FORD FIESTA he has driven in his Gymkana 3 stunt extravganza.
Now …somebody mentioned about some girly Skoda rally car ???

ABMPSV

Your Skoda girly car this year beat Ford Fiesta factory team from 8 times from 9 races. Skoda finished 5 times 1,2 and 3 times 1,2,3!!

Qikturbo

Skoda has no history or credentials in motorsports.It is a big nothing in racing as it is with it’s road going vehicles.

ABMPSV

Skoda started rally in 1970′s and with John Haugland won 14 races. Source: Rallybase.nl Skoda is big something. Check car sale around the worl not just here. Read JD Power reports.
F1MotoGP

You saying Audi, VW is nothing. They use the same engine and chassis as Skoda!!