{"id":508,"date":"2008-03-10T09:10:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T09:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/03\/10\/unofficial-pict\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:29:56","slug":"unofficial-pict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/03\/10\/unofficial-pict\/","title":{"rendered":"Unofficial pictures of the Ford Focus RS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/focus_rs_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/focus_rs_1.jpg\" alt=\"Focus_rs_1\" class=\"image-full\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/><\/a> Pictures of the long-awaited Ford Focus RS have emerged on the Internet. None have been confirmed by a carmaker\u2019s announcement at the Geneva Motor Show.<\/p>\n<p>There is some doubt whether those pictures are official or not. However, they seem to be realistic enough to be taken seriously. With the RS, Ford will go wild and the future owners won\u2019t have to be ashamed when compared to the Japanese clique, Mitsubishi Lancer and Subaru Impreza, a least at a glance. Indeed, the Focus RS will only come with a two-wheel drive transmission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/focus_rs_31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"254\"  src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/focus_rs_3.jpg\" alt=\"Focus_rs_3\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/><\/a> Without a four-wheel drive system, the 2.5-litres five cylinder petrol engine will have trouble to send its 280bhp and its 295lb ft to the front wheels. Ford engineers added an electronic differential to master the power, but history has proved this kind of technical solution never really worked.<\/p>\n<p>The car is expected to be launched at the next British Motor Show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/focus_rs_2_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"293\"  src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/focus_rs_2_2.jpg\" alt=\"Focus_rs_2_2\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of the long-awaited Ford Focus RS have emerged on the Internet. None have been confirmed by a carmaker\u2019s announcement at the Geneva Motor Show. There is some doubt whether those pictures are official or not. However, they seem to be realistic enough to be taken seriously. With the RS, Ford will go wild and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":6209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ford"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unofficial pictures of the Ford Focus RS - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/03\/10\/unofficial-pict\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Unofficial pictures of the Ford Focus RS - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Pictures of the long-awaited Ford Focus RS have emerged on the Internet. 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