After lusting over the forbidden fruit known as the Mk. finally received a hot hatch worthy of the particularly exclusive name SVT, or Special Vehicle Team. With Fiesta and Focus ST’s holding their value securely as well, those of us tight-budgeted American enthusiasts of the hot Ford hatch have only one real direction to turn 2002’s Ford Focus SVT. But those models somewhat lack that sheer nonsensical sensibility of pouring power and other awesome bits into a tiny hatchback and labeling it RS. Sure, we have the Focus and Fiesta ST’s, which are fantastic modern hot hatchbacks, respectively. We in the United States, however, were left out from these earlier generations and never quite received an all-out bonkers model until this year. So, if one in those lands across the sea wishes to take a bite out of the ludicrous Ford tossability, they have ample room for budget and selection. Now, overseas the European market received the previous 2 generations (3 if you count the 2010 Focus RS500) of Ford’s rather fanatical RS hot-hatchery. With the arrival of the Brazenly-Blue and incredibly drifty sensation known and the 2016 Ford Focus RS, all that I have been able to think about is I want me some of that! My current position as a fairly-broke student car enthusiast, however, means that I as well as many others, simply have no way of financially accessing the new Focus RS for the perceivable future.

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