embossed with the RS logo, and a plaque registering your car’s place in the production run give a sense of occasion to what’s essentially a standard Focus interior. But as any Fast Ford fan ...

Add one part horsepower, one part attitude. Stir vigorously. That’s more or less how the Ford Focus RS was born. After 15 years in Europe, the Focus RS — short for Rally Sport — is finally ...

Hot-hatch enthusiasts are basically foaming at the mouth for Ford’s latest Focus RS — and with 350 horsepower on tap, all-wheel drive, and a dedicated drift mode, they very well should be.

HIGHS Tenacious grip, four-season versatility, Ford's legendary RS pedigree. LOWS Vise-Grip Recaro seats, pogo-stick suspension, basic Focus interior fittings. VERDICT Your fire-breathing shuttle ...

With its pops and bangs exhaust, drift mode, and all-wheel drive system with torque vectoring, the 2015 Ford Focus RS sent its main competitors back to the drawing board to improve their hot hatches.

The Ford Focus RS is the ridiculously powerful hatchback Europe has been teasing us with for years. But now the heavens smile upon the U.S. and will grace us with Ford's craziest family car.

UPDATE: Ford just wrote us to clarify that while the all-new Focus RS just introduced in Europe won’t be for sale in the U.S., “Ford intends to bring some new RS’ to the US (as we’ve ...

So you thought it was unlikely that a Ford Focus could successfully shift 305 horsepower through its front tires? Well, the Euro-spec Focus RS did. Now consider the probability or otherwise of ...

The Ford Focus RS was a high-performance, all-wheel-drive variant of the mainstream Focus compact car. Though the car debuted for 2002 in the European market, Ford didn’t offer the RS in the ...