Thursday, June 09, 2005
New Focus?
There's talk on Autocar of 3-litre, 6 cylinder, turbocharged, all-wheel drive Ford Focus. Now there are parts of this story that sound feasible to me, parts that sound desirable, and parts that sound wrong.
The all-wheel drive bit sounds very feasible. As does the turbocharging. Funnily enough, those bits also sound desirable to me.
The bit with the 3-litre, 6 cylinder engine from the unreleased Volvo S80? Not so much. To me, 3 litres and 6 cylinders sounds great, but not all hanging over the front wheels of something that has pretensions of being sporty. And the 2-litre motor that currently resides in the Focus actually seems to be a reasonably good thing, and would only improve its reputation with a turbocharger providing some extra huff.
Besides which, for the Focus RS to be a Group N Rally car proposition (against the Subaru WRX STi and Mitsubishi Lancer Evoloution VIII), the engine capacity has to be a 2 litre turbocharged device. And I would think it both feasible and desirable that Ford have a Group N rally challenger.
The all-wheel drive bit sounds very feasible. As does the turbocharging. Funnily enough, those bits also sound desirable to me.
The bit with the 3-litre, 6 cylinder engine from the unreleased Volvo S80? Not so much. To me, 3 litres and 6 cylinders sounds great, but not all hanging over the front wheels of something that has pretensions of being sporty. And the 2-litre motor that currently resides in the Focus actually seems to be a reasonably good thing, and would only improve its reputation with a turbocharger providing some extra huff.
Besides which, for the Focus RS to be a Group N Rally car proposition (against the Subaru WRX STi and Mitsubishi Lancer Evoloution VIII), the engine capacity has to be a 2 litre turbocharged device. And I would think it both feasible and desirable that Ford have a Group N rally challenger.
# posted by Fro : Thursday, June 09, 2005
