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I've been really leaning on the Bridgestones this weekend, they hang on well! I'd like them gone before I do a trackday in the new year so I can get some Michelin PSS or PS4S on it. In other news I almost went around completely larking about in it earlier, all super slow <20mph stuff, it's...

Painted vents are up there with randomly coloured Ford badge overlays, I mean stickers. Hideous.

I'm running Bridgestone Potenza S001 and mine's not skittish in the wet at all. I'll be on PSS or PS4 next, that they're cheaper than anything on the RS is a bonus. Regardless of conditions you can pitch the 140 in just like the RS or ST, it takes a little longer to settle and the back only...

Cool car, but RWD? You'll leave the road backwards and die at some point this winter, at least, that's what the Ford boys keep telling me.

I like that. Makes it looks as if it was made for driving, which, with 9k miles on it already, you clearly enjoy doing Fletch!

Generally I don't do motorways but I did set a record for my car on Friday, 15 mile lunchtime drive home from work, 41.7 MPG, that's ridiculous. The trip is very accurate as well, calculates to within 0.2-0.3 MPG in reality! LOL I'm not 100% sure but it was a good few months back I think, I'm...

I've been in this for 3 weeks now and had an epic drive in this morning. Random thoughts in no particular order; Rev-matching; very effective, but why o why does it only do it if you downshift one gear at a time?!?!?! It knows what revs I need in 2nd gear at whatever speed I'm doing, so why not...

Nice video! For info you actually have what looks to be a Fabia VRS splitter...the original fitment ones from Renault rarely lasted long and IIRC they were over £100 for a replacement whereas the Fabia one is <£20.

Exactly this. I may have come across as a bit harsh on the 'box...the reality is, as you say, it is perfectly acceptable, no compromises are made. It's just not as good as the RS was; that was a very fine thing to stir.

See below...? Your standard 135i blew my Focus away! This thig really does feel rapid...the Focus used to make great progress, and it did some incredible things with its 4WD, but it never gave you a shove-in-the-back-f***-this-is-fast! feeling. I get that feeling every time I floor it in this...

This has confused the f*** out of a lot of people, RS to non-M car just doesn't compute...especially when I say that it's just as enjoyable to drive as the RS ? I would, yes! First time I depressed the clutch my foot stopped dead on the footrest, there was so little of it actually in contact...

Here we go then, the Goodwood Hot-Hatch Breakfast Club, a dyno run, and some random musings on how this thing is very similar to my Clio 172 Cup...

The floor hinged pedal has taken a different approach to just using the throttle generally. When heel toeing it works fine though. Filmed this morning, editing is currently WIP. I should have it uploaded tomorrow.

Surprisingly no! It must be the fat back tires...unless the roads have a really bad surface it mostly stays fully hooked up in the dry through 2nd gear. That's in a straight line, though. Introducing a single MM of steering input changes everything LOL I have the balance of the original...

Not sure if serious?! I've been shamelessly wh0ring myself on here for well over a decade!

SRR results yesterday are 356.8 bhp and 396 lbft or 537 NM. Torque!

Can anyone advise on wrap removal from my grille? I spoke to the original owner for an hour last night. As well as finding out what an absolute gem of car I've found, he also said that the usual chrome bits of the front grilles are wrapped black. He's also sending me the original grey mirrors...

I expect they will go a little lairy with the setup for the more powerful versions, but I understand it will be a 2.0 four-pot and, yeah, it may get some form of 4WD/AWD. What there won't be is anything that's simply a big engine up front and driven wheels at the back...which for years it what...

I find it really noticeable, the switch between comfort and sport+ is marked...not as night and day different as the switchable dampers of the FRS were, but my wife and children all noticed it when I secretly switched. As for how it is in terms of it being a truly active system reacting to...

Seeing that makes me want to go and buy it!!! In other news the original owner contacted me on IG last night. It has a few, internet essential, choice mods done already fixing some shortcomings they have as they leave the factory...under body bracing, radiator and paintwork protection and so...

Why would he mention it? It has no Field Service Action outstanding on it because it has the correct gasket fitted and the engine number matches what's on the V5...that's all any buyer needs to know. It does...just like my RS which, apart from the spoiler and exhausts, looked like just about...

Part-ex with the dealer I bought this from. He has it up on AT already. I still have the C-Max, that's been trouble free. Now that I have this I can see my wife wanting the BMW C-Max equivalent when we come to replace it. They are, very much. Without it you can feel that it has potential...

It's surpisingly frugal! 30 MPG driving it the same way that in my RS would see me getting 24. They're what I had on my Fiesta for years so I think they're good enough for now. It'll definitely be Michelin P4S when they get down to the canvas. I'm sure it will lose value but it has a few...

Having got thorughly fed up with continual dealership visits and a Focus RS that always had something wrong with it I finally cried "Enough!" and managed to find this peach. It was registered in March 2017 (the exact same day my RS started rolling down the production line!) and had 10,060 miles...

F***...that was over 12 years ago! I've been on here too long LOL

The RS has given me a taste for steering from the rear. I like that a lot. Also, the fact that the next gen 1 series will be FWD, have no straight six, and already you can no longer buy a manual 140 made me think that if I don't do this now, I may never get the chance. The RWD six cylinder 1...

If the rear seats was more usable and I could have found one with low miles for a straight swap, definitely. but having dropped £35k cash on the Focus just 18 months ago putting any more money into a car was a no no for me. I accept it's not the raw sharp thing the RS was, but with 340-360...

M140i, manual, killer spec. straight swap, same age, but with 4 new Bridgestones and 9k less miles than the RS. It actually feels like I've stolen it. Oh, and as Jeff has said many many times, it so needs a diff. Like really really badly.