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If it was 0930 ish then yep that was me.

Yes I am and yes I think it does. Oh yes...in so far as no other 4WD hatch can do what this thing does, and it does it at sane normal speeds. No, it's pretty much exactly what I hoped and expected it would be. Sort of...sometimes I think "come on, come on!" before I look at the speedometer and...

Never. You will be wrong! See above. In other news, while we had dry weather this morning myself and @Jeff simply had a chance to compare my RS and his M135i side by side, straight line acceleration, launching, and, err, drifting. Much fun was had...

I'll happily take some dynamic excitement when driving around corners over a laggy power delivery. It's certainly not lacking in a straight line unless you're comparing tenths vs an RS3/Golf R/A45. Including the initial fill up I've put £362.68 into it so far :fearscream: The fact that it's...

1,400 miles now, two weeks of daily use, after my initial 4 day 1,000 mile marathon...thoughts? I can see why people tune them. Doesn't feel especially fast in a straight line, its immense torque is so progressive in the way it rapidly builds that there's no hint of drama at all. Around turns...

I've already got a nice one owner low-miler lined up in a good few years time to run as a daily alongside my then retired RS. I can't think of anything else that I'd rather have. They are such good cars once you get past the image and/or stereotypical owner that you'll then be sat right beside!

In a Ford RS engineering team technical talk that a load of RSOC members went to they said that launch control should be sidestep the clutch and flat for the first shift. I wanted to try it out, but I've never done it before and it just feels wrong! I'm paranoid I'll time it wrong and use 350...

Nothing too special...Tesco Momentum 99RON - that's all my Fiesta ever had so I'm sticking with it for the RS.

That was the first time they'd been properly used in anger in 1,000 miles from new. Quite a few have reported them smoking like that when they first get hot. In this one they managed flames...

Demonstrations, just plain LOLS, and Goodwood pit lane getaways only for this...

I can get early to mid thirties if I put my mind to it...I've managed it for one trip to work so far and then my inner child took over again...which then gives me 25 to 26 mpg. I'm happy with that. It's been used domestically all day today...and the only slight issue was that the two plastic...

I'm 1,100 miles in now and it's still not been touched. I almost broke out the pressure washer earlier this evening but though "f**k it" and went for a blast across the Downs instead LOL

It's not so much 4th or 30mph that's impressive...but the 350 lbs ft you have at a shade over 2k rpm.

I genuinely thought I'd hate this...but it makes me giggle like an 8 year old every single morning ha ha!

Nice one Jeff. Once I'm used to some big angles let's go destroy some tyres LOL

It does move with it on but not much...a second gear exit from a tight roundabout does need a dab of oppo and it all feels very controllable...but I don't know if that's my mega skillz or the car doing it all for me. It's all run in...I had 1k miles done in 3.5 days...launch control video...

I've not gone balls out in the wet without traction control just yet...although I am comfortable with how the back moves around when exiting...I just don't know how much of that movement is limited by ESC intervention.

I've finally got around to finishing this off...the new car driving off the forecourt experience, first drive, first reactions, first thoughts...

That sounds amazing.

I once ran at Goodwood in my 172 Cup with some very very old track tyres I'd bought secondhand and stored for a few years. Halfway through session one I had to apply a small amount of lock to stay straight and by the end of the session I had a thump thump thump vibration from the front...

Almost but not quite...VED on the RS is £140 a year...although the base insurance quote before I bolted the basic essential 'extras' to it would have been £142 a year. That's good going! I was paying £370 per year but that did include cheap trackday cover as well.

So this morning I thought I ought to sort out some insurance as the Ford driveaway cover expires in a couple of days. Aviva, me and Sarah (who are both accident prone), Topcashback rebate included, £210 a year. That'll do. That's over £150 a year cheaper than my ST!

As said by many before the interior is old and pretty low rent. It's a little up on the ST but not much...and the firm damper setting does really shake sh*t about! All in good time :up: White ST was a complete coincedence. He went and bought it before he knew about my RS, but did so because...

Very likely. I've never been in anything powerful and AWD either so the traction I'm feeling is mad. It's more than that though I think, the way it really properly and noticeably pulls the nose in when you give it power while loaded up which eventually transistions very progressively in to...

Nope. Nothing. 1974 Triumph Toledo (RWD and with zero rear damping and remoulds, only 27bhp but still sideways everywhere) 1990 1.1L Fiesta 1997 Pug 306 1.9TD (Van Aaken optimised giving it a stonking 105bhp) 2001 Mondeo Zetec S V6 Then came the 172 Cup.

I'm hoping to get out at Goodwood before the summer is out. Knowing what I know about it and what it does it's going to me a very good thing around there. Yep. All this wait for the corner to open up, feed throttle in while unwinding steering, malarky is not required. At all. The bottom line...

...and breathe. 853 miles so far, that's 28 hours spent on b roads between the south coast and Farnborough. I'm knackered! Given the roads I was on and how I focused on driving it I considered it run in at 750 so to celebrate I found a private road and launched it. Twice. Nice. Very nice...

Here's as much of an update as I can right now chaps

In spite of it's weight it genuinely goes into corners just like the Fiesta did but with more overall grip, then, just when a squirt in the ST would push you wide a bootful in this brings the nose in and you get fired out driven firmly from behind with the fronts scrabbling away. It's epic...

Break time. 150 miles done. The rain came just in time, on small quiet tight 2nd gear roundabouts it's like a puppy on a polished wood floor with a little rear end wag on the way out. Only required a quarter turn dab of oppo so far. Note to self; must try harder.