First Drive: 2012 Ford Focus

[kou]

Well the USA missed out on the allwheel drive focus with 300hp and i think they will skip the new RS model also.

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by kou

Well the USA missed out on the allwheel drive focus with 300hp and i think they will skip the new RS model also.

Those would probably be $30+K. They just wouldn't sell enough to justify. Although it would be good competition for the WRX/STI & Lancer EVO. Those established models have a hard enough time selling as it is.

[tk1971]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

Those would probably be $30+K. They just wouldn't sell enough to justify. Although it would be good competition for the WRX/STI & Lancer EVO. Those established models have a hard enough time selling as it is.

I whole-heartedly agree. At the end of the day, very few regular Joes will be willing to spend $30k on a turbo AWD car based on an Econo-box chasis.

These cars don't get any better in the used market. Trust me... Try selling a 2 year old EVO IX for about $25k privately... The kind of people who know what these cars are, won't have $25k to buy a used car. With all the supposed fan base that these cars have on the internet, I suspect most of them are under aged fan-boys driving around in their parents' Volvo and dreaming of the EVO / STI.