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04-19-2010, 02:20 PM
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Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/make/ford/) committed an outright insult to humanity when it only produced 101 examples of the Focus (http://www.autoblog.com/model/focus) RS500. Even at over $54,000 at current conversion rates, the cars sold out licked-split in the UK, leaving plenty of diehard Blue Oval fans without the hottest of the company's hatches. In an attempt to right that wrong, Ford has released an upgrade kit that will give the standard 305 horsepower RS the teeth it needs to run with the big-daddy RS500 (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/29/ford-focus-rs500-hacks-out-onto-the-internet-ahead-of-schedule/).

The engineers at Ford have managed to pull an extra 45 horsepower from the turbo I5 by swapping out the stock intercooler and air box for trick Ford Racing pieces, bolting on a higher volume fuel pump and remapping the stock ECU. The whole kit will set you back around $3,000, which means you could be in an RS500 clone for nearly $10k less than what the real deal would cost you. We'll take ours in Frozen White, please. Hop the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/19/with-the-focus-rs500-sold-out-in-uk-ford-creates-official-upgra/#continued) for the press release.


Gallery: 2009 Ford Focus RS (green) (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-ford-focus-rs-3/low/)

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Gallery: 2009 Ford Focus RS (blue) (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-focus-rs-in-blue/low/)

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