{"id":955,"date":"2020-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T07:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/cars2news\/index.php\/2019\/03\/30\/new-heritage-edition-model-is-fords-swan-song-to-the-focus-rs\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T07:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T07:49:28","slug":"new-heritage-edition-model-is-fords-swan-song-to-the-focus-rs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"New Heritage Edition Model Is Ford&#039;s Swan Song To The Focus RS"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Priced from \u00a339,895 ($55,341), and limited to 50 examples, it celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Escort, pays homage to the introduction of the RS brand in Britain, and serves as a swan song to the Focus RS, whose production will end on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>The limited edition hot hatch comes a couple of months after the &#8216;RS Red Edition&#8216;, and sports a Tief (Deep) Orangebody color, grey brake calipers, forged alloy wheels, and contrasting black side mirror casings and rear spoiler on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>In the cabin, the Ford Focus RS Heritage Edition gets part-leather Recaro seats, a sunroof, heated steering wheel, cruise control with speed limiter, and rear privacy windows. The power folding mirrors and rear parking sensors are offered at no extra cost.<\/p>\n<p>All units get a front mechanical Quaife limited-slip differential, for improved traction, and the Mountune upgrade. The latter boosts the output of the 2.3-liter engine from 350PS (345hp) and 470Nm (345lb-ft) of torque, to 375PS (370hp) and 510Nm (376lb-ft) of torque.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The RS brand is hugely important to Ford, and is recognized across the globe, however it has a special place in the hearts of UK Ford fans&#8221;, stated Ford of Britain&#8217;s Chairman and Managing Director, Andy Barratt. &#8220;The latest model is the best RS we&#8217;ve ever produced, so it seems a fitting tribute as we approach its 50th anniversary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/cars2news\/wp-content\/picss\/0114\/jaw05m1rsum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1437\" height=\"995\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/cars2news\/wp-content\/picss\/0114\/2bfqxyhc0yy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priced from \u00a339,895 ($55,341), and limited to 50 examples, it celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Escort, pays homage to the introduction of the RS brand in Britain, and serves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[235,232,234,233,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}