2017 Ford Focus RS Review and In Depth Walk Around

Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Christopher and today we're going to be unlocking the Ford Focus RS. Car enthusiasts take a great look because this car is a beast on the road, has a nice focus packaging, and really puts a lot of Ford's innovations into one vehicle. Performs great on the track and on the road. Let's take a closer look. So let's take a look at the exterior of this vehicle. This one is in the gorgeous frozen white, a four-door hatchback. The side profile is typical RS style with each wheeler kind of being widened to make room for these 19-inch alloy wheels that are exclusive to the RS model. So this is a serious road machine with advanced technology and breakthrough engineering will deliver a phenomenal driving experience. Ford delivers their best race-tuned driving dynamics and stunning performance for both city driving and track driving. So this Focus RS is a little different from your everyday Focus. It's sporting a dramatic exterior design, has a powerful new front end appearance with this bold upper trapezoid grille with this deep splitter in here. Its wide muscular stance emphasized by its lower wings and large outboard openings give it a phenomenal look on the street. With your blue RS badging, you have your active grille shredders, and you have this lower body kit which gives it a nice sporty look. Fog lights are also found below. The rear end design is dominated by this gigantic aerodynamic diffuser which is not all for show. It helps the car achieve better downforce while reducing drag. We do have a nice dual exhaust which sounds great coming out the back of this car when you're using the engine. And let's take a look at this very aggressive rear spoiler on the back. Gives it a nice sporty look. So let's take a look at the power plan because this is really where Ford put all its expertise into this vehicle. This car is super fast, I can't stress that enough. It gives you about 350 horsepower and 350 pounds of torque. It's a twin scroll, single turbo charge, high output 2.3 litre EcoBoost engine. It's truly been modified to this vehicle unique and memorable. You can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in just under five seconds. They also added the Ford Performance all-wheel drive system. It has a dynamic torque vectoring system which is going to deliver excellent cornering speeds and perfect for any driving environment that you're in. It also comes with selectable drive modes like a drift mode, a sport mode, a track mode. So the Focus RS comes with the 19 inch premium painted forged aluminum alloy rims and you have this painted blue in color. These are the Brembo brakes which are upgraded in this RS. It's going to make stopping, you can stop on a dime when you're going at those fast speeds and cornering. The Brembo brakes make it really easy to accelerate and stop. So let's unlock this thing and take a look at the inside. Right away when we move on to the interior we can see there's this charcoal and blue theme all throughout the vehicle. Down below we do have the gorgeous RS kick plates as well. Now let's take a look at the seat. This is a 10-way adjustable Recaro driver's seat. It's in the charcoal black partial leather trimmed seats with the blue accents and the Recaro and RS stitching throughout. You have this nice race inspired steering wheel which is leather wrapped with the RS badging on it and then of course you have your cruise control, radio controls and your vehicle information controls right here. So let's take a look at the steering wheel. We do have this race inspired steering wheel and we have our nice illuminated gauges there right on the front with the vehicle information system where you can do things like your speed, your average fuel consumption, your kilometers to empty. There's a few different screens you can display. It is a six-speed manual transmission. Looks great with the nice blue accents all throughout on the shifter knob here. It does come equipped with the Ford touchscreen with the SYNC 3. I have another video going into detail about the SYNC 3 so feel free to check that one out. I'm not going to get into detail but you can make calls, answer calls all hands-free, use your navigation, radio and there's different SYNC apps that will connect with the SYNC 3. So check out my other video on that one. The heating is all digital and we do have the dual climate controls so you can have each side at a different temperature and it works just like the thermostat in your house where it will automatically adjust the fans to get to the temperature you're after. The front two seats are heated which is here and you have your USB connection and a little storage down below. With this RS package you do get the three added gauges at the top there give it a nice sporty look and you can see things like your oil temperature and your turbo boost. Right beside the shifter there's a couple controls here. One is for your heated steering wheel. The car is also equipped with the auto start stop technology which you can turn on and off. What that does when your vehicle is idling it will shut the car completely down to save on fuel. You also have your VDC control here and this is my favorite part about the vehicle is the different drive modes. You can select different drive modes for whatever driving you want to do and it's far more aggressive than just the regular sport mode that you find on some of the other Ford vehicles which I'm going to get into detail here. So as you can see there are four different drive modes. It starts off in the normal mode. There's also a sport mode, a track mode and a drift mode. Makes it really cool. You can also adjust the shocks independently of the drive mode by pressing the button right on the end of the turn signal stock here. You can adjust the shocks which allows you to do different features with the vehicle. If you want to drive fast on a rough surface you can use the track mode which you see here and select the shocks to normal mode which is going to allow you to accelerate fast on the rough surface or if you want a quiet vehicle but want to use the sport mode you can put it in the sport mode and then select the shocks to the normal mode which quiets down the exhaust and then you can hit the shock button to put the suspension back up. The drift mode is very fun while you're turning. Makes it really cool. You can take turns. I only recommend doing that on the track. At the top it does come with a power operated sunroof. Just going to let a little more light into the car or you can close it up there if you don't like it. So the charcoal suede beam continues throughout with the nice blue stitching. Lots of space in the back for your passengers and you can fit up to two car seats. Here's a nice shot of the rear. You do have your tunnel cover and your carpeted floor mats. Underneath is your spare tire repair kit. It actually doesn't have a spare. It comes with this pump where you can reinflate the tires if they're flat. They're on run flat tires and of course you do have the upgraded Sony sound system right underneath. So thank you very much for watching my video of the Ford Focus RS. My name is Christopher. If you have any questions about this vehicle don't forget to message me or put a question in the comments below. Please like and subscribe to my channel for more videos like this one.