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Focus RS Horsepower Rating Accidentally Leaked by Ford Ireland!!!

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#1 · (Edited)


"As for power, a specially tuned 2.3-litre EcoBoost petrol engine delivers 350 PS"

Accidentally on purpose? Regardless, earlier today Ford.ie publicly released the horsepower figure for the 2017 Focus RS, much to the chagrin of Ford US.

The Official Ford Ireland site was shutdown earlier this evening, I suspect Ford U.S. became involved and shut down the domain in order to investigate if Ford.ie had any other confidential information blatantly displayed. However, an hour later the site went back up and the image was not taken down.

Was this legitimately an accident or a brutally crafty way to generate buzz?

Edit: The image was originally located at http://www.ford.ie/AboutFord/GenevaMotorshow2015, but that link is now redirecting here http://www.ford.ie/AboutFord/Overview
 
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#2 ·
Glad to see the number confirmed after all the reports of its power expectations, one of them being the below:

We have additional details about the upcoming 2016 Focus RS from another trusted source, including power output, so let's start with that. With the Mustang GT's V8 holding down a 435 hp spot at the top of the Ford performance pecking order (for now, until the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 emerges), the Focus RS is free to turn up the horsepower wick. Since the 2.3-liter Ecoboost is easily capable of more than its 310 hp output in the Mustang, which was dictated more by fuel economy concerns than anything else, the RS is free to pump out between 325 and 350 hp. The higher figure is more likely. This is because as a low-volume, niche product that doesn't compete with the Mustang GT, there's no reason to hold the Focus RS back.
 
#3 · (Edited)
that last line in elliots quote is an important one to factor in:

This is because as a low-volume, niche product that doesn't compete with the Mustang GT, there's no reason to hold the Focus RS back.

combine the leaked power of 345HP with the fact it'll have an all-wheel-drive and dynamic torque vectoring control system, this works out to be quite the recipe
 
#5 ·
It sounds to me that this was more of a mistake than a purposeful planting of information. Ford Ireland? That just doesn't seem likely to me. If it was, then man o man have they got good at this. I'll be interested to know how that power rating translates into top speed and acceleration once full specs are out there.
 
#12 ·
They did, its claimed it was a typo. someone meant to write more then 310 PS but instead wrote 350 PS!

HA, mistake my arse, 1 and 5 are quite distinct, not to mention the more than!

Fords deal is publicity, what you thought they were going to let the Civic type R continue to dominate the headlines?

Civic wins nurburgring, Civic has 306 bhp... Ford says thanks for coming out 350 PS!!! Focus RS and CTR are competing for the same pool of dollars and CTR will beat the RS to market. Ford needs to keep potential CTR buyers out of Honda show rooms, they want people to wait for the RS, how, tell them it makes bonkers numbers... and drifts!!!

A broken dome is a mistake, this is forgetting one deliberately ;)
 
#16 ·
Well I am more convinced its a big Ford publicity conspiracy now since there was another "mistake" that happened on the Ford Spain site. That site said that the Focus RS would have horsepower of 345. I just don't believe that after making the mistake once, another website would make the same mistake so quickly.

http://www.leftlanenews.com/ford-focus-rs-to-arrive-with-345-hp.html
 
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