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Ford Focus Rs Vs Nissan Gt-r
#1


Focus better on the street
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#2
Awesome vid! And if Ford has any brains (and wants to put a new dent in the Corolla/Civic juggernaughts like they did with the 1st gen Focus), they will release this car in North America, with no excuses, and no watering down.
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#3
nice vid....

I wonder which would be more fun to drive along our mostly smooth roads....
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#4
Great video . The man is soo right , at least for me is more important how much fun I have while driving fast than just driving very fast . Plus , I find the GTR ugly compared to the Focus , plus I don't have the money for it anyway :P
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#5
Great video. As is often said, it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than it is to drive fast car slow. Not that the RS is slow mind you...

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#6
Man this focus is gonna be killing people during lapping days.
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#7
I dunno, I'm so torn. The Focus RS is well, the Focus RS. Love it. The GT-R? It's Godzilla, finally landed in N.A.

I can has both?
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NOS2Go4Me,May 6 2009, 08:54 AM Wrote:I dunno, I'm so torn. The Focus RS is well, the Focus RS. Love it. The GT-R? It's Godzilla, finally landed in N.A.

I can has both?
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What feels better going 140Km/h in your Escape , or going 140Km/h in your old Focus? Besides the Focus RS is probably 3/4 the price of the GTR, and easy to drive in regular, everyday street racing...I mean driving. No street racing allowed.
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NOS2Go4Me,May 6 2009, 07:54 AM Wrote:I dunno, I'm so torn. The Focus RS is well, the Focus RS. Love it. The GT-R? It's Godzilla, finally landed in N.A.

I can has both?
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Yeah but remember what Godzilla did to Tokyo? :ph34r:

I have a feeling that a GT-R would do the exact same thing on the open roads here, meaning it's mainly a track beast :(

The RS could still fit in the "small cars only" spaces in downtown T.O. while being tossable. Makes it easier to choose, depending on your circumstances.

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#10
The Focus is much more of a practical fast car for everyday life.
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#11
the RS need AWD!!! all those power to front wheel = torque steering and understeer :P
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#12
Have you driven it no I don't think so, so how the hell would you know
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#13
Yeah, the RS is a much more "sensible" car, if sensible cars can have 300HP+. :)
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ZX3_2NV,May 11 2009, 12:17 PM Wrote:Have you driven it no I don't think so, so how the hell would you know
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its a turbocharged FWD car, its an accurate assumption.
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Flofocus,May 11 2009, 11:36 AM Wrote:
ZX3_2NV,May 11 2009, 12:17 PM Wrote:Have you driven it no I don't think so, so how the hell would you know
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its a turbocharged FWD car, its an accurate assumption.
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According to the video the new trick diff means power to the ground without the aforementioned problems
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I doubt its completely taken care of.
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Flofocus,May 11 2009, 12:05 PM Wrote:I doubt its completely taken care of.
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LOL - love to find out for myself ... but in any event supposedly enough to make AWD redundant for street driving
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