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Originally Posted by Steffo
Those Fords don't come here perfect, that's the thing. The new Focus XR5 does, I wouldn't touch that. However the point wouldn't be FPV modding a Focus ST, it would be making their own version. Stuff what Team RS has done, it would be Team FPV's car. And seeing how they can make the F6 Typhoon that can run with the likes of the V10 M5, and the same lot of people with a different name to the company made the T3 TE50 which was faster around corners then the old E39 M5, I'd love to see what they could do with a Focus. Plus it would nothing but help local industry, more locally made cars, more local work.
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This is the problem with the argument though. It's simply unfeasible, unproductive and a waste of time to expect FPV to make something better than a Team RS produced ST or RS, because let's face it, if people wanted something less than or equal to an XR5, they'd buy one.
For FPv to produce a BETTER, faster or more powerful version is like asking Europe to import a handful of Falcons and make a better Typhoon or GT. It's simply a stupid idea given the market size - sure it's possible technically.
FPV would never be able to justify spending - from scratch - the money on a Focus Zetec to convert it into a ball tearer when Team RS will do thousands of hours on a product that would have such a huge advantage in being developed for a much bigger worldwide market and hence a much bigger budget. They'd have to produce bodykits, engines, you name it.
Understand what people are alluding to, as far as I see it it's a very very unfeasbile idea. Makes no business sense at all. Europe would never make their own go fast Falcons just like it wouldn't make sense doing the reverse here for Focus.
Just because FPV do it to Falcons, doesn't mean it's the same on Focus given that it's already done to Focus elsewhere. Why would any company spend twice as much to achieve more or less the same thing? Not even Telstra is that stupid.
As for ST170 being slowest in its class, I for one would not have bought an Astra Turbo if it was 10% cheaper. The Focus was the best handling car in its class and not everyone gives a toss about straight line speed! For the $27,000 I spent on a new Focus Zetec 5 years ago I could have bought a sweet 185kw 5.0L EL XR8 and modded it and kept funds for the extra fuel. NO THANKS. The XR8 didn't have leather, 4 airbags, DSC, great European style, independent suspension or any class. 127kw wasn't enough to drag, but most people who buy hatches aren't interested in that.