{"id":490963,"date":"2010-03-30T19:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=17790"},"modified":"2010-03-30T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:01:35","slug":"2011-ford-focus-rs500-%e2%80%93-car-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490963","title":{"rendered":"2011 Ford Focus RS500 \u2013 Car News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2011_ford_focus_rs500-car_news\/gallery\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17791\" title=\"2010-Ford-Focus-RS500-21\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-Ford-Focus-RS500-21-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"2010-Ford-Focus-RS500-21\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Behold the last\u2014and best\u2014of the specials based on the current-gen Euro Focus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ford\u2019s parade of fast European Focuses during the last decade has had us both admiring the Blue Oval for building them and admonishing the company for playing keep-away with its home market. We\u2019ve been assured that the days of keeping its hottest hatches out of our hands <a onclick=\"var  x=&quot;.tl(&quot;;s_objectID=&quot;http:\/\/preview.cdnew.hfmus.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2012_ford_focus_global_performance_version_confirmed_2&quot;;return  this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2012_ford_focus_global_performance_version_confirmed-car_news\" >will be over<\/a> once the new world-market <a onclick=\"var  x=&quot;.tl(&quot;;s_objectID=&quot;http:\/\/preview.cdnew.hfmus.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2012_ford_focus-first_look_2&quot;;return  this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2012_ford_focus-first_look\" >Focus<\/a> comes online starting in 2011 as a 2012 model\u2014but Ford had to go and twist the knife one more time. Witness the 2011 Focus RS500, the fiercest Focus ever and what the company considers to be the successor to the legendary Ford Sierra RS500 racer of the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-17790\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2011_ford_focus_rs500-car_news\" >2011 Ford Focus RS500 &#8211; Car News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/2012-ford-focus-global-performance-version-confirmed-car-news\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 2012 Ford Focus Global Performance Version Confirmed &#8211; Car News'>2012 Ford Focus Global Performance Version Confirmed &#8211; Car News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/ford-teases-high-performance-focus-rs500\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Ford Teases High-Performance Focus RS500'>Ford Teases High-Performance Focus RS500<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/us-to-get-2011-euro-focus-2009-ford-f-150-delayed-car-news\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: U.S. to Get 2011 Euro Focus; 2009 Ford F-150 Delayed &#8211; Car News'>U.S. to Get 2011 Euro Focus; 2009 Ford F-150 Delayed &#8211; Car News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the last\u2014and best\u2014of the specials based on the current-gen Euro Focus. Ford\u2019s parade of fast European Focuses during the last decade has had us both admiring the Blue Oval for building them and admonishing the company for playing keep-away with its home market. We\u2019ve been assured that the days of keeping its hottest hatches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}