{"id":519310,"date":"2010-04-07T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=42866"},"modified":"2010-04-07T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:45:33","slug":"ford-focus-rs500-gone-in-43200-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519310","title":{"rendered":"Ford Focus RS500: Gone In 43,200 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/ford-focus-rs500-gone-in-43200-seconds\/focusrs500_2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FocusRS500_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FocusRS500_2\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42870\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You snooze, you lose: remember the Ford Focus RS500 we told you about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/ford-focus-rs500-damn-you-europe\/\">here<\/a>?  The 345 horsepower, matte and gloss black, limited edition uber Focus RS that Ford deemed us &#8216;Mericans unworthy of buying?  Sorry to tell you, but you&#8217;ve missed your opportunity to buy one for your summer place in Berlin.  <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-42866\"><\/span>The entire production run of 500 units sold out in twelve hours, despite the car&#8217;s yet-to-be-published price.  Demand was so strong that more than 500 orders were received from the UK alone, so Ford&#8217;s next challenge will be allocation by country.<\/p>\n<p>If you really need one, there&#8217;s still hope: if Ford&#8217;s announced price winds up being higher than buyers are willing to pay, you could always buy someone&#8217;s spot in the order queue.  It&#8217;s only money, after all, and you can&#8217;t drive a 401k, now can you?  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dfyQyg3WDAGamvjSpuyY-KV9DKo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dfyQyg3WDAGamvjSpuyY-KV9DKo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dfyQyg3WDAGamvjSpuyY-KV9DKo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dfyQyg3WDAGamvjSpuyY-KV9DKo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You snooze, you lose: remember the Ford Focus RS500 we told you about here? The 345 horsepower, matte and gloss black, limited edition uber Focus RS that Ford deemed us &#8216;Mericans unworthy of buying? Sorry to tell you, but you&#8217;ve missed your opportunity to buy one for your summer place in Berlin. The entire production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519310","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\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}