EVO UK – Issue 344 April 2026 – EVO UK

These days the Audi is far more than just a great engine strapped to a so-so chassis, but it still doesn’t hold the title of our favourite five- pot hatch. That accolade goes to the second-generation Ford Focus RS launched in 2009, with a highly tuned five-cylinder powering the front wheels alone.

Listen closely and Ford’s ‘five’ spoke with a Swedish accent, since the engine used by both the RS and the Mk2 Focus ST was based on a 2.5-litre Volvo-derived unit. But Ford put its own work into the RS engine, with stronger connecting rods, new pistons, new camshafts, and a larger Borg-Warner turbo fed through a bigger intercooler and redesigned intake. No Volvo of the time matched the RS’s 300bhp or 324lb ft, and no prancing moose handled like the RS did either.

Ford’s engineers pulled a blinder in harnessing one of the brawniest outputs we’d yet seen from a hot hatchback. There was some clever work at play to ensure the RS didn’t simply turn its front tyres into two steaming black stripes on the asphalt or have you straining each arm to prevent it torque-steering between the hedges. There was a Quaife limited-slip differential for a start – a development of that in the previous RS, with friendlier lock-up characteristics to mitigate the old car’s verge-hunting – but significant too was the use of what Ford called RevoKnuckle front suspension.

This was Ford’s version of a system we’re now quite familiar with, a MacPherson strut where the steering axis is separated from the movement of the spring and damper, making the steering less susceptible to changes in suspension geometry.

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