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Ford considers bringing 305-hp Focus to U.S. market

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Ford may combine a 300-plus-hp Focus to its U.S. lineup.

The Focus RS, a three-door hatchback sold in Europe, is powered close by a turbocharged 2.5-liter five-cylinder Volvo motor with 305 hp.

Hermann Salenbauch, Ford Motor Co."s chairman of the board of advanced outcome beginning and worldwide performance, says the colony to vend the Focus RS here desire depend on answer from U.S. automobile enthusiasts, such as Focus SVT owners.

Ford is looking representing "feedback from the media and customers," he says. "How much do they it? Is it genuinely what they want? We are comely safe that it is."

The restyled, Europe-engineered 2011 Focus goes on selling here in late 2010, replacing the contemporary model. The automobile desire be assembled in North America. The RS duplication representing the United States would be based on that platform, Salenbauch says. He did not conditions when it would arrive.

The three-door Focus SVT, a high-performance model, was discontinued during the 2004 duplication year. It had a $19,205 sticker, including shipping. Salenbauch says an RS duplication would be priced higher.

British magazine AutoCar published a gushing examine of the Focus RS: "Remortgage the house, burgle a bank, vend yourself, vend your own grandmother, fair do whatever it takes to place an RS on your drive."

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