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Did you see Top Gear this evening?

If so what do you make of the new Focus ST? (Apart from the hideous colour!)

new focus is crap.



new focus ST, i'd be quite happy to have one parked on my drive.

New Focus ST is a corking car.

Apparantely it's lapping the Nurburgring quicker than the Focus RS!

Abit on the heavy side though at 1350 kg +

I will pass judgement when the new Type R arrives next year because thats meant to be abit special.

If it does what the current Type R did in 2001 and kicks every other competitor into the weeds and pisses on them then i'll be happy.

Colour is an aquired taste though...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/ford_focus_st_01.jpg

But where do the kids get in and sit ? Ahem....I'll get me coat !

NMH

Now that is an awesome colour!

Ralphy,were you on Later with Jools Holland on Friday night?

Another Car to perhaps consider for myself. Wouldn't get orange though. Apparently they also do it in blue. Ralphy, when is the new type r out? Is it going to be worth waiting for then?

Clarkson kept calling it the Focus Asbo as well  :soapy tit wank:

"You can take the car out of Essex......"

New Type R comes out late 2006/early 2007

It is meant to be something very special

Because of Honda's believe that turbocharging is unnecessary the new Civic Type R will be a normally aspirated, variable valved timed screamer with roughly 220 bhp and very low weight compared to it's competitors.

Expect 0-60 mph in low 6 seconds maybe high 5's.

It will handle superb too and probally have the same amazing gearbox as the current Type R.

:?

Any pics?

talking of top gear did anyone see the Ascari the other week.

is made in Banbury and was 5th fastest round the track.

My brother in-law was one of the designers on that car 8)

Haven't finished designing it yet but there are some ideas floating around.

I'll dig some out for you.

I like the look of that Focus ST .. and the colour .. how much?

£17,500

They start from approx £18k

This is a media pic of what they think the new Type R may look like

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/newtyper.jpg

how much is Type R?

Not too sure about that spoiler. Otherwise looks quite smart.

The current Type R what i have has just gone out of production and was £16,700

The new one won't be on sale until late 2006/early 2007

That looks horrible. Especially the exhaust. But, what do i know about cars, i drive a micra :roll:

Like i said, just a media photoshopped picture.

The new standard Civic looks lovelly so the Type R will be gorgeous.

anyway more inportantly my brother in-law designed this

http://www.ascari.net/fotos/KZ1-3.jpg

Now that is ace^^^^^ :P

This is the new standard civic

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/civic_g8_2.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/inside.jpg

Hope that's just an artists impression Ralphy, don't like the look of it at all.

My Mondeo estate is sexier  :?

http://img91.exs.cx/img91/195/newcivic.jpg

that civic looks horrid compared to what is available now.

Seen that article before Compo, most of it is media hype and speculation.

I doubt they'll put a 2.4 litre lump in it, more likely to be another very highly tuned 2 litre with around 220 bhp like the DC5 Integra Type R.

Your anti Honda though  :wink:

I think the new type R will be awesome, honda know that market now days

i like the interior of the Type R.

my Bro-inlaw is hoping to build his own type of supercar next year.
Apparently he told me it is going to be based on the two seater Atom but be a hard top etc.

looking at the designs he has done already it's gonna be an awsum car

 :wink:

I speak to alot of Honda UK employees on car forums and they have all said it will blow the competition away.

I will judge that when i see it.

My order is poised and ready.

Ariel Atom has a Type R engine  :soapy tit wank:

Weighes about 400 kg so performance is absolutely mental

0-60 in 3 secs and 0-100 in 7 secs!

he said the one he is designing etc will be a hard top.
Cost on the road will be £40k ish.

The guy who did all the suspension for the Ascari is on board to help aswell.
it sounds ace.

Just saw my first new Civic when out for lunch, hadn't realised it was already available in normal spec.  Quirky looking, better than the old one IMHO, it's naturally agressive so I'd imagine the new Type R will be tidy, looked less like a hand held vacuum cleaner than the old one.

good quote

but i think the new Type R will be a stormer.

Like Ash said they know there market so will no way mess it up.

They knew the market in 2001 too, blew the competition away. Where everyone else was putting 150-170 bhp engines in their very hottest hatches, Honda came along with a lightweight hatch with 200 bhp!

The type R might be great engine wise, but the normal civic, which old people buy, is distinctly average compared to the opposition like the MK I focus IMHO.  Not too keen on the looks of the civic, and the new focus seems a bit mundane and safe compared to the old one too.  Big fan of the styling of the new golf and leon though

It's got to be Ford for me.  Honda are a bit too clever and frankly nerdish, whereas if you've got a Ford ST you've got balls and you're probably wearing a pair of designer jeans.  I'd kill for an ST, might even go for it in Orange too, though it'd clash with my STFC scarf...

If your driving a Focus ST your probally called Gary and from Chelmsford Walrus :wink:

As opposed to Herbert from Cambridge for a Type R driver?  :P

auto express generally over-exagerate. new civic looks pretty cool, theres one bowling around swindon, seen it a couple of times. always been a fan of hondas, would give my right nut for a type R, the EK was my favourite one tho...

http://www.civictyper.de/bilder/modelle_ek9/CTR_EK9_1997_007.jpg

http://www.invoauto.co.uk/images/cars/srr-ek.jpg

http://www.c-west.co.jp/i/img/matiuke/240_320/sh900i_ek9.jpg

http://www.lvracingscene.com/forums/uploads/post-27-1112437240.jpg

http://www.lvracingscene.com/forums/uploads/post-27-1112439077.jpg


*dribbles*

the focus ST looks lush, i'd kill for a car like that.

I'm saving up for one of these little beasts next year  8)  I think they are pretty foxy really.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c258/Sadie09/mini_coopers_230.jpg

Not too keen on the front and interior of the civic. Maybe the Type R will be more 'meatier' looks wise.

i'd kill myself for a cooper s.

Bit drastic  :shock:  its a ladies car anyhow.

minis are shite, FACT. unless they're pre-2000 ones...

:evil:  Mini's are sexy. That colour blue is loverly and red looks good. They are a bit of a womans car but I think sonic would still look kewl in one  :D

yea, i agree, mini's are ace. http://zveno.ru/photo/catalog/Rover/Mini/MINI.jpg


BMINIW's aint at all, fucking shite car. its a fucking german car for fucks sake!

i wouldn't fit in an old mini cooper, otherwise i'd probably try and get my hands on one....

Now That I'm known as vicky pollard I think should have one of these.........

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c258/Sadie09/chavmobile.jpg

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  8)

Sonic! The Mini is up there with the Audi TT and new VW Beetle for gayness  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Sade, how the fuck will you insure a Mini Cooper S ?!

Your 17 and the Cooper S is insurance group 14

This will be my next car in a year or so if i don't like the new Type R...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Ralphy-Boy/evo.jpg

sonic mate, i fit in one. i have mates bigger than me (both height and width!) that have or have had minis and fitted in ok. worst comes to the worst, seat brackets are available that shift the seat 3inches back. you lose the availability of anyone older than 5yrs old on the backseat behind the driver, but they were never comfortable in the back anyways!!!

(ralphy, hopefully in a less bent colour tho :P)


i do quite like the evos. less of a ned's car, unlike the scooby :( (i bloody love the scooby, but the bastards have made em all into barrywagons.

Scooby has a chav image now i agree which is a damm shame cos their a very able car.

I love the Evo so much

Want an FQ340

Ralphy, i'll be having one of them aswell i think, or maybe this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/compo71/exterior_impreza_sti.jpg

STI 9

Nice  8)

Ohright  :shock:

I'll have to get one of these babys instead then won't I. I know this is your favourite type of car really Ralphus  :P

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c258/Sadie09/urbanitepinksaxo5.jpg

No you bloody won't.

Am too  :D  I am getting pink neons too. I'll come and pick you up and we can go cruising hows about that.

cant wait to see that, i'll bring me camera along   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Blimey O'Reilly, 5 pages! I don't really like the new Focus but the ST is growing on me daily! You were right about the Type R blowing away its competitors previously Ralphy, my current ST only has 170 BHP and is 0-60 in just under 8 seconds. Your type R would murder it!

Think the new ST may take some beating, even with the bold colour range!

Type R is well matched in performance to the Focus RS.

Focus RS has 15 more horsepower but is heavier.

Both do 0-60 in 6.4 secs

Both do 0-60 in 16 secs

New Focus ST is heavier than both but has 217 bhp so should be even with the two of them.

At least Ford have caught up with rivals!  8)

Yep it has... for now  :twisted:

I was just reading on a Focus Forum I sometimes read about a guy that has both a Focus RS and a Civic Type R (lucky chap) and he states that the RS pisses all over the Type R. Obviously he is biast but what do you make of that?

Well it's a matter of opinion.

The RS was £4k more for a start, is 4 wheel drive and turbocharged.

The Type R is front wheel drive and normally aspirated.

Both offer a different sort of drive but performance wise there is nothing in it.

Both lap various circuits in the same time and both do straight line drag races the same.

In the winter, the Focus RS would be the favoured choice cos of 4 wheel drive BUT that differential is very annoying i'm told and cuts in too much.

Tiff Needell prefers the Type R and thats good enough for me.

I'm loving that scooby.  :)