North America Will Get The Ford Focus RS; American Automaker’s First Global RS Product ‘Sets A New Benchmark For Driving Exhilaration On The Road And Track’?

The Focus RS is Ford's first global RS creation. With this, carscoops.com noted that North America will get the third generation of Focus RS cars.

According to stuff.co.nz, this 30th car to wear the renowned RS insignia is a high-performance road car equipped with 2.3-litre EcoBoost engine rated in excess of 320 bhp.

"The all-new Focus RS is a serious machine with high-performance technology and innovative engineering that sets a new benchmark for driving exhilaration on the road and track," Raj Nair, Ford Motor Company's group vice president of Global Product Development, said.

Ford Focus RS' powerful engine is teamed with Ford's torque-vectoring AWD system that makes it "almost entirely resistant to understeer."

This hatchback's new all-wheel drive system according to autoexpress.co.uk, "can generate in excess of 1G in cornering force" needed to handle its powerful mechanism.

Citizen.co.za explained the "control unit in the rear drive continuously varies the front/rear and side-to-side torque distribution to suit the driving situation, monitoring inputs from multiple vehicle sensors 100 times per second. A maximum of 70% of the drive torque can be diverted to the rear axle. Up to 100% of the available torque at the rear axle can be sent to each rear wheel. During cornering, the rear drive unit pre-emptively diverts torque to the outer rear wheel based on inputs such as steering wheel angle, lateral acceleration, yaw and speed. This torque transfer has the effect of 'driving' the car into the bend, achieving improved turn-in and stability, and virtually eliminating understeer."

As part of a new line-up of performance Fords, stuff.co.nz noted that the Focus RS offers technologies new to the RS label which includes Ford SYNC connectivity. Ford will start building the Focus RS in Saarlouis, Germany for all markets later this year.

Stay tune to know more of this new hatchback and watch out for its premiere in the 2015 Geneva Motor Show.