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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Steve Brookman on 12 January 2012, 19:58:49
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Hello all,
My brother is having a mid life crisis and is changing his Ford Sierra for a Focus ST225.
Anybody ever owned one?
Cheers Steve
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He will be grinning from ear to ear when he plants the loud pedal in 2nd... :y
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I think my views of Focus are well known. But I will make exception for ST, although never had the chance to drive one. That amount of power in a fairly light small family car and a chassis thats inherently shite has got to be a massive hoot :y
Bit like beemers, can't stand them, whould never even consider one. Except an M.
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my #1 advisor
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/ford/focus-st-2005/ (http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/ford/focus-st-2005/)
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Aaah, the ST. Brings back memories. Lovely sound, really torquey engine and great handling. Beware the fuel costs though. Many people buy just to sell it on few months later because they can't afford the fuel bills. Drinks petrol like a fish, no a whale really. I was regularly seeing 15mpg and 22mpg on an exceptionally good day. Maybe hijack a Shell tanker before buying a ST. ;D
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I had one for a month :y
Fun :D
Fuel Consumption >:(
Also had a Mondy with the same engine and that was much much better managing to average 31 which is what the official figure is.
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weve just bought a new focus and its pretty rapid for a diesel so i would imagine the st must have the grin factor
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Owned an ST for a brief time, the engine noise is absolutely to die for being a 5 cylinder Volvo engine, great power, terrible fuel cost though, although it was slightly better than my Cooper S Works :o
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Thanks!
I'll have to borrow it!
Steve
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Just an update-brother bought an ST2 in white.
Goes like a rocket and what a sound!
Steve
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Got a chance to throw a Focus RS round an industrial estate last sunday........tbh, too much in something that small.... but was fun when not having to worry about rules ;D
Mind you, he's had it 6 months, bought from main dealer with 3k on the clock, & it's been back 6 times for EMS errors ::)
Oh well, that'll teach him ;)
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Does a third hand come out of the dashboard and brace the steering wheel when you floor it?
Did see a Westfield with that 5 pot Turbo engine in once, mated to an Elite sequential gearbox. I think that'd be a much better use for it. :-*
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Does a third hand come out of the dashboard and brace the steering wheel when you floor it?
Did see a Westfield with that 5 pot Turbo engine in once, mated to an Elite sequential gearbox. I think that'd be a much better use for it. :-*
I wondered where you were going with that for a minute..... ::)
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Torque steer rules ok ;)
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LOL at this thread, the 5 pots in the volvos are the ones to go for IME unless its an RS, having said that though, i left an RS on a dual carriageway in the t5 even when it was standard ;)
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LOL at this thread, the 5 pots in the volvos are the ones to go for IME unless its an RS, having said that though, i left an RS on a dual carriageway in the t5 even when it was standard ;)
You leave most things standing in a T5, friend has an ex-plod motorway patrol 850 T5 estate (with 12, yes 12, fuse boxes!!), and leaves me for dust often......even from 90 70mph :(
And yes, that was also before he "got involved"...... I shudder to think what it'll do now it's over 380bhp
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Does a third hand come out of the dashboard and brace the steering wheel when you floor it?
TS is not that bad on a ST. Infact I had a Mountune upgrade on mine and it still handled pretty well unless the road surface was very poor. Then it was a handful.
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LOL at this thread, the 5 pots in the volvos are the ones to go for IME unless its an RS, having said that though, i left an RS on a dual carriageway in the t5 even when it was standard ;)
You leave most things standing in a T5, friend has an ex-plod motorway patrol 850 T5 estate (with 12, yes 12, fuse boxes!!), and leaves me for dust often......even from 90 70mph :(
And yes, that was also before he "got involved"...... I shudder to think what it'll do now it's over 380bhp
lol theres a man with an 850 with atleast 400bhp, i had a facelift s60 t5, still have - in bits mind and that was 350bhp with just a map :P
he tried to take the polestar c30 out at castle combe but they said it took them 4 years to build and the bloke with the 400bhp 850-it took him 12 years to build and is his daily driver- hes currently fitting the 6 speed box from my t5 lol!!!
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Must admit, i like what the police do to the 850, if i could find one & put a proper hi spec interior back in it i probably would 8)
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the 2.4 s60 t5 is a better engine, R owners swap the 2.5 engine "similar" to the focus 2.5 for the t5 lump ;)