Finally talked myself into trading the Fiesta ST for a Focus RS

"Battery Tender Unnecessary" (carac)
01/31/2016 at 22:43 • Filed to: None

Now the hard part, finding a Ford dealer with an open order and then dealing with them. Hoping the local dealer doesn’t know what they’re dealing with yet.

DISCUSSION (21)

macanamera > Battery Tender Unnecessary
01/31/2016 at 22:47

good luck my man

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Battery Tender Unnecessary
01/31/2016 at 22:49

Best of luck! I hope you’ve budgeted an extra $10k on top ;)

Blondude > Battery Tender Unnecessary
01/31/2016 at 22:50

Matt Farah promised me a Focus RS - Million Mile Lexus drift battle when he got his.

Can we get a Focus RS - SLS AMG drift battle too?

Scary__goongala! > Battery Tender Unnecessary
01/31/2016 at 22:56

What color are you interested in getting? I think the picture above is the first time I’ve seen it in another color besides the blue. And that grey looks killer.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Scary__goongala!
01/31/2016 at 23:05

I think that may be a Europe only color.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Battery Tender Unnecessary
01/31/2016 at 23:21

I spy a BFM shirt!

If you can get that grey...itd be perfect

Chasaboo > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/01/2016 at 01:31

You have great taste. The Focus RS is the only interesting car out there currently.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/01/2016 at 04:31

Careful of the i8 effect with the dealer markups...

CALUSA > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
02/01/2016 at 05:14

I found this on their site! Grey should be available then.

Kinja'd!!!

Scary__goongala! > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
02/01/2016 at 08:03

Thats a shame then.

Battery Tender Unnecessary > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
02/01/2016 at 08:44

I paid sticker for my i8, and SVR, I refuse to pay over. The difference between those two was that the bubble burst on the i8 when they announced they were making it a mass production vehicle and I got out before prices crashed (you can get one for more than $20k off INVOICE right now) rather than a limited halo car, something they had probably planned all along but strung dealers and customers along making them believe otherwise. So far Jag-LandRover is sticking to making the SVR super-limited, each dealer still only gets 1 allocated a year. I got my dealer’s 2015, someone else got their 2016, they aren’t getting a 2017 until the end of this year. We’ll see how the RS shakes out. If I wasn’t able to get one for sticker in the first round, I’d wait to be second or third. Being first isn’t worth being even more underwater financially than usual with a car.

Battery Tender Unnecessary > Scary__goongala!
02/01/2016 at 08:53

It’s stealth grey and I love it, its a lot like a darker “Battleship Grey” you can get on the Audi RS’s. It’s available in the US. Only 4 colors. White, Black, Grey, and Blue.

Battery Tender Unnecessary > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
02/01/2016 at 08:54

I don’t have to be first, that’s not worth a markup to me. But we’ll see how many dealer are getting.

Scary__goongala! > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/01/2016 at 09:24

Sweet. If Ford was giving RS’s away to poor college students like myself, I’d for sure take it in grey.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/01/2016 at 11:32

Yeah, I’ve done the math and it’s financially attainable for me... I still want to drive one before I commit, as it will have to be my daily (when not riding the motorcycle) and one of the reasons I got the FiST instead of the FoST was daily livability in traffic... but I suspect these are gonna get huge dealer markup the first year, I’m probably not gonna be able to swing it ‘till next year.

Master Cylinder > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/01/2016 at 12:02

Awesome. Hope you can get one soon, I’d love to see an actual review by an owner. I know the autojournos are creaming themselves over it but I always take those reviews with more than a few grains of salt.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/01/2016 at 12:04

3 ordered here in Franklin (Williamson county) and I don’t think they raked them over the coals on dealer markup.

Brian Silvestro > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/01/2016 at 21:18

Ken Block thinks otherwise:

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Saracen > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/02/2016 at 14:12

DO IT!

Great color choice! Stealth gray looks amazing!

Saracen > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/02/2016 at 14:13

You mean Nardo Gray. I love Nardo. but for most Audis it’s a $3k exclusive order option.

m2m, apex detective > Battery Tender Unnecessary
02/12/2016 at 09:55

Foreboding, wasn’t it? ;)