It finally happened. Ford has finally seen fit to send hottest of hot hatches to North America. We had to sit on the sidelines and watch our friends in Europe enjoy the previous two Focus RS generations on YouTube, but now we’ll finally get a chance to sample this 315-horsepower, fender-flared (and for the first time), all-wheel-drive forbidden fruit.
Great for us, but you can’t help but wonder if the introduction of the Focus RS presents a bit of a lineup conflict for the suits in Dearborn. Until now, the Mustang and the hottest of the Focus models were never available in the same market. The RS was never sold here and the Mustang was never officially sold in European markets, though they were easily imported under grey import laws. You wouldn’t be going out on a limb in assuming this was done to prevent one from cannibalizing sales from the other, but now, after thinking long and hard, Ford has decided to let the 2016 Focus RS and Mustang compete for buyers.
The situation is further complicated by the inclusion of a 2.3-liter four-cylinder EcoBoost engine to the 2015 Mustang’s option sheet. It’s priced above the V-6 and happens to be the same engine found in the Focus RS. Ford has made the decision to sell both of these amazing cars to us. Now, we have to figure out which one we would put in the garage.
Click past the jump to learn which car is better: the new Focus RS or the Mustang.
2016 Ford Focus RS VS. 2015 Ford Mustang originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 6 February 2015 06:00 EST.
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