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Still waiting for the new Ford Focus RS? Join the club. But the hottest Ford hatch at present, the 223bhp Focus ST, is showing no signs of getting any hotter.

This, notorious tuners Brodie Brittain Racing reckons, is where it comes in, with its ST-350. For the princely sum of £9795 over the price of your own ST, BBR will lower its suspension, tweak the geometry, fit a big-bore stainless steel exhaust system and slot in a limited-slip differential.

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wait a couple of years and it'll come down to £18K then it'll be sensible i mean come on a 2 or 3 year old M3- there 's no comparison is there?

 well, yes actually. I can't say spending 30K on a hatchback makes sense, but seeing as i have no desire to own an M3 it opens up a whole host of other, more interesting cars, for similar money.

Well Michael i sold my M3 for £23K it was an 04' with 24Kish on the clock it never went wrong (can't say that about Fords) it had a couple of tyres .I understand that its not cheap to run but the experience was epic- its just that i don't think its a car for the highways it will be rattle the fillings out of your teeth and will probably only be manageable on the road by short shifting so you'd better of with a bog standard ST!.Still want to give someone 10k of your hard earned ?.

Didn't know BMW's never went wrong!!! Reminds me of an ex girlfriends father who didn't want her to get a Golf, saying VW's are ok until they go wrong. He preffered Vauxhalls, I argued all cars are ok until they go wrong.

BBR are well experienced in making many cars perform better through well chosen modifications, they will undoubtedly be offering a warranty with the conversion in a similar way to Cooper Works do on the Mini.

As the previous posts said, it offers M3 performance without the it being a BMW, for a select number of car enthusiast without sheeps brains, this is enough.

300 plus HP through the front wheels?

Do me a favour.

Jon Hardcastle:

sheeps brains

cheers - nearly clicked on the report abuse button!

Who did you think I was abusing?

We've already seen what too much power can do to a car, take the Astra VXR, torque steers like hell. Ford really will have to put a 4WD drivetrain on the car to make it work.

Griffin911:

We've already seen what too much power can do to a car, take the Astra VXR, torque steers like hell. Ford really will have to put a 4WD drivetrain on the car to make it work.

Yep - agreed. And call it a Subaru.

I'll put money on it that someone will buy one and put an even more powerful stereo in it.

It's a chav* car - there's nothing clever about it.

*Chav - Council House And Violent.

scummyplum:

*Chav - Council House And Violent.

 haha! that a great name for chavs, anyhow, new subaru will be an absolute riot, everyone else can learn a thing or two about managing power from them. take brabus for example, the one reason mercedes didn't give the SL 974ft lb of torque is because it cannot be managed.

Jon Hardcastle:

Who did you think I was abusing?

the sheep