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Top Gear - Focus RS vs. Merc A45 vs. VW Golf R vs. Honda Civic Type R

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Focus RS does battle with Merc A45, VW Golf R and Honda's Civic Type R

http://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/ford-focus-rs-vs-rivals

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"While the Golf R still has flashes of magic in its bones and can smoothe the edges off the real world better than the other three, it’s too staid in the face of more exotic competition. The same can’t be said of the flamboyant Civic, but its main contribution on this test was to highlight the shortcomings of front-wheel drive. The recent changes have done the Mercedes a world of good, it’s still the most unhinged hatch in the world and it’s learned not to take itself too seriously. But despite the willy-waving rear wing, double diffuser and silly exhaust (kept permanently in its shouty setting, of course), it still lacks a layer of interactivity at and beyond the limit – space that the Focus RS now officially owns. The tectonic plates are shifting alright, and it’s the RS that’s moving them." -TG
 


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