Tanner Foust Takes 350HP Ford Focus RS500 for a Spin Around the 'Ring [Video]
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Tanner Foust Takes 350HP Ford Focus RS500 for a Spin Around the 'Ring [Video]



Professional race car driver and American Top Gear host Tanner Foust was invited to Germany by Ford of Europe to try out the limited production Focus RS500 hot hatch on the famous Nordschleife circuit.

The refresh your memory, the RS500 was a special edition version of the standard Focus RS equipped with a modified 2.5-liter turbocharged inline-five delivering 350-horses to the front wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox. Ford only made 500 examples of the car available to the public and 12 units for its own use.

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