300hp Ford Focus RS - will it come to New Zealand?

Over 1000 orders have been placed in the UK for the 300hp Ford Focus RS. It's serious competition to the WRX STI and Evo X, but will it come here?

New Zealand already gets the Focus XR5 (we reviewed it here), and it's a damn good car. It's essentially a rebadged Focus ST from the UK, so there's no reason Ford couldn't do the same and bring the RS to New Zealand. With the support that the Rally New Zealand gets, it would provide a viable alternative to the Japanese options from Subaru and Mitsubishi.

The new model marks a welcome return for the Rallye Sport badge which has played such an important role in Ford’s rich motorsport heritage. This will be the second Focus model to carry the RS mantle since 2002 and heralds another chapter in an automotive story which began with the iconic Ford Escort RS1600 in 1970...which is before most of us were born.