1997 Porsche Ruf CTR2 Sport for Sale
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Viva Los Hoons! Jalopnik Reader Buys Mexican Focus RS [Found On EBay]
Remember the lime green 2010 Ford Focus RS for sale in Mexico? One of our readers bought it and will be importing it to the US. To say we’re jealous would be like saying the sun’s warm. Complete story below.
Our new best friend who should totally let us go for a drive when he gets the car legalized wishes to remain anonymous, but he was kind enough to provide full details about how he was able to purchase a not-for-US Import Focus RS and exactly what kind of car lunatic he is:
I worked for 15 years as an automotive engineer in vehicle electronics, used to work in Auburn Hills, am a long time Jalopnik, Lifehacker, and Gizmodo reader, and collect cars. I drive about 100 miles each day to and from work, in horrible Chicago traffic, so I spend a lot of time with my cars. All the cars are fully restored or in like new condition. I have a 1964 Lincoln Continental (with suicide doors), a 1967 Pontiac Firebird 400 (Restomod with a blown 455), a 1964 MINI Cooper S, a 1968 Mercedes Benz 280SL convertible (the car my grandfather taught me to drive in and that he used to take down to Mexico on road trips), a 1996 Twin turbo Porsche 993, a 2000 Mercedes Benz ML55 (the world’s fastest minivan), a 2002 MINI Cooper S (had to get the modern update of the MINI), a 2005 Lotus Exige S2, and now the 2010 Ford Focus RS Mk2. There is no rhyme or reason to the cars I collect, except that they are or were at the time cars that stood out from the crowd for their superlative engineering, design, and performance. In this regard I think that the Focus RS fits in perfectly to the rest of the collection. I keep them all in a big old warehouse that I purchased and restored a number of years ago in Chicago. It was an old paint factory from the 1920’s and is all exposed brick and huge timber beams.
I had been reading and admiring the buzz about the upcoming release of the Focus RS Mk2 in the magazines last summer, and while in Italy last year I saw one in the lime green livery. Although it is arguably an atrocious color, there was something about the blunt power of the car that made me think the gaudy green was appropriate, and actually quite beautiful. After coming home I went about looking into importing one to the US, but finally the logistics and cost led me to abandon the effort. Then in May I saw a Jalopnik post about a a Euro Spec Focus RS with manufacturer plates spotted in Royal Oak, MI, near to where I used to live. This got my hopes up that the RS was coming to American soil.
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