Street Muscle Action

It has been years since any compact car has caught my eye, but there’s something about Ford’s new Focus RS500 that’s pretty appealing–like the 350 horsepower coming from the tiny 2.5-liter engine.

Unfortunately, the top of the line RS500 model is a Euro-Spec only model that we won’t get to drool over on these shores. If it helps, you can watch this video of one being upfitted by hand after it comes off Ford’s assembly line. Didn’t realize the flat black paint was actually a vinyl wrap.

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The Goodwood Festival of Speed took place last weekend, and we’re getting some good video footage of some of the great cars that were part of the event.

One that caught our attention is this on-car video of a 1970 Porsche 908/3 taking part in the one-mile hillclimb. It doesn’t sound like the driver is really putting the screws to the old race car (not surprising since only 13 were hand built and they helped Porsche win the 1970 Manufacturers’ Cup), but it’s still fun to watch it negotiate the tight course nonetheless. Hit the jump for the video.

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