<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/aftermarket/" rel="tag">Aftermarket</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag">Performance</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/euro/" rel="tag">Europe</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hatchbacks/" rel="tag">Hatchback</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/ford/" rel="tag">Ford</a></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loderleader.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><small>Loder1899 Focus RS - click above image for hi-res gallery</small></em></strong></div>
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Here at the Autoblog, we get accused of many things. From somehow making a <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/shock-ford-showcases-modded-mustangs-at-sema/">living off of</a> the Ford Mustang to <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/report-corvette-zr1-matches-nissan-gt-r-around-nurburgring-in/">dating other male journalists</a> to "FAIL!" we've heard it all. In fact, we hear the latter a lot. One that particularly sticks in our collective craw is the accusation that we somehow <em>prefer</em> American aftermarket tuners to foreign ones. So untrue. It's really a matter of access, as in all the American tuners live here in America (where we do) and they let us drive their cars around. It's hard to do that when a PR budget is tiny and the car's in Dusseldorf. Also, sometimes, things are lost in translation -- we'll get to that later.<br />
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Case in point - here's a car we'd give canines and molars to drive - <em>in stock form</em>. Meet the Loder1899 Ford Focus RS. The oddly named German tuner took Ford's 300 horsepower hottie Focus and, to quote Emeril, kicked it up a notch by BAMMING the output to 345 hp. Which is exactly as much horsepower as the Porsche 928 was making in 1995, the last year of its run. And the Porsche had a 5.4-liter V8. <br />
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The Loder1899 Focus RS has but five cylinders, less than half the porker's displacement (a scant 2.5-liters and one humdinger of a turbocharger). However, they've added a Y-pipe for greater growling, a new air filter for better breathing and dropped the ride height by 35 mm (a bit more than an inch). The tires are filled with nitrogen and we love the wheels, too. Plus, they left the Insanity Green or whatever that color's called. Sounds and looks like this side of fantastic to us.<br />
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Oh, we promised you more the lost in translation part later on. Well, while Loder1899 has a whole bunch of information on their hopped up Ford Focus RS on their website, it's all in German. But we're living in 2009 baby - no problemo. Just run that stuff through Google's translator, right? Not exactly... world's first NSFW press release <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/">after the jump</a>!<br />
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<div class="postgallery"><p><strong>Gallery: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/">Loder1899 Ford Focus RS</a></strong></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder00_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder10_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder20_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder30_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder40_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></div><br />
[Souce: <a href="http://www.loder1899.de/de/presse1315.html">Loder1899</a> via <a href="http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/244201/tuned_ford_focus_rs.html">EVO</a>]<p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Loder1899 heats up Ford's already cookin' Focus RS</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/">Loder1899 heats up Ford's already cookin' Focus RS</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblog</a> on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:29:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19213099/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><small>Loder1899 Focus RS - click above image for hi-res gallery</small></em></strong></div>
<br />
Here at the Autoblog, we get accused of many things. From somehow making a <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/shock-ford-showcases-modded-mustangs-at-sema/">living off of</a> the Ford Mustang to <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/report-corvette-zr1-matches-nissan-gt-r-around-nurburgring-in/">dating other male journalists</a> to "FAIL!" we've heard it all. In fact, we hear the latter a lot. One that particularly sticks in our collective craw is the accusation that we somehow <em>prefer</em> American aftermarket tuners to foreign ones. So untrue. It's really a matter of access, as in all the American tuners live here in America (where we do) and they let us drive their cars around. It's hard to do that when a PR budget is tiny and the car's in Dusseldorf. Also, sometimes, things are lost in translation -- we'll get to that later.<br />
<br />
Case in point - here's a car we'd give canines and molars to drive - <em>in stock form</em>. Meet the Loder1899 Ford Focus RS. The oddly named German tuner took Ford's 300 horsepower hottie Focus and, to quote Emeril, kicked it up a notch by BAMMING the output to 345 hp. Which is exactly as much horsepower as the Porsche 928 was making in 1995, the last year of its run. And the Porsche had a 5.4-liter V8. <br />
<br />
The Loder1899 Focus RS has but five cylinders, less than half the porker's displacement (a scant 2.5-liters and one humdinger of a turbocharger). However, they've added a Y-pipe for greater growling, a new air filter for better breathing and dropped the ride height by 35 mm (a bit more than an inch). The tires are filled with nitrogen and we love the wheels, too. Plus, they left the Insanity Green or whatever that color's called. Sounds and looks like this side of fantastic to us.<br />
<br />
Oh, we promised you more the lost in translation part later on. Well, while Loder1899 has a whole bunch of information on their hopped up Ford Focus RS on their website, it's all in German. But we're living in 2009 baby - no problemo. Just run that stuff through Google's translator, right? Not exactly... world's first NSFW press release <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/">after the jump</a>!<br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="postgallery"><p><strong>Gallery: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/">Loder1899 Ford Focus RS</a></strong></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder00_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder10_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder20_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder30_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/loder1899-ford-focus-rs/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/10/loder40_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></div><br />
[Souce: <a href="http://www.loder1899.de/de/presse1315.html">Loder1899</a> via <a href="http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/244201/tuned_ford_focus_rs.html">EVO</a>]<p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Loder1899 heats up Ford's already cookin' Focus RS</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/">Loder1899 heats up Ford's already cookin' Focus RS</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblog</a> on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:29:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19213099/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/28/loder1899-heats-up-fords-already-cookin-focus-rs/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>
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