Paul Elledge Photography, Inc. The 2017 Ford Focus RS is available with the drift stick, an extension of the parking brake that locks the rear wheels for a short time. Paul Elledge Photography, Inc.

If you can’t get the Ford Focus RS to drift, it is now officially on you. The all-wheel-drive car already features a “Drift Mode” that directs power to the rear and loses up the stability and traction ...

With its turbocharged 2.3-liter I-4 and dual-clutch, torque-vectoring all-wheel drive system, the Ford Focus RS was always going to be among the rowdiest of hot hatches. But its most raucous feature, ...

Announced at SEMA 2017, the Ford Performance Drift Stick is an electronic handbrake for the Focus RS that is designed to do one thing – induce drift. The automaker claims that the unit is "intended ...

Australian enthusiasts have been dealt a major boost with confirmation this week that Ford's upcoming Focus RS hot hatch will be fitted with a 'Drift' function available to other markets. In the wake ...

The Audi RS3 and the Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG may be ahead of the 2016 Ford Focus RS when it comes to unadulterated grunt, but that’s not such a bad thing after all. In any case, the hot hatches from ...

Besides the Nissan Skyline GT-R, the Ford Focus RS is one of those cars American auto enthusiasts craved for years. After 2015, the North American performance car market finally witnessed the sheer ...

CARS.COM — The Ford Focus RS is — among other things — a drift machine. Beginning Dec. 1, Ford will sell the Drift Stick, a kit for the Focus RS that includes an electronic handbrake and the necessary ...

While the all-new 2017 Ford Focus RS is the first car to offer a Drift Mode among its driver-selectable drivetrain settings, the new feature doesn't make up for lack of driving skill or common sense ...

Now that Ford’s highly-anticipated new hot hatch has made it into the hands of American customers, those owners are at long last getting used to their 350-horsepower, all-wheel-drive, do-everything ...

As some engineers at Ford learned not long ago, some of the best things in life are discovered by accident: Play-Doh; Velcro; the Slinky; and apparently, even the Focus RS’s Drift Mode. “I guess it’s ...