Ford Focus RS a ‘regular’ car that goes like a blue streak

Were you to compare the Ford Focus RS to a seismic event, it would be the devastating power of Vesuvius, the explosiveness of Krakatoa, and the lingering menace of the San Andreas fault.

Normal engineering parameters — brake horse power, torque, etc, — can be set aside and, instead, you can measure this very special car’s abilities in terms of the Richter Scale.

That being so, I can cautiously warn you that the RS will record a 9.0 on the Richter Scale, a magnitude that will, in the official language of seismology, cause “at or near total destruction… and permanent changes in ground topography”.