Tweet TweetFord pulls the wraps off the new Focus WTCC Limited Edition, a model based on the Zetec S. Exterior features of the American model include a special Frost White exterior finish, blue racing stripes, larger 18-inch Rimstock Pro Race wheels fitted with Yokohama Advan Sport tires but also privacy glass. In the rear you will find a stainless steel sports exhaust while inside, buyers get new floor mats and sill plates but also carbon fiber trim. Even Ford released no pricing information on the Focus WTCC Limited Edition, we know that under the hood sits a 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine fitted with a Mountune MP200 package. The total output of the four-cylinder unit is rated at 202 horsepower and 320Nm of torque. “The car is endorsed by the FIA WTCC and also enjoys the benefit of a Ford warranty that includes the specially upgraded engine,” adds the company. Pricing and availability information should be released in the coming weeks. … [Read more...] about Ford Focus WTCC Limited Edition unveiled
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Polestar’s performance EV plan, according to CEO Thomas Ingenlath
For a business that has spent 20 years doing things with Volvos that it will probably never do again, Polestar, Gothenburg’s new ‘electric performance brand’, carries a remarkable aura of freshness and new endeavour about it.Perhaps it’s the sky-gazing nature of the name that does it, or the recent complete rethink of its partnership with Volvo, a company which itself has managed to stand outside the money-driven, horsepower-crazy, German-centric melee that forms the arena for mainland Europe’s other premium manufacturers.It also helps that, for the past six months, Polestar’s fortunes have been guided by an ambitious new CEO, Thomas Ingenlath, who as Volvo’s chief of design has spent the past five years making Gothenburg’s latest models beautiful and relevant. Designers don’t always make good business managers but Ingenlath intends to be an exception.Whatever the key reasons for Polestar’s eye-catching nature, this former … [Read more...] about Polestar’s performance EV plan, according to CEO Thomas Ingenlath