Part 6: The Editor-proof Bottom End
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It's something of an SCC tradition to start project car updates with a long list of excuses why the update is so late. Instead, let's flip that around a bit and explain why we finally got around to turbocharging our Focus. More than a year ago, we decided it m
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Don't get any ideas about going into the paint area wearing Avon Wild Country Roll-on. Same goes for Rexona Stick Cool or the local favorite, Axe Marine Desodorante. Apparently Speed Stick is OK, though, because Graciela lets me in, but not without casting a s
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This car looks different than the last time you saw it. We think it's better. Hopefully, in the coming months, it'll work as well as it looks. With new sponsors, suppliers and fabricators offering regular help, Project Rally Focus is slowly becoming the raceca
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It's about time! We've been promising a Focus project car since our first driving impression more than 17 months ago, but we have, to say the least, been a little behind schedule. As much as we enjoy the Focus' entertaining chassis dynamics, functional layout
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Most of our project installments center around taking a perfectly good car and screwing it up. At least that's what the masses would think. In personalizing, customizing and focusing our cars on performance above all else, we inevitably upset the delicate bala
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Building a one-off Group 5 rally car isn't easy. There are no established formulas to follow, no experience from which to build. This is the unfortunate reality of any new car like the Focus. But things are looking up. With the abundance of Foci beginning to a
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Project Focus is turning out to be remarkably easy. In hindsight, this might seem predictable, considering the near constant praise of its nimble chassis, handsome body and, well... willing, if not eager, engine. But it is that engine that had us worried. Judg
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For the last few months, our Focus has been doing nothing but burnouts. At every green light, pulling out of every driveway and in every McDonald's drive-thru, our tame-looking little hatch has been leaving its mark, the mark of the dogleg. With the addition o
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The last time you saw this car, it didn't look anything like a rally car. Times have changed. As we promised in the first installment of Project Focus several months back, development the Sport Compact Car/1320 Motorsports Ford Focus Rally car is well under wa
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It's finally going to happen. We're going rallying for real. If you've been reading Sport Compact Car closely for the last few years, you've probably noticed our attempts to sneak a rally story or rallycross event in the magazine every other month or so--strat
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Sport Compact Car is your best friend. Think about it. We own a car just like yours. We have an unlimited budget, have tried ev
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