I believe that when they started using it it was the only passenger car in the Ford system (Ford used to own Volvo) that had 4WD.
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That would seem sensible - good shout on the Focus RS lets see
An Italian website summed it up well for me:
"The question marks are many, starting with the car's competitiveness, the figures of the contract, a possible return of Ford to support M-Sport, or the intervention of Red Bull in the wake of Ogier. A number of items that in most cases cannot be answered at least until 2017, and therefore it's assumed that the commitment will be for one year only."
DobroSport-autohebdo @ericdobro · 8m8 minutes ago
@eWRCresults Seb test next week, the base is already known!
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