2003 Ford Focus RS Mark 1

This car has only covered 42,887 miles in its 19 years, remarkably low mileage considering how tempting it must be to take for a drive! It started life in Strabane, Northern Ireland, before moving a little way to Omagh, and still wears its original N.I. registration number.

The current owner has had it a couple of years, and enjoys owning a wide variety of classic and sports cars so having had the pleasure of the RS in his garage for a while is now ready to move on to something different.

The Focus RS gained some styling tweaks to give it some serious road presence but stayed on the right side of tasteful, and the looks have aged incredibly well. The body work is in fantastic condition, the panels are free of dings and have good panel gaps. The Imperial Blue paint glows in the sun, and reflects the low mileage with very few marks in the finish, a very light scratch on the offside rear bumper and some stone chips around the car as might be expected. The headlamps are bright and clear and the badges and trim look good, and it still has the original dealer sticker in the window and rear number plate. The black plastic door handles she some signs of use.

The 18” alloys are unmarked and have recent Kumho tyres all round that have only covered a few miles.

Open the door and amazingly the protective blue film is still on the sill tread plates. Look further inside and there are the unique to the RS Sparco two tone leather and alcantara bucket seats, with twin blue stripes, RS embossed logo and race harness ready cut-outs in the headrests. It also has the Sparco aluminium handbrake grip and metal RS ball gear shift with blue lettering, these in a carbon fibre centre console which also houses the numbered disk identifying the car from the limited run and the start/stop button.

Overall the seats are in excellent condition with little sign of wear, although the drivers seat base has some creases, some signs of wear on the alcantara parts and there is a very small area of colour wear on that side bolster.

It also a blue and black leather steering wheel which is in excellent condition, blue dials on the instruments and has Sparco metal pedals which have very little wear.

In the boot are the original RS floor mats which the owner has kept for show use only, using ordinary mats day to day, and the carpets have been well protected so have very few signs of use.

A Scan Gauge trip computer has been added to the dash top which can be plugged into the OBD port to give more detail about the cars running.

Looking under the car there is a good coating of black underseal which looks like factory application. Its very clean below the car with no visible signs of damage and the exhaust back boxes are still bright metal.

Under the bonnet all is clean and dry, and the inner wings and slam panel are straight and in good order. The owner tells us it runs and drives very well.

The car was last serviced in 2021, but has covered very few miles since then, and passed its MOT in May with no advisories. There are a couple of older MOTs, including its last from Northern Ireland in January 2016 when it had 37,000 miles on the clock, and since moving to England it has covered only another 5000 miles in the last 5 years

The factory service book has plenty of stamps up to 2010, and the most recent oil service has been added to the book. The book pack includes the Focus RS supplement and a handbook for the Scan Gauge.

With so few miles on the clock and in superb condition this is an amazingly original example of this fantastic fast Ford, one of the best drivers cars of the new millennium. Only 1900 were registered in the UK and after 2 decades approximately 1600 remain, and many of those survivors have been modified or driven to high miles, so finding one so close to showroom condition is a rare opportunity to own one as Ford intended.

We estimate this vehicle to reach between £25,000 - £30,000.

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