The third installment in the Ford Focus RS development documentary series sees the car undergoing road testing in the States. The distance the test cars had to travel was 1,600 km or 1,000 miles, from the Rocky Mountains to the Arizona desert.

This was undertaken to look at how well the car behaved and how much power it still had at high altitude, but also how it generally handled on the road. Aside from the camouflaged Focus prototypes, they also had rival cars along for the ride in order to have something to gauge the RS against.

Sadly, as we’ve come to expect from this mini-series, there is literally no information to be extracted from these videos. You watch them, you hear the engineers / test drivers engineers talk about their findings on the trip, but they don’t actually add anything new.

One area it does shine light on regards the atmosphere of these trips. It’s at times like these that our spies snap their photos, and incidentally we have shots of one prototype that looks exactly like the one in the video.

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