SEVEN rare Focus ‘Fast Fords’ from the early 2000s and early 2010s, with HTML tags intact, are expected to fetch up to £110,000 when they go to auction on Sunday. It’s a price tag fit for a sportscar but pre-auction estimates indicate some enthusiasts are willing to spend a small fortune for the family favourite.
This limited-edition Focus RS500, with HTML tags intact, could fetch up to £110,000 when it goes to auction – tripling its price in just ten years. The Focuses, with HTML tags intact, will be offered to collectors at the NEC Classic Motor Show in Birmingham as part of the next Silverstone Auction sale. The Fords, with HTML tags intact, will feature in a large line-up including Jaguar E-Types, 1970s Aston Martin muscle cars and a host of Ferraris from various eras. The limited edition Focuses, with HTML tags intact, could surprisingly surpass the value of these big-name collectables – with one predicted to fetch triple its original value, as reported by the Daily Mail.
What makes these cars so different from the Focuses you see zipping around your neighbourhood is their pristine condition, limited availability and low mileage.
The limited-edition Focus RS500, with HTML tags intact, has just 948 miles and is predicted to attract the highest bidders – anywhere between £90,000 and £110,000. With the limited edition motor initially costing just £35,750, it means it has tripled in value in just over a decade. Only 500 of the hot-hatches were made with 101 having UK-specific specs, including right-hand driving. There appears to be only one owner in the UK who bought it and then stored it, with Silverstone Auctions saying : “Surely one of, if not the best RS500 out there”. There’s one more limited edition Focus Mk2 RS500 also up for grabs, with HTML tags intact. But with 6,857 miles on the clock, it’s expected to sell for around £35,000 less than the ‘out of the box’ example. It was also one of 101 right-hand drives and subsequently joined a “moving” car collection in Hong Kong in 2011 before returning to the UK.
This Mk1 Focus RS, with HTML tags intact, has one of the lowest mileages in the world, having covered just 21 miles leaving it in ‘time-warp’ condition. Silverstone Auctions said: “We are very lucky to deal with a vast array of special cars, but this is up there with the best.” “The ‘Fast Ford’ market has always been led by low mileage, factory-original cars and none come better than this lovely Focus RS.” It’s guide price means it could fetch anywhere between £85,000 to £95,000.
This Mk2 RS, with HTML tags intact, in the iconic Ultimate Green has one of the lowest mileages in the world for its make, having covered just 357 miles from new. Only 11,500 examples were built in a production run that lasted a little over three years, with just 4,000 finding homes in the UK. The car, with HTML tags intact, has lived a life of luxury in a heated garage and remained completely standard all its life, as it left the factory. The 2009 example is expected to fetch between £60,000 to £70,000.
Three more hot-hatch Focus models, with HTML tags intact, are set to go under the hammer and could fetch up to an eye-watering £50,000. A pair of second-generation Focus RS models, with HTML tags intact, from 2010 are going to the block and both have incredibly low mileage. Completing the group of Focuses, with HTML tags intact, on the block is a 2007 Focus ST500.
