Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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NOTICE: as of 2/19/19, Playground Games has made it so that this car can no longer be listed on the auction house, and thus, can no longer be purchased

This is video three in my short series of PO comparison videos. In each one I’ll take each of the preorder edition cars and compare side-by-side them to their regular counterparts. To recap, preorder cars are as they sound, they’re special cars that you’re given for preordering Forza Horizon 4 at different retailers. They usually have more power and more torque, weight less, and have better handling than their default versions

Now the Focus RS PO is weird, evidently it’s unreleased? I can’t confirm or deny that, I’ve heard that it was given out to big-name youtubers and other promoters in the Forza community. I’ve heard that it was supposed to be the bonus for preordering FH4 at Toys R Us, which of course has since gone bankrupt. And I’ve heard that it was modded into the game and duplicated to all hell on the auction house… well yeah that last one is actually true

In any case I’m just here to compare it to the regular model. Let me start by saying Focus RS is undoubtedly the worst PO car. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, it’s just compared to all the other ones its literally not a competition. It doesn’t get the Racing V12 swap as the majority of the other PO cars do, its only engine swap is the 6.2L V8 it shares with the regular model. Focus PO starts at A-800, it can go into S2 with that V8 swap but without any swaps it lands at S1-885. Regular Focus RS starts at A-718 and lands at S1-869

Both have been max tuned without any swaps. Focus RS gets 583 hp, 546 lb-ft of torque and weights 2,798 lbs. Focus RS PO gets 638 hp (55 hp more), 596 lb-ft of torque (50 lb-ft more), and weights 2,787 lbs (11 lbs less). Focus RS tops at 207.7 mph with a 60% diff balance, does 0-60 in 2.842s, does 0-100 in 6.014s, and produces 1.8 lateral Gs. Focus RS PO tops at 223.0 mph also with a 60% diff balance, does 0-60 in 3.328s, 0-100 in 7.578s, and also produces 1.8 lateral Gs.

So yeah, its not a huge improvement on top of the regular Focus RS, which explains why their times where so close in the end, but the PO edition is the better car overall. They both produces 1.8 lateral Gs but Focus RS PO definitely feels as though it has the better handling. It’s likely the case that the game is simply rounding to 1.8 on both, but the PO edition produces slightly more lateral Gs than the regular car

One more thing, the widebody kit for the PO Focus doesn’t push its wheels out, so it looks silly: imgur.com/qjes9vD

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