You can't actually go to Ford and buy a GGR RS370FR from stock - you have to take it to GGR - who charge you another £3975 + VAT for the privilege. I read its first drive in Autocar last week. They only gave it 3/5.
Its back to comparing a tuned car against a stock car. I'm sure if you were to splash out £4k on the Golf R, you'd have something that would eat the Focus for breakfast.
i also read that, did you see the 0-60 time

but if you spalsh out 4k on the golf your looking at a 40k car with the extras

so still alot more than the RS with the extra 4k....
and as time goes by youjust know their will be sooo many more mad mods forthe ford, just as it was with the cossies back in the day, plus i would imagine in years to come the ford will be worth more, cosworths now are worth a hell of alot, series 1 turbos are too!!! like 10k plus for the right ones
very much doubt a tuned R would eat the RS for breakfast but i can see why you would say that after shelling out 30 odd K on one (if thats yours in your sig it looks SOOOOO much better than the gay blue, very nice car indeed)
im sure both the RS and R are nice cars, to me the golf is the pretentious one out of the two and the ford is the mad asbo in your face monster.supose it depends what you want, over on the RS forums they say exactly what you guys say but only in favour of the ford

i like them both, just wish the Golf looked more mean, have you got more pictures of the white one??
*not looking for arguments btw