Ford’s European arm has announced the Dutch market launch of the Focus X Road special edition model that was first seen this past April at the AutoRAI motorshow in Amsterdam. Built in a limited run of only 300 unit all of which are destined for The Netherlands, the ‘tough’ looking Focus Station Wagon is priced from €25,175 or at today’s exchange rates, $35,800.

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company that includes KIA has overtaken the Ford Group in the first half of the year to become the fourth largest carmaker in the world selling 2,153,000 units or 8,000 more vehicles than the US giant in the same period, according to figures published by the Automotive News Data Centre. Only a decade ago, the then newly unified Hyundai and Kia company was in 11th place overall.

We don’t know what’s more startling - the car itself that has a mere 99 miles on the odo and appears to be in pristine factory condition or the fact that someone actually brought a brand-new Ford Mustang GT 5.0 V8 (can’t say that the Fox body was a high moment in the Stang’s history…) in 1985 and kept it in climate controlled storage for almost a quarter of a century. Either way, if you’re interested, the 1985 Mustang GT is up for auction on eBay where the highest bid is currently at $18,100 - though the reserve has not been met.

With the arrival of the new Ford Focus RS Mk2 tuners across Europe are readying various improvements for the hot hatch that leaves the factory with a 300 HP 2.5-liter turbocharged inline-five linked to a six-speed manual gearbox that transfers power to the front-wheels. One of the first upgrades to hit the market comes from Ford specialist Graham Goode Racing (GGR).

The ‘RS340′ engine tuning package for the Mk2 Focus RS consists only of an ECU upgrade with firmware modifications and software reprogramming.

This “aero” look influenced Fords worldwide; the 1983 Ford Thunderbird in North America introduced similar rounded, flowing lines, and some other new Fords of the time adopted the look. The aerodynamic features of the Sierra were developed from those first seen in the Escort Mark III — the “Aeroback” bootlid stump was proved to reduce the drag coefficient of the bodyshell significantly, which was a class leading 0.34 at its launch,[1] though not as good as the 0.22 of the visually similar Ford Probe III concept car of the previous year.

The aerodynamic styling of the Sierra would later be seen in North America’s equally revolutionary Ford Taurus.

It was designed by Uwe Bahnsen, Robert Lutz and Patrick le Quément. The code used during development was “Project Toni”.

Released on 21 September 1982, it replaced the Ford Cortina and Ford Taunus. Its aerodynamic styling was ahead of its time but many conservative buyers did not take fondly to the styling.

Continuing the steady flow of teasers on the new 2010 Mustang, today Ford released the 13th consecutive photo of its updated pony car that will make its world debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show in mid-November. If the picture looks familiar your absolutely right as Ford had revealed the shift knob in teaser No11. Only difference here is that that we can see part of the revised center console that features new A/C and radio controls.

A 1:64 scale die-cast version of the yet to be revealed 2010 Ford Mustang emerged on eBay this past weekend only to be removed by its Malaysian seller on Monday. While we cannot be 100 percent sure, from the looks of it, the slightly (ab)used Hot Wheels-branded toy version of the new Mustang GT appears to be a prototype model that somehow escaped from Mattel’s factory.

While everyone was either preoccupied with Obama’s election or with the countless concept cars and modded vehicles that are making their debut at this week’s SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Ford’s people found some time to upload yet another teaser photo of the soon-to-be fully revealed, 2010 Mustang. The 14th teaser shot gives us a more spherical view of the redesign cabin and well, that’s about it for this week.

Using the 2009 Mustang as a base, Roush Performance has developed its second aviation-themed pony car, the P-51B which is named after the legendary World War II fighter plane. As with the previous P-51A Mustang that was introduced at the 2007 SEMA Show, the new P-51B packs a heavily modified ROUSHcharged 4.6-liter V8 engine that puts down 510 horsepower and 510 lb.-ft. of torque. Among the changes for the 2009 Mustang ‘fighter’ are a secondary sheave FEAD, the addition of the ROUSH 6-piston brakes, a ROUSH vent pod gauge and new Cooper RS3 ultra-high performance tires.