最近谍照记者在纽伯格林赛道拍到了疑是福克斯RS500照片。这款车采用了一些原型车空力套装，车尾翼型扰流器。很明显该车仍处于开发早期阶段，引擎盖采用深灰色金属漆涂装。另外，福特工程师似乎有意用一块板遮盖车辆前置中冷，这表明福特对福克斯RS已经很强劲的功率输出做出了进一步的调整。当然，该车输出功率不会有大幅提升，至多也就是增加几马力。这辆原型车也有可能在测试专门为该车开发的双离合器变速器。与大众不同，福特还未曾给主流车型提供可进一步降低油耗的双离合器变速器。或许这款车将是首款配备双离合变速器的车型。

 

Looks like the Ford Focus RS500 is actually happening

Ford's hopped-up RS500 variant of the Focus RS appears to be returning, if our European spies are correct.

 

Spotted at the 'ring, this RS variant is boasting some prototype aerodynamic body work. The rear wing spoiler, especially, is clearly very early on in development and the hood is mismatched to the rest of the car's dark grey metallic paint. Could it be a composite piece of some sort?

 

It also appears that Ford's engineers are making adjustments to the block-off plates covering parts of the car's front-mounted intercooler, which would likely point to some sort of tweaking of the Focus RS's already-impressive power output. While it seems unlikely that we'd see a huge bump from this hotted-up hatch, we expect at least a few extra ponies will be on offer.

 

This prototype could also be a testbed for development of a new dual-clutch transmission designed specifically for performance applications. Unlike Volkswagen, Ford has thus far only offered its clutch-based automatics as efficiency-oriented transmissions for mainstream cars. Could this be the first product to shake up that pattern?