Wait...the founder’s second name was “Mountune”??? No way, I thought the name came from a mix between “mountain” and “tune” wtf...that’s the coolest second name ever
Check out Dick Johnson ford Sierra cosworth, back in the day Mountune made big reliable numbers with GRP A touring cars and were able to just about keep the R32 gtr’s honest. Latterly they brought the engines over to the British touring car championship and won that as well.
You ever tried drive a 500 bhp car hard on the road? You would end up killing someone, how these you tubers haven’t had a serious accident I’ll never know
I came from the vw side of cars. Didn’t know much about the st but fell in love with a 2017 Focus st and bought it. Started looking into upgrades and kept seeing RS when I was typing Focus. So I clicked on RS one day and was immediately pissed off I never heard of them and didn’t get one instead! Always hella jealous when I see them.
Ditto ! I am about to get Mountune to install an LSD in my Focus ST , it is my first car with out an LSD and it is hard to deal with out one !! especially with rain and snow and pulling the boat out of the water
CJK20 don’t waste your time m8 I only kept mine 3 months and bought another rs mk2 Focus. The mk2 is in my opinion better looking sounding and gets far more attention than the mk3
Very nice focus, i had 542whp/531wtq last year in my built 2.0 on 29psi. Thing is nuts, finishing up my stroker build, rs head swap, g35-900, all the good stuff.
Mountune the place to go for Ford tuning without much risk especially to keep Ford warranty. Nice change in video Ricky mixing it with management/director. Could trust this man👍
I felt like Ricky was extra extra polite for this one, had his mouth washed prior to the vid, not a swear wide entered his conscience, care to comment Rick? 😂
U get the most power and boost in track mode..but drift mode also gives u that boost response but that mode controls the transfer of the power n boost differently witch is to be expected if ur drifting.. My opinion track mode is the best performance you will get out the car if u wanna see what it can do as of a factory tune. This car made me speechless amazing performance but the handling hands down is what impressed me the most 🔥 car and anyone that say well it just a focus drive it then make a comment.
My cousins has gone bang inall 3 bent rods and a piston split in half Ford has robbed yous all with these cars in all honesty Even heard of a heritage model not even making 800 miles before grenading itself
stock engines, especially before they sorted the head gasket issue, sadly weren't very strong. Guys in the states are using the ST 2L platform, forging them and getting more reliable figures
Dale Steel Blew one stock engine and one tuned engine by Mountune in Essex (FPM375, intercooler, Sport springs, charge pipes, secondary intake, short shift, cat back exhaust) Second engine had the upgraded head gasket. Both engines got me a combined 6,000 miles
Mine has had now problems now it has the m400r kit apart from running scorpion sports cat and catback its loud and angry and keeps up with most things cheers steve 😀👍
@@davidnichol7077 for me yes👍 it's what tuning company your in to I think the r&d mountune put in is more than others, other companies make more power and torque for cheaper but would rather has a safe power than just big numbers even know bigger numbers are better and think it slightly better for re-sale value for me cheers steve 👍
There’s a reason people stick to the VAG/BMW crew over a FRS. 15-20k of mods to make 520bhp is unfortunately out of most people’s budgets at that level.
Cool car but think you have to be a proper Ford guy to A. Spend a lot of money in the first place on a relatively new car And B. Spend 18k on modifications! Just the price on modifications would get you a properly sorted EVO, add the cost of the car on top and your talking GTR's/AMG's/M cars etc etc. Just something that always comes to mind when I hear prices like this, however I'm glad there are cars like this out there still being produced and at the end of the day each to there own 😊 TBH though I prefer the MK2 better looking and better engine.
110% agree they ruined rs fpcus with this model looks like a body kitted at nothing special mk2 all the way should bring the mk2 out again but 4x4 & more power from the go
Your workrate is second to none the speed you're bashing videos out, deserve everything good that's coming to you mate.
Love the format Ricky, you need to do more content with tuning companies👌🏼
Wait...the founder’s second name was “Mountune”??? No way, I thought the name came from a mix between “mountain” and “tune” wtf...that’s the coolest second name ever
I know some mad shit. Perfect name for a performance mod
nathan plunkett I reckon that’s why he got into the business haha
Check out Dick Johnson ford Sierra cosworth, back in the day Mountune made big reliable numbers with GRP A touring cars and were able to just about keep the R32 gtr’s honest.
Latterly they brought the engines over to the British touring car championship and won that as well.
That was a slip of the tongue. His surname is Mountain.
Isn't this car awd?
Very Tame test drive there!! Would have loved to see the car get a harder drive and cornering. 👍🏻
yeah it seemed more like an advert for Mountune than anything.
You ever tried drive a 500 bhp car hard on the road? You would end up killing someone, how these you tubers haven’t had a serious accident I’ll never know
@@harry-io9fz Lot of un usable power cars on TH-cam. I dont see the point or the expense ?
Bet this feels slow compared to the Millennium Falcon he’s used to flying 🤣
Happy that Ford and Honda havnt gone down the DSG/DCT route. True drivers cars.
Ford specialist in Essex , of course where else 🤣
I came from the vw side of cars. Didn’t know much about the st but fell in love with a 2017 Focus st and bought it. Started looking into upgrades and kept seeing RS when I was typing Focus. So I clicked on RS one day and was immediately pissed off I never heard of them and didn’t get one instead! Always hella jealous when I see them.
Ditto ! I am about to get Mountune to install an LSD in my Focus ST , it is my first car with out an LSD and it is hard to deal with out one !! especially with rain and snow and pulling the boat out of the water
Probably should've done your research...
Me No cameras up this road also me I would never condone speeding looool legend
Ricky making moves, doing car reviews with company directors! Go on Rick!
These are really growing on me. I think they got a bad rap for the initial bad engine issues but I bet this felt just ridiculous!
Dale Steel yeah man I’ve been in a few very very good.
Dale Steel yeah I haven’t heard to much good out of those. Albeit I have seen a few tuners pushing them
STtyrone do it I’m sure you’ll love every second
Dale Steel I can’t really say I’ve heard the 3 cylinder ones
CJK20 don’t waste your time m8 I only kept mine 3 months and bought another rs mk2 Focus. The mk2 is in my opinion better looking sounding and gets far more attention than the mk3
Very nice focus, i had 542whp/531wtq last year in my built 2.0 on 29psi. Thing is nuts, finishing up my stroker build, rs head swap, g35-900, all the good stuff.
2016 50k miles on 440bhp good tune good fuel their solid.
Mountune the place to go for Ford tuning without much risk especially to keep Ford warranty. Nice change in video Ricky mixing it with management/director. Could trust this man👍
6:17 “seeeeeeems” 😭💀
Emojis on youtube...wow
Great vid rick. You are literally doing vids with tuning legends. Biggest names in motorsport and tuning at this point. Great watch.
Naughty motor mountune godfather of ford modding/tuning
Josh walton Mountune May have been here a while but certainly not the best in terms of the Ford tuning community.
Lovely looking motor,pity you couldn’t push it a bit harder 👌🏻
Literally round the corner from, got to love the A12 :/ when it’s beautiful potholes especially around Mountnessing/Brentwood strip.
iMann iFail that 3 lane strip 🤐
Same here mate busy a12 too many cars for a boost lol
Broom pop, vrroom pop... Hate this trend in the car scene
I agree but when it happens naturally that’s fine 😁
@@alanconnolly2777 so true
Coming from the fN mustang guy that ride wround town straight piped for no reason
Great review and content. Great effort with the Ford but there can only be one king RS hatch!
Good Luck Mountune, taking on the big boy's ! cool wee pallet hanging ! gave me an idea for the Cave lol
That's certainly not for the faint-hearted! Great video Ricky.
I felt like Ricky was extra extra polite for this one, had his mouth washed prior to the vid, not a swear wide entered his conscience, care to comment Rick? 😂
Perfect timing wow
Ricky moving up in the world, keep it up bro. We all love your work
I went the Collins route when tuning mine but Mountune are a great company as well
Got an original RS myself in Nitrous Blue, stock but i love it. Bout to start modding slightly, can recommend the car BIG TIME.
Mine has the m400r kit it's like a different car cheers steve 😀
Litchfield stage 1 😍
Get puma speed stage1r you won’t regret it. I have it on mine and it’s faster than an M2 non comp.
Innocentchip Wanna get a stage 1 but I’m worried about things holding up, don’t want anything so blow already just got it 3 months ago
Adam Dahlberg trust me nothing will blow up. Solid as a rock. I’ve been running it on 400bhp for 7months and I drive it hard, not had a single issue.
Excellent video I'm there again this month I wouldn't take my mrk4 focus st any where but Mountune's
Good for you getting that VPN money now ;)
Montune HQ looks the dogs bollox like... very best of set ups .
U get the most power and boost in track mode..but drift mode also gives u that boost response but that mode controls the transfer of the power n boost differently witch is to be expected if ur drifting.. My opinion track mode is the best performance you will get out the car if u wanna see what it can do as of a factory tune. This car made me speechless amazing performance but the handling hands down is what impressed me the most 🔥 car and anyone that say well it just a focus drive it then make a comment.
Ricky was really on his best behavior Lol
I wanna see the dyno print out 😂
Look on moutune website it's all there
Cheers to mountune, good on em. Interesting vid brother. 👍😏
Get rid of the old man. And put it through its paces
😂😂Agreed or just floor it with him in it
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO. Also good good stuff for Mountune giving their time, goes to show how well regarded your channel is. BANG ON, all the best.
“Nothings bullet proof”
😊K11 micra enters the chat
This is what I call modified properly
Ricky seems humble af
Be surprised if the block holds up to the power. Personally blew 2 MK3 RS engines
Init a mates went bang 2k after stage 1 map 😂
My cousins has gone bang inall 3 bent rods and a piston split in half
Ford has robbed yous all with these cars in all honesty
Even heard of a heritage model not even making 800 miles before grenading itself
stock engines, especially before they sorted the head gasket issue, sadly weren't very strong. Guys in the states are using the ST 2L platform, forging them and getting more reliable figures
Dale Steel Blew one stock engine and one tuned engine by Mountune in Essex (FPM375, intercooler, Sport springs, charge pipes, secondary intake, short shift, cat back exhaust)
Second engine had the upgraded head gasket. Both engines got me a combined 6,000 miles
@@jamesreilly8328 mine has the m400r and never had a problem from day 1👍😀
I love Focus RS, doesn't matter which model year.
We need to see stage 5 tuned ford focus rs next
YES RICKY! BIG TINGS! 🙌🏾
Mans in brentwood!
Steppin it up a bit with these kinds of videos 👍
LLF on the weekend 👌😎
Lovely car, mines been bullet proof so far, thinking about going to 400hp I think that's my comfortable level personally!
@@DaleSteel good to hear! Always get a bit nervous upping the power on cars!
Mine has had now problems now it has the m400r kit apart from running scorpion sports cat and catback its loud and angry and keeps up with most things cheers steve 😀👍
@@STEVEBHPDEVON worth the money Steve? Was that or revo stage 2 I am looking into atm
@@davidnichol7077 for me yes👍 it's what tuning company your in to I think the r&d mountune put in is more than others, other companies make more power and torque for cheaper but would rather has a safe power than just big numbers even know bigger numbers are better and think it slightly better for re-sale value for me cheers steve 👍
Ricky was dieing to open that right up but was on his best behaviour
You could've reviewed shmees one, that would be a sick Collab
shmee is just a over excited snobby fool.
STtyrone me neither!!!
Shmee is just busy being shmee. His videos are unbearable due to his overexcited nature
Rah you man proper hate him, allow the guy 😂
Spot on vid bud. Really enjoy it👍
First time I’ve seen their setup.. looks great, but they are pretty expensive..
Great video Ricky and very interesting as well 👍🏼
Fucking hell mate... you must be doing something right to get a ride with Alec! Great vid 👌🎩
Would make 600bhp with Airtec written all over it and huge stickers as per normal fast Fords these days lol #bringbacktigerstripes
Love your videos mate 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Nice vid Rick 🙌🏽
Better of getting S3 or Golf R and remapping it
For who? What a random comment. S3 and golf R are nothing like this. Better off getting a type r
It’s personal preference there all amazing cars and all have different advantages, personally I’d get the Audi though
I’d go rs3, heard you can get insane power out of them. But they don’t offer a manual, so sad.
A predictable German shitbox
Young Karn boring cars, get a cupra
Ford need to bring these with a dual clutch transmission
Hi Ricky loving the channel man
Great video loved it, what Road tax /emissions bracket will this 520bhp be in?
N double my insurance..
My Focus RS Mk2 is going stage 2 at some point this year. Will be looking at around £5k with a few extra bits!
There’s a reason people stick to the VAG/BMW crew over a FRS. 15-20k of mods to make 520bhp is unfortunately out of most people’s budgets at that level.
mountune is very expensive i used to have a mk2.
Yeah they are. That's why in looking for other stuff, like AIRTEC.
Focus RS does NOT have a very tuneable power plant.
The mk2 certainly did, not the new model though
@Shane a 100%
What makes you say that? Not being an asshole, I genuinely just don't know. Are the factory internals weak or something?
@@TheDarkhorse228 yeah factory engine is prone to breaking down, up to 15,000 cases before engine has reached 10,000 miles
@@robbiemarshall1481 are you reffering to mountune mode or the standard RS
JCR make a seat lowering frame to lower the seats but it loses rear leg room, and like he said getting in and out is easier if you are old! lol
Awesome car!
secure the bag 🤝🏾
Where can you buy the front big brake kit from?
Cool car but think you have to be a proper Ford guy to A. Spend a lot of money in the first place on a relatively new car
And
B. Spend 18k on modifications!
Just the price on modifications would get you a properly sorted EVO, add the cost of the car on top and your talking GTR's/AMG's/M cars etc etc. Just something that always comes to mind when I hear prices like this, however I'm glad there are cars like this out there still being produced and at the end of the day each to there own 😊 TBH though I prefer the MK2 better looking and better engine.
Good vid Ricky
a question, that fender is mountune too? on page doesnt exist. Thanks!
This intake for 2.0tfsi looks great and if work that perfect
Are they reliable from factory now or? Was looking for a RS but the i30N is changing my mind.
i30N 100% the best hot/hyper hatch about
TreeWop not really very hyper though is it 😂
@@HarryG98 But it's "only" front wheel drive.
*RB RS* hence why i said hot/hyper. Im not saying its hyper but i am saying its the better than all the other hot/hyper hatches on sale
IM26C4U only idiots can only have fun in 4wd card
That was a fun drive then!! 🤣
I really hate the bonnet vents, some sort of louvre would look a lot better, apart from that real nice
Worth pointing out that car has 15grand of performance mods, on a 31k car. That puts you in M/RS/AMG territory.
Yeah with another 100bhp+ and way better handling. Yeah the Germans have nicer interiors but I know what I'd rather blast down a B road.
Lookin gnarly
They need longer gears so the crappers can actually build boost
Nice video rick,😎
Looks Decent 👍
Yes man like Rik, another hooligan car 🇨🇾💯💣💣💥💪👌😎🔝
That was some cock-up by Ford fitting the wrong head gaskets...cant help but think of that with mk3s
Nice one bruv.... Rhamahtech 🤠👍
Paid 26.5k for mine with 7000 miles and a 375 kit from there, did wonder how much to take it up a little more😂😂 18k, she’s good as she is.....
Is this running the mrx turbo kit
Hope to see a rs a 1000 bhp that would be crazy
Although i am fan of awd i think the only problem with this car is that is not so hot as the mk1 amd mk2 rs...
16:55 shut the front door.... a ford gt, forget the rest when thats there
did this have mrx turbo kit?
So the 2.3 can handle 450 stock internals??
Ricky ?? Vag Rs3 vs mk3 ford ?
Hate 2 say it, but the lights smoked would look good on this
Guy's less talk and more gas!
Less talk more gas...
Was that smoke or steam on accelerating!!!???
Doesn’t look like a rs , mk2 focus rs looked mean , this just looks like a family / company car .... it’s lost it’s rs-ness .
110% agree they ruined rs fpcus with this model looks like a body kitted at nothing special mk2 all the way should bring the mk2 out again but 4x4 & more power from the go
Agreed, still find myself doing a double take whenever I see a MK2 RS new one never!
@@wh0reb0t C63 amg
@@wh0reb0t I'm talking about the 6.2 w204 C63, the cult classic. It's the one I have and it's been my dream car since forever (attainable dream car)
@@wh0reb0t 22k. I'm 22.
Ricky, Calvin's RS6 needs a test pilot have you volunteered? 🙂
5 pot sounds better 💪
Beautiful car!! Great review