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Shadow Boxing

goes by the nickname ‘Shadow’. This might sound like an incongruous and bizarre name for something that’s so in-your-face it might as well have spilt your first pint in your debut post-lockdown pub trip, but the fact of the matter is that it comes from another age. This car wasn’t always this boisterous, and in fact it was always assumed that it would live in the shadow of its more raucous stablemate. You see, this isn’t the only Focus RS that its owner, Grant Butler, has lavished great care and attention upon. The other one is a car you may well be aware of – it’s deep purple and has 1010bhp, so you can imagine what a game-changer that was when he pulled off the covers. How could any other RS match up to that Veyron-shaming power? Of course this other one was going to

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