SHADOW BOXING

This Focus, vivid and vibrant acid-yellow as it is, goes by the nickname Shadow. It might sound like an incongruous and bizarre name for something that’s so in-your-face it might as well have spilt your pint in your first post-lockdown pub trip, but the fact is that it comes from another age.

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This isn’t the only Focus RS that its owner, Grant Butler, has lavished great care and attention upon. The other 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 such Veyron-shaming power? Of course this