---
title: "Grandparents Try Focus RS Drift Mode"
description: "Hilarity ensues."
date: "2016-09-11"
modified: "2016-09-11"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/5156/grandparents-try-focus-rs-drift-mode"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "compact"
  - "Drift Mode"
  - "focus"
  - "Focus RS"
  - "Ford"
  - "Grandparent's Day"
  - "Hatchback"
  - "LOL"
  - "sports car"
---

# Grandparents Try Focus RS Drift Mode

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Sunday is Grandparents' Day, an unofficial holiday of blue plate special proportions. To mark the occasion, a couple of Ford engineers decided to treat their meemaws and pop-pops to an afternoon at the skidpad. The idea? Throw on helmets, strap those old bones into the passenger seat of a [Focus RS](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/4138/all-the-things-no-one-told-me-about-the-ford-focus-rs>), then give the grandparents a healthy taste of [Drift Mode](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/4609/ford-focus-rs-drift-mode-was-a-happy-accident>) lunacy.

The setup is clearly a marketing exercise, but the sales pitching is kept to a minimum; the good folks at [Donut Media](<https://www.thedrive.com/design/2176/evolution-of-the-porsche-911-captured-in-under-two-minutes>) have managed to extract results that aren't only palatable, but genuinely entertaining. Things take a delightful twist when everybody swaps seats, and the grandparents get a turn hooning the RS around. One of the seniors even has an adorable off into a gravel trap. Hot hatch noises, the elderly, and plenty of tire smoke. What's not to like?

Happy Grandparents' Day. Give yours a call.

https://youtube.com/embed/Ukpk_txu-4g

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