We already know that the Ford Focus RS is awesome. But unfortunately so do lots of other people, which is why Ford has already sold 2,400 of the 4,000 RSs it plans to build.

What’s worse is that the car is built in allocations for each country, and the first UK allocation has been and gone. That’s good news if you’ve already had an order in for a while – your car will be with you within six weeks – but if you place an order today, the next batch of UK cars won’t be running down the production line until November, meaning you’ll have to wait until December to get behind the wheel. Boo.

If you can’t stomach the wait, we’ve just been doing a trawl of the usual suspects – Auto Trader, PistonHeads etc – and found a good few examples of the hottest Ford Focus of all time.

However, the cheapest car we could find was a Frozen White RS for private sale at £27,250 with 500 miles on the clock. Top end of the budget is a car in the same colour claiming to have just one mile on the clock – yours for £6 shy of £32 grand.

Related:

• Ford Focus RS video review
• Download a Ford Focus RS wallpaper