Sure, it had fattened arches and a limited-slip diff, but it rolled down the same production line as the regular Ford Focus, which makes a huge difference to the production cost. That meant Ford could ...

Some Ford Focus suffer with the same ATE Teves Mk 60 ASB/ESP module brake pressure switch fault as VAG cars. The best people to fix this are www.ecutesting.co.uk, but you need to remove the module and ...

Ford Focus RS mk1 spare parts should be easier to source thanks to a £1million collection. It’s been made available by the National Clearance Centre, operated by the Foray Motor Group, and should ...

Drive a poorly set up Mk1 Focus RS and Ford’s motorsport-grade hot hatch will tumble in your estimations. That was certainly the case for evo when we drove early examples in period; where was the ...

What was even more amazing, when we got to drive it, was that the Focus had the Fiats, the Golf and every other comer beaten, for handling, powertrains, packaging, refinement and sophistication. At ...

Ford pioneered the idea of the family car; it might not have ever built a better one than the Mk1 Focus We've all seen those stories about 'the most important cars in history'. The usual suspects that ...

Landmark hatchbacks – there have been a few - the most obvious, of course, being the Volkswagen Golf. It not only saved its maker from post-Beetle oblivion but emphatically confirmed the template for ...