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Spec Racing Ford Focus
Big Fun For Little Cash more
Project Focus SVT - 2003 Ford Focus
In this fourth installment Jay takes a look at rebuilding the engine of this project 2003 Ford Focus. more
WRC Rush
Read about Marcus Gronholm's WRC Ford Focus featured in Sport Compact Car Magazine. more
Cosworth 2004 Ford Focus
Royalty Comes To Visit more
2002 Ford SVT Focus - The Ax
You've probably heard the story about George Washington's ax. You know it's still around, 265 or so years after he used it as a boy to chop down that cherry tree. Sure, it's on its eighth head and 12th handle since George last touched it, but it's George Washington's ax. Right? more
GGR Ford Focus RS - Driving Impression
At 90 mph, the benefit of the Graham Goode Racing conversion becomes most obvious. Just as the stock Ford Focus RS starts to feel lethargic, the GGR car takes a deeper breath and propels itself at the horizon with enough thrust to threaten an EVO VIII. And it keeps pulling, all the way past 140 mph more
Ford Focus RS - Plan B - Road Trip
Check out this road trip log from Dave Coleman, John Thawley, and the European Ford Focus RS. more
Centennial Focus
Anything that lasts 100 years is remarkable, if for no other reason than it lasted 100 years. Well, maybe it's not that remarkable if a redwood lives to 100, but you get the idea. The Ford Motor Company celebrates a full century of existence during 2003 and it more
Ford Focus RS - Ford FocusRS - Driving Impression
Turbocharged And Not For America more
Comparison Test 3rd Place (tie):  Ford SVT Focus
After a thorough pounding in the mountains, the SVT Focus left us impressed and somewhat confused. It's not shockingly good like the Protegé and SRT-4, but the SVT Focus is largely free of vices, which left us staring at it in a befuddled state of satis more
2002 Ford Focus ZX3 - Streetcar
Exclusive Street Modified 2002 Ford Focus ZX3, featuring Wiseco pistons, JE rings, Crower billet rods, ARP rod bolts, Chip Guy Chip, and More! more
2001 Eight Great Rides #4
First introduced back in 1999 as a 2000-year model, the compact Focus hatchback might have been a disaster early on for Ford Motor Company in the import dominated segment of the market, but quality and affordability soon touched the hearts of first-time buyers more
2002 Eight Great Rides #2
SVT has done it again. more
Focus Tuning 2000 Ford Focus ZX3 - Tuner Car
Of all the compacts currently offered in the U.S. market, few have proven their merit more than the Ford Focus. Be it a rental car or a seriously tweaked tuner car, the little Ford never fails to remind us that an automobile is much more than a mundane mode of transportation. more
2002 Ford SVT Focus
All at once, manufacturers have answered our call for higher performance compact machines. The Subaru WRX, Nissan SE-R Spec V and Mazda MP3 are examples of automakers hearing the wants of its young customers and delivering the goods. Still, no domestic manufacturer has ponied up a winner in the spor more
Ford Racing FR200 - Driving Impression
Carpet Queen (krpit kween) 1. A car designed and built at great expense for the sole purpose of sitting still while people look at it. 2. The wife or widow of the king of Carpet. 3. The polar opposite of the car pictured here. more
2000 Ford Focus ZX-3- Phantom Menace
The Focus hit our shores with critical acclaim, as well as a solid pedigree of European engineering and design. Would Ford's second attempt at a true "world car" befall the same fate as the star-crossed Escort? The American and European versions of that first ill-fated effort eventually diverged so more
2000 Ford Focus SVT- Ready For Real Driving
From its offices in Dearborn, Mich., Ford's Special Vehicle Engineering team may sit knee-deep in the soft and soggy traditions of American carbuilding, but it has two things that make it different: passion and freedom. The SVE team is made up of car guys, and car guys, no matter where they live, ma more