On paper, the original Focus RS won’t blow your mind with its performance figures, but the way it behaves on a twisty mountain road will make you want to burn the paper, sell your SUV, and buy one as ...

was an unusual car when it appeared in October 2002. It was the first fast Ford to wear the exalted RS badge in five years, following the end of production of the Escort RS2000. The Focus stuck with ...

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 ...

Farewell Ford Focus. Its 27 year run has come to an end three years after Ford said its time was up. 12 million sales in under 30 years? That’s quite the achievement, although to be expected because ...

Auto Express readers voted the Ford Focus MkI as their top car of the past 25 years in our countdown in the 25th anniversary edition of the magazine. And while early examples now change hands for less ...

Surprise is an oddly slippery concept for the most part. Sometimes, things surprise us by differing massively from our expectations. More rarely, they ambush us by being exactly what we expect.