Ford Focus
COLMA, CA - APRIL 09: A brand new Ford Focus is seen reflected on side of another Focus on the sales lot at Serramonte Ford on April 9, 2013 in Colma, California. According to a report by R.L. Polk & Co., the Ford Focus is the best selling automobile in the world with 1.02 million registered Focus cars in 2012, far ahead of the Toyota Corolla which saw 872,774 registered vehicles.
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When you go out and buy a Ford Focus, your gas mileage is better than it was with your old Range Rover, so you buy less gas ... This removes the volatility from our gas tax.
There weren't as many alternatives on the new-vehicle front, but today you have the Ford C-Max hybrid, you've got great lease promos on the Nissan Leaf and the Ford Focus electric
For example, the Ford Focus has been a spectacular success. It was the best-selling model in 2012 but Toyota's Corolla had perennially been the best-selling car over the ten years before that.More quotes »
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Ford Focus was best-selling car in 2012, automaker says
official: The Ford Focus was the best-selling car in the world in 2012, according to R.L. Polk & Co.While the title comes with all sorts of caveats, the rise of the Focus nameplate says all kinds of things about the U.S. and Asian automotive industries, the Read more »
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Resale value is no higher in cars with fuel-efficient extras
national inventory, just six include an SFE designation. And of the nearly 6,000 examples of the current-generation Ford Focus , just 13 are tagged as SFEs.Moreover, residuals calculators like ALG don't list resale projections for such packages because they Read more »
Around the web
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Child taken to hospital after Aberdeen crash
CHILD was taken to hospital after a rush-hour crash in Aberdeen. A blue Ford Focus was in a collision with another vehicle on the A93 Aberdeen to Peterculter road last night. Emergency services were called to the scene, at the junction with Contlaw Road at from Evening Express Read more »
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Ford made mistakes, says Brumby
Ford in the longer term." Mr Brumby said the Victorian government also offered assistance for the local production of the Ford Focus, which the company did not proceed with. "In contrast, Holden has done very well with the Cruze using some of the spare production from The Daily Telegraph Read more »
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Hammer blow for local industry
years. Ford concluded in 2008 that like Holden it needed to get economies of scale here by manufacuring a small car, the Ford Focus, but as the crisis intensified it scrapped that plan in 2009. Plan B, a four-cylinder Ford Falcon that offered similar power from The Age Read more »
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Ford will shut factory doors in 2016
The writing had been on the wall for the Falcon for at least four years. In 2007 the company announced it would build the Ford Focus small car alongside the Falcon in 2011. But it axed those local production plans for Focus in 2009. The Focus small car might from CarsGuide.com (Australia) Read more »
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Road test: 2012 Ford Focus
2012 Ford Focus gets a ground-up redesign and takes on a new role in Ford's product lineup. No longer can Focus be called the "small Ford", as that distinction has been handed over to the new Fiesta, and a more sophisticated and polished new Focus is striving from Driving Canada Read more »
