PASADENA, Calif. — Ford Motor Co. is aiming its new pocket rocket at Japanese car enthusiasts who spend thousands souping up their front-drive cars. The car is the 2002 Ford SVT Focus, a new under-$18 ...

Horse Sense:The SVT Focus is actually another world car. In Europe, the basic package will be sold under a different name. The result is the 7,500 produced in the United States are part of a ...

A landmark nameplate for the Ford Motor Company, the Cortina is many things to many people, especially in the United Kingdom because it was designed and primarily built there. This particular example ...

Fresh yet functional, Ford's popular Focus is a clever, slightly European styled entry-level vehicle available in a three-door wagon or four-door sedan. The latest to rush on to the Focus scene is ...

We recently put the SVT Focus through its paces on some winding mountain roads in Southern California. Our route twisted through the San Gabriel Mountains on Angeles Crest Highway and Angeles Forest ...

So there I was, in the driver's seat of a fairly pedestrian, garden-variety stock Ford Focus hatchback, lined up side-by-side on an empty street with a tuned-to-the-gills SVT Focus hatchback, engines ...

Performance pickups used to be a thing. From the Chevy 454 SS in the early 1990s to the sports car like performance the Toyota Tacoma X-Runner was throwing down in the early 2000s fast trucks had ...

Mention "Ford Focus" to a European and he'll probably think of a mud-splattered World Rally Championship (WRC) car sliding sideways through some forested two-track. Mention those same words to an ...

Once upon a time, Ford made sedans and fun stuff that was fairly accessible to most buyers. I'm not talking about vehicles like the Bronco and Raptor models. I mean stuff that wasn't priced into the ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...