![]() The Titanium models have all the safety gear included as standard equipment, but, as mentioned before, the latest active driver aids can be optioned in the lower-grade models.Īll Focus variants come equipped with six airbags (with the exception of the RS when fitted with the optional Recaro seats) and have a five-star ANCAP crash rating. The Focus Trend with its 1.5-litre turbo charged four-cylinder, which features auto stop-start in heavy traffic, has a claimed average of 5.8L/100km when equipped with a six-speed manual transmission and 6.2L/100km with the automatic transmission. The ST and RS variants are marginally more expensive to maintain, but will be costlier to run with higher fuel consumption and insurance premiums.Īll Focus models are covered by a three-year/100,000km warranty and have 12 month/15,000km service intervals. The mainstream Focus models are pretty reasonable with Ford’s capped price servicing scheme costing from $300 for minor services and up to $650 for a major visit with a timing belt change (scheduled at eight years or 160,000km). The Focus RS is offered with a Performance Pack that includes lightweight alloys wrapped in sticky Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tyres as well as figure-hugging Recaro seats (that miss out on side airbags). There’s an optional Convenience Pack on the base-level Trend that brings automatic headlamps and wipers and ‘Follow me home’ lighting and another, the Technology Pack, that is also available on the Sport and the ST which adds autonomous emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assistance and a blind spot monitor. The Trend and Sport hatches are the only Focus variants offered with a choice of transmissions.Īll come equipped with an eight-inch colour touchscreen and Ford’s latest Sync3 connectivity system with sat nav, voice control, Bluetooth and smartphone integration, while Titanium models have up-to-the-minute safety systems such as automated emergency braking, blind spot monitor, rear cross traffic alert and parking assistance. ![]() The base-level Focus Trend and flagship Focus Titanium are offered as either a hatch or a sedan, while the Sport, ST and RS are exclusively available only with the five-door body style.īoth four-door models, and the Titanium hatch, come only with a six-speed automatic transmission, while the ST and RS are exclusively paired with a six-speed manual. There’s a decent spread of Focus variants to suit all tastes, across three trim levels in the mainstream models, with a pair of sizzling hot hatches for boy racers at the top-end. The Focus is the blue oval’s bread-and-butter small car, offered as both as a sedan and hatchback, and one of the most under rated vehicles in the hotly-contested class.
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