SEMA 2007: Steeda Ford Focus Club Racer
click image above for high-res gallery of the Steeda Focus Club Racer
Steeda has had great success building Mustangs for the track, and it's applied its magic touch to the new Ford Focus to create a club racer version of the car. The suspension has been reworked with a fully adjustable Eibach coilover setup, and a Baer brake system ensures increased stopping cability. The 2.0-liter inline-4 has been pumped up with Steeda's cold air intake, cat-back exhaust system, and a performance tune. Visually, the Club Racer also gets a 3d Carbon Euro Series body kit, a custom black grille, a new front end, and Club Racer graphics. Does it make the new Focus better looking than its mishapen production counterpart? Actually, it does.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
John R 3:40PM (10/30/2007)
Yet still the "new" Focus does nothing for me. I don't think any tuning house can save this car.
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scooter 4:06PM (10/30/2007)
At least the rear bumper isn't hanging off the fenders by a 1/4 inch nearly all the way around like one of tow examples I saw at a local dealer's lot! Looks like
Steeda sweated the details...
Why, it took over a year and 20k miles for my '06 to have its body parts migrate to different areas.
Typesbad 3:42PM (10/30/2007)
Well you can definitely tell it's SEMA time. Everytime I click back to the main page, there is a new, overwrought and ugly image on the top of the page.
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ugg.tryptophan 5:35PM (10/30/2007)
and there all bathed in chrome
ryan 3:54PM (10/30/2007)
meh. it's better than what it was, that's for sure. but i couldn't afford steeda prices over the top of the car to make it financially viable.
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naggs 4:09PM (10/30/2007)
i have been hating on the focus as much as anyone but it really does look better in person
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nissanfreak87 4:13PM (10/30/2007)
yeah, but not enough
MasterCKO 4:21PM (10/30/2007)
I think that it's the black grill more than anything else that allows this car to look not-so-bad. The stupid chrome-ness just draws your attention to how ugly it is. On this car, you can notice on the mods and other details and see how much shaplier it is. Plus the lights on the Focus (even production) aren't that bad. It's just that you never notice them since you focus on the mess that is that chrome grill.
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k.w.a 4:44PM (10/30/2007)
i saw someone driving a Euro Focus in Ann Arbor last weekend...maybe a certain car company *ahem* is coming so their senses. (lets hope)
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Aki 5:32PM (10/30/2007)
Nope, still ugly. And I saw the sedan in person, still ugly as heck. Maybe Ford will realize when ppl say that they want the Euro Focus... that ppl really want the Euro Focus.
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catgirlshyla 5:57PM (10/30/2007)
I can has Euro-Spec focus plz??
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Tagg 6:14PM (10/30/2007)
Can we have one post with out the words " Euro Focus" because you are wasting your time and it sound like a broken record. Its not happening anytime soon so get over it.
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Jared 7:53PM (10/30/2007)
Tagg:
I disagree. The automakers monitor the enthusiast boards. It is important to keep beating up Ford about this early and often. They need to know that the redesign wasn't good enough, that the late rework of the redesign still isn't good enough, and that this grotesque SEMA special still isn't good enough.
If we keep beating it into them, maybe they'll think about it when they are designing he next Euro Focus and design it meet US standards as well.
catgirlshyla 5:45AM (10/31/2007)
*AHEM*
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Tagg 11:18AM (10/31/2007)
They are aready working on it, 2010 or 2011 there will be new world Focus. I know they monitor but the situation is already being addressed. It was posted here on Autoblog about 100 days ago and has been covered in the Automotive News 3 times in the last 2 months.
The other post shows how "cute" a child can be.
Jared 7:38PM (10/30/2007)
Lipstick on a pig.
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david damn 8:04PM (10/30/2007)
Other cars have a supermodel showing off it assets. Oh, but the ugly Focus... it gets a cheap podium that the car has to park its front tire on to keep it from falling over.
If it were a Euro Focus, I could stand next to it and the car would make me look like a supermodel. (30 year old male, skinny, balding)
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ender 12:03AM (10/31/2007)
Please, no stats... this is not yahoo chat.
Justin 1:08AM (10/31/2007)
oooh an intake, exhaust, body kit, brakes that probably don't shorten braking distances, and a coilover kit that might be decent. i can't wait to see the price tag on this looker. (that was all sarcasm in case you're wondering)
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ender 12:02AM (10/31/2007)
I vote for an official re-name: Steed Ford Focus Club Soda, because it's just as boring as a club soda.
Dear Ford,
Please give us the Focus RS. If you can't do that then just build a new sport-compact that doesn't completely suck.
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