Ford Focus News

Ford debuts a new advertising campaign for the Focus Electric, a short, high-energy "By Design" spot for the EV.

For the first part in Ford's new documentary series, Ken Block gets behind the wheel of a preproduction Focus RS to see how it drives with Blue Oval Product Development Vice President Raj Nair.

Ford gives fans a peek behind the curtain at the development of the 2016 Focus RS in a new eight-part documentary series. It runs from early prototype engineering through to the management review.

Now is the time to build your perfect, ideal Ford Focus RS, as the Blue Oval has introduced the configurator for its hardcore hot hatchback.

The 2016 Ford Focus RS starts at $36,605 in the US, and buyers get to race to 62 miles per hour in just 4.7 seconds all the way to a 165 mph top speed.

Ford is keeping up with the war on yellow sac spiders in the fuel vapor lines with an improved shield against them. The latest one sees its first global application in the 2016 Focus RS.

To celebrate the launch of Forza Motorsport 6, Ford has The Stig driving a new Focus RS with a special fan-designed livery to the Gamescom expo in Cologne.

Ford is giving the 2016 Focus RS a workout on a test track in Belgium before taking it to the Goodwood Festival of Speed to challenge the hill climb there.

Ford took the US debut of its Focus RS to announce a US on-sale date, and show off one of the super-hot hatch's production colors, Nitrous Blue.

Ford promises to more than a dozen new performance models by 2020, and this is the latest: the third-generation Focus RS, complete with 2.3-liter EcoBoost four channeling over 315 horsepower to all four wheels to give the latest breed of hot hatches a run for their money.

Here's your first look at the new 2016 Ford Focus RS – the Blue Oval's hottest hatch yet. The fierce little compact leaked onto the web ahead of its official February 3 debut.

Ford's new video teaser for the upcoming Focus RS shows some of the test cars doing some big slides in the wet and dry. The clip also announces that the Blue Oval's latest hot hatch is being unveiled on February 3.

"We are transforming our approach to performance." – Mark Fields

Rumors about the forthcoming Ford Focus RS are flourishing into what sounds like a very impressive new hot hatch. The latest scuttlebutt gives the first indication about when we might see a few of these fast Focuses on roads here in the US.

Ford's current hot hatch siblings the Fiesta ST and Focus ST are already two pretty great entries into the segment, but there's always a desire for a little more. Thankfully, it looks like the Blue Oval is ready to satiate that need because it's continuing to test the even more powerful Focus RS around Europe. According to our spy

Sitting down at the pre-drive briefing with Ford engineers ahead of sampling the refreshed 2015 Focus, water bottles clinked as we wet our whistles before Q&A. While pouring a glass, we noticed something stamped on the bottle label: "1L." One liter. We were palming the exact displacement of the EcoBoost engine our group was about to drive. This

Ford has quite a party ready for the Goodwood Festival of Speed starting on June 27. Not only is the 2015 Mustang going to be driving in front of the European public for the first time, the Blue Oval is also unveiling its 2015 refresh for the Focus ST.

Okay Ford, this is what we like to see. One of our intrepid spy photographers has captured a vehicle that we weren't even sure would see the light of day – the next Focus RS. While this is pretty clearly a mule based on the current Focus ST, as our spy points out, there are a number of giveaways about this hot hatch's true nat

Ford has, for at least the second year in a row, teamed up with techno promoter Paxahau and a couple of artists to make music in recognition of the Detroit Movement music festival. This time, Movement performers Ataxia and Secrets were selected by Ford, and were invited to spend some time at the automaker's Michigan Assembly Plant, which gives birt

That handsome fellow you see above is the 2015 Ford Focus sedan. We liked the looks of the 2014 Focus, and the updates for 2015 only improve things to our eyes, with the adoption of the Aston Martin-inspired grille that has been permeating Ford's lineup these last few years. Sweeping, slightly bulbous headlamps join a revised, more demure lower grille opening t

Ford has made an art of deeper-than-normal midlife updates since the 2010 Fusion, a strategy that has allowed it to keep models looking fresher in showrooms for longer without needing full redesigns. Instead of slight touchups to light fixtures, new paint colors and perhaps new wheel patterns, Ford has been digging deeper, with significant sheetmetal changes and very different front-end looks, along with an increased emphasis on new in-car techn