Ford Focus Features

If you are a car enthusiast, what you see when you open your garage door should impress you, and the facelifted third-generation Focus does that and more. The Focus entered the market ambitiously in 2012. It was then facelifted in 2014 according to customer requests. With the facelift, the Focus, which experienced the biggest change in its front, resembles Aston Martin with its trapezoidal grille, and looks powerful with its muscular hood and bumper design. At the rear, the taillight cluster is slightly smaller, while a new trunk lid is used on sedans and a spoiler on hatchbacks. Like other Fords, the Focus has a very simple and useful cockpit. With the touchscreen on the cockpit, you can access your phone, music system, and navigation. The quality of the materials used in the interior is acceptable at the class standards. Although the living space offered by the Focus is not very ambitious, it does not fall below the segment average. Compared to its previous generation, the Ford Focus offers better insulation quality. Although the Focus is not very successful on bad roads due to its stiff suspension, it more than compensates for this handicap with cornering limits that will satisfy many people.

Technical Specifications

The PowerShift transmission used in Ford vehicles performs very efficiently with the engines it is combined with. In manual transmission, having 6 gears helps the driver in economical use. The Ford Focus is sold in our country with sedan, station wagon, and hatchback body styles. The Focus features the 1.0 L EcoBoost 125 PS with 170 Nm of torque, which has received the engine of the year award three years in a row, with manual transmission only, and the 1.6 L TI VCT 125 PS with 159 Nm of torque with manual and PowerShift transmission in sedan and hatchback body styles. You can only get the most preferred diesel automatic combination in our country with the 1.5 TDCi 120 PS, and the combined fuel consumption for this combination is around 5 liters. You can get the other diesel option, the 1.6 L TDCi 115 PS engine, with manual options only. The trunk volumes of the Focus are 316 liters for the hatchback version, 421 liters for the sedan version, and 476 liters for the station wagon.

Prices and Market Evaluation

The Ford Focus has a very wide price range, varying between 64,000 and 108,000 Turkish Lira. You can reach the Focus HB 1.6 Trend X package for 64,600 TL. Those who want to be innovative and prefer gasoline engines can reach the 1.0 L HB or sedan Titanium packages for 87,600 TL. In diesel engine options, prices are a bit higher. You can own the 1.6 TDCi HB and sedan Style packages for 89,680 TL. Prices can go up to 105,850 TL for the 1.5 TDCi HB and sedan Titanium PowerShift packages and 108,220 TL for the 1.5 TDCi SW Titanium PowerShift package. It has competitive prices against its rivals in its segment. If you want to own this vehicle at more affordable prices, you can turn to the used car market. The Focus has a wide used car market. The prices of the Focus in the used market vary between 50,000 and 105,000 Turkish Lira.

Ford Focus 2017 Features

We would be pleased to see the technological features found in Ford's higher-segment vehicles in the Focus in the coming years. The 180-degree front camera system found in the Ford Edge is one of them. Due to increasing exchange rates next year, car prices will increase, and the prices of the Focus will also increase slightly. If the Focus continues with this momentum in renewal and development, we can easily say that good Focus models await us.

Overview of the Focus

The technological accumulation in the Focus is at a level that will set the standards for its segment. The automatic parking system offered in the Focus includes not only parallel parking but also perpendicular parking and parallel park exit systems. The second-generation SYNC in-car communication system on the center console is offered with an 8-inch high-definition touchscreen, and we can use this screen with an advanced voice control system. In addition, you can optionally get MyKey, Active City Stop, Lane Keeping Aid, Lane Departure Warning, Blind Spot Warning, and Cross Traffic Alert. Ford expects sales worthy of the title of the world's best-selling car from the Focus, which is Ford's best-selling model globally.