Ford gives the Focus a facelift. During the bijpunt session of its 3.5-year-old volume model, a lot remains with the old, although the Focus will be fitted with a completely new front.
Highlights
- Completely new front
- Standard LED headlights, matrix LED optional
- Luggage compartment Wagon improved
- Now also automatic in combination with mild hybrid engines
- 280 hp ST remains
Recently Ford put the Fiesta on the cutting table and now its bigger brother is undergoing a similar facelift. That’s one by the book. Good news: the European facelift of the Focus has nothing to do with the touch-up session that the Chinese version underwent earlier this year.
design
Just like the sharpened Fiesta, the Ford Focus gets a completely revised front that, despite the fact that almost everything is new, broadly resembles that of the original presented in 2018. Ford gives the Focus completely new, meaner looking and standard adaptive LED technology equipped headlamps with a different line especially at the top. The top of the binoculars now consists of a straight line with no kink, which gives the car a more aggressive look. The differently shaped viewers also ensure that Ford had to give the Focus a new hood. The fog lamps are now housed in the headlamps. Matrix LED headlights are optional.
Ford Focus Active Wagon
More new to the front? Of course. The complete grille has a different shape and is now made up of vertical bars in the crossover-like Active versions. The bumper work is new on all Focus flavors, with the Focus ST copies of course the sportiest eyes and the Active variants should give the Focus a more adventurous appearance. The Ford logo is no longer between the grille and the hood in all versions, but is given a place in the middle of the grille.
Ford Focus ST-Line
Those who liked the back of the current Focus, can safely watch the buttocks of the renewed version. At the rear, Ford hardly makes any changes. The taillights retain their shape but have a new LED signature, but the tailgate and even the rear bumpers remain unchanged. Also with the Active and ST.
Ford Focus
Interior
Ford has also used the velvet brush of innovation in the interior of the Focus. The Focus has been available with digital instruments since the middle of last year. However, Ford will now give the Focus – depending on the chosen version – a 13.2 inch large screen that belongs to the infotainment system. That system now runs on SYNC4 and is therefore of a new generation. It houses more functions and that means that Ford has been able to reduce the island of buttons under the ventilation grilles in the center console. In the versions with that large screen, the physical keys around the radio and the rotary knob to adjust the audio volume have also disappeared.
Ford Focus
To elect
Ford will deliver the new Focus as Titanium, ST-Line and Active. Those flavors can be dressed up with an X package and a Vignale package. Indeed, Vignale is no longer a separate version, just like with the new one. The Focus is introduced to new safety systems such as Blind Spot Assist. Also new: the luggage compartment of the Focus Wagon has a part that can be separated from the rest of the luggage compartment by means of a ‘gate’ and that is easier to clean. Handy for when you wear your shoes and would rather not have them dirty the entire luggage compartment. Saves another plastic bag, shall we say. According to Ford, the rest of the luggage compartment of the Focus Wagon is finished with fabric that was previously only used in the Vignale version.
Ford Focus ST
engines
There is also news regarding engines. Ford already supplied the Focus with 100 hp, 125 hp, 150 hp Ecoboost engines, petrol blocks of which the 125 hp and 150 hp versions were also available with an automatic transmission in addition to a manual six-speed gearbox. In addition, since mid-2020, Ford also had 125 hp and 155 hp mild-hybrid 1.0 Ecoboosts on the shelves, although you could only get them with a manual gearbox. Ford now also offers a seven-speed automatic transmission for those 48v mild-hybrid versions. The 150 hp Ecoboost does not seem to return and the automatic option for the non-mild-hybrid 125 hp Ecoboost also disappears. The ST retains its 280 hp and 420 Nm strong 2.3 petrol engine. New for that ST version is the Mean Green paint in these photos, the ST also gets new sports seats.
The European engine list also includes diesel engines, 95 hp, 120 hp and 150 hp 2.0 Ecoblue engines that are available with a six-speed manual transmission and an eight-speed automatic transmission. The 95 hp version will not come to our country. The first units will be delivered in the first quarter of 2022.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl