Ford Focus

The Ford Focus was Ford's global compact car, sold from 1998 to 2025 in hatchback, sedan, wagon and a few other forms. It came out of a plan to develop a single small car for the whole world, was designed mostly by Ford of Europe's German and British teams, and replaced the Escort in Europe. It won the 1999 European Car of the Year award, had performance ST and RS versions, and was sold in North America until 2018. This site gives every generation and every model year its own page, in 4 generations: the first generation, C170 (1998 to 2004 model years); the second generation, C307 (2005 to 2010 model years); the third generation, C346 (2011 to 2017 model years); the fourth generation, C519 (2018 to 2025 model years).