The Ford Focus is a 3/5-door hatchback / 4-door Sedan (automobile) / sedan/saloon / 5-door station wagon / estate / 2-door coupé / coupe (US) / 2-door retractable hardtop / coupé-cabriolet (Europe) from Ford, built from 1998 to 2025, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. Under the bonnet: diesel engine.
The background
The Ford Focus is a compact car (small family car, or C-segment in Europe) manufactured by Ford from 1998 until 2025. It was created under Alexander Trotman's Ford 2000 plan, which aimed to globalize model development and sell one compact vehicle worldwide.
The original Focus was primarily designed by Ford of Europe's German and British teams. Production of the fourth generation Focus began in 2018 in Germany and China. In 2025, Ford announced that the Focus would no longer be built, in line with an announcement made in 2022.
The engineering
Power comes from diesel engine. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Ford Escort (Europe, North America and Argentina) / Ford Laser (Asia and Oceania); its successor was the Ford Kuga (indirect); assembly was at Saarlouis. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Cadillac Escalade, the Audi TT, the Peugeot 206 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Ford stablemates include the Ford 021C and the Ford Escort.
What it costs now
The money question first: $5,800–$15,400 is the typical asking range today, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,975–$12,215 a year. Insurance sits around $960–$1,710 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.