Ford is pulling the plug on its famous family hatchback, but can the flagship ST Edition give it a good send off? Cameron Richards explores.

It's been a minute since Ford had an RS offering in the United States. The Focus ST still lives in Europe, albeit for a short time until it's axed later this year. That said, the ST badge isn’t dead ...

Sort of. With barely more than a year of production left, Ford introduced the Focus ST Edition in 2024 as a de facto grand finale. Think half circuit hero and half school run chariot, fashioned ...

Sources within Ford’s UK team have also told us they’d like to see the firm’s sporty sub-brands make a comeback. Ford will soon have just one ST model in its line up when the Focus ST ...

Back in late ’21, we were all fighting for seat time in a Maverick. Given the choice, though, most of us preferred the standard front-wheel-drive hybrid to the all-gas and all-wheel-drive 2.0 ...

But is it too little too late? Ford has been struggling with its electric car line-up, and it hopes the Puma Gen-E is the car to change that. The Mustang Mach-E grabbed headlines at launch ...

If driving thrills are at the top of your list of priorities but you still need a thoroughly practical family car, the Ford Focus ST ... even find the ST too quiet now, although you do still get some ...

Always partial to a hot hatch, this morning’s arrival was good news for me as a Ford Focus ... this would show up best, but it’s amazing how much confidence this set-up offers for road driving. One of ...

So we learn that the exhaust flow rate ... an affordable hero, and the Focus ST is bound for retirement. The Civic Type R stands above both of those as the best modern hot hatch, and there ...