2014 Ford Focus Owners Manual - The Ford Focus was designed to meet the high demands of small car buyers today. It's fun, attractive, well-equipped, but affordable. It's changed the nameplate's image, from unremarkable to best in class, in several ways. It's also our 2012 Best Car To obtain winner, just as much because of its trend-leading features as for its excellent front-drive handling. And also this year, it's being accompanied by a seriously enthusiastic Focus ST hot hatch.
The 2013 Ford Focus has a mixture of creases and curves in the sheetmetal, while its aggressive front-end design and thin front grille can be a new Ford design cue shared with the 2013 Escape. The instrument-panel design doesn't whatsoever turn back inside, although some may find it overly swoopy and almost too stylized, its vertically-oriented vents and pleasant surface scrulpting look original inside a crowded class of look-alike small cars.
Ford offers two body styles for that 2013 Focus—a four-door sedan or five-door hatchback—together with several trims to pay many expectations, but we discover the main focus is likely to look finest in the very best Titanium trim, where all the details are very well coordinated.
Inside, the Focus can feel similar to a European sport sedan than the usual budget-priced hatchback. Add the upgraded sport seats in the Titanium model and you may find best of all support as opposed to already impressive base front seats. Whether you decide on the sedan or hatchback, you will get back seat accommodations that are virtually exactly the same, with adequate legroom and headroom to match even those over six feet. While using leather upholstery, there is absolutely no skimping on look and feel with the spine; you simply won't get mid-size comfort, however , there is enough comfort back there for some six-footers. Our most significant complaint concerns the board design, which seemingly cuts into front passenger knee space especially.
Both the.0-liter direct-injected four-cylinder engine that powers a lot of the lineup produces 160 horsepower and 146 pound-feet of torque; it's combined with whether five-speed manual gearbox or six-speed PowerShift dual-clutch automatic. But what's new for 2013 can be a high-performance Focus ST variant that will get to 60 mph in only 6.3 seconds and also to a top speed of 155 mph. Packing a 240-hp turbocharged EcoBoost four and also a six-speed manual—no automatic—it calls in the market to serious driving enthusiasts.
Performance in the Focus ST is a rush, as you may guess; but it is surprisingly well-engineered, with none of the coarse or twitchy tuner-car believe affects like the Mazdaspeed3 and Mitsubishi Ralliart. Are you aware that other countries in the Focus lineup, choose the manual gearbox you may have among the best-driving small cars from the segment. You should rev the engine to access its perky side, but it's smooth, with a nice linkage.
The PowerShift dual-clutch automatic drive in the main does a great job keeping the revs up close to hand—nonetheless it is usually rough on occasion at low speeds—and there is an activity mode or else you can control shifts on your own after a little +/- button along the side of the shift knob. The attention handles as well as—or superior to—by far the most deft handler inside the class, the Mazda3, which has a suspension it doesn't crash and bang over rough transitions. Ford's electrical power steering mechanism provides nice weighting also it performs well, providing precise control but is not transmitting much feel with the road.
(Ladies low-volume Ford Focus Electric model offered in when compared to a dozen U.S. markets. It's built on the same production line as other Focus variants, but dispenses while using petrol engine and transmission, replacing all of them a lithium-ion battery pack that runs a motor. The EPA rates the main focus Electric at 76 miles of range, and its particular price including delivery starts at $39,995. Ford definitely seems to be only lukewarm on its sophisticated Focus; throughout 2012, it sold just 685 of them nationwide. The 2013 Ford Focus Electric continues unchanged through the 2012 model.)
Safety-wise, the main focus holds strong; it's mostly of the compact sedans to obtain earned both a five-star NCAP Overall Score and IIHS Top Safety Pick status.
The target still is offered in the cost-conscious $16,995 Focus S base model, however the true focus is toward those well-equipped, tech-loaded upper trims much like the SEL and Titanium. A loaded Titanium can hit $28k, however , these models include MyFord Touch, an upgraded ten-speaker Sony audio system, HD Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, sport seats, a hobby suspension, and sport wheels with summer performance tires.
Active Park Assist, which assists you steer right parallel-parking space, is optional in upper-level Focus models and is also one of the segment-exclusive tech features. MyFord Touch, with text-to-voice capability and WiFi capability, can also be available.
Download here 2014 Ford Focus Owners Manual
The 2013 Ford Focus has a mixture of creases and curves in the sheetmetal, while its aggressive front-end design and thin front grille can be a new Ford design cue shared with the 2013 Escape. The instrument-panel design doesn't whatsoever turn back inside, although some may find it overly swoopy and almost too stylized, its vertically-oriented vents and pleasant surface scrulpting look original inside a crowded class of look-alike small cars.
Ford offers two body styles for that 2013 Focus—a four-door sedan or five-door hatchback—together with several trims to pay many expectations, but we discover the main focus is likely to look finest in the very best Titanium trim, where all the details are very well coordinated.
Inside, the Focus can feel similar to a European sport sedan than the usual budget-priced hatchback. Add the upgraded sport seats in the Titanium model and you may find best of all support as opposed to already impressive base front seats. Whether you decide on the sedan or hatchback, you will get back seat accommodations that are virtually exactly the same, with adequate legroom and headroom to match even those over six feet. While using leather upholstery, there is absolutely no skimping on look and feel with the spine; you simply won't get mid-size comfort, however , there is enough comfort back there for some six-footers. Our most significant complaint concerns the board design, which seemingly cuts into front passenger knee space especially.
Both the.0-liter direct-injected four-cylinder engine that powers a lot of the lineup produces 160 horsepower and 146 pound-feet of torque; it's combined with whether five-speed manual gearbox or six-speed PowerShift dual-clutch automatic. But what's new for 2013 can be a high-performance Focus ST variant that will get to 60 mph in only 6.3 seconds and also to a top speed of 155 mph. Packing a 240-hp turbocharged EcoBoost four and also a six-speed manual—no automatic—it calls in the market to serious driving enthusiasts.
Performance in the Focus ST is a rush, as you may guess; but it is surprisingly well-engineered, with none of the coarse or twitchy tuner-car believe affects like the Mazdaspeed3 and Mitsubishi Ralliart. Are you aware that other countries in the Focus lineup, choose the manual gearbox you may have among the best-driving small cars from the segment. You should rev the engine to access its perky side, but it's smooth, with a nice linkage.
The PowerShift dual-clutch automatic drive in the main does a great job keeping the revs up close to hand—nonetheless it is usually rough on occasion at low speeds—and there is an activity mode or else you can control shifts on your own after a little +/- button along the side of the shift knob. The attention handles as well as—or superior to—by far the most deft handler inside the class, the Mazda3, which has a suspension it doesn't crash and bang over rough transitions. Ford's electrical power steering mechanism provides nice weighting also it performs well, providing precise control but is not transmitting much feel with the road.
(Ladies low-volume Ford Focus Electric model offered in when compared to a dozen U.S. markets. It's built on the same production line as other Focus variants, but dispenses while using petrol engine and transmission, replacing all of them a lithium-ion battery pack that runs a motor. The EPA rates the main focus Electric at 76 miles of range, and its particular price including delivery starts at $39,995. Ford definitely seems to be only lukewarm on its sophisticated Focus; throughout 2012, it sold just 685 of them nationwide. The 2013 Ford Focus Electric continues unchanged through the 2012 model.)
Safety-wise, the main focus holds strong; it's mostly of the compact sedans to obtain earned both a five-star NCAP Overall Score and IIHS Top Safety Pick status.
The target still is offered in the cost-conscious $16,995 Focus S base model, however the true focus is toward those well-equipped, tech-loaded upper trims much like the SEL and Titanium. A loaded Titanium can hit $28k, however , these models include MyFord Touch, an upgraded ten-speaker Sony audio system, HD Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, sport seats, a hobby suspension, and sport wheels with summer performance tires.
Active Park Assist, which assists you steer right parallel-parking space, is optional in upper-level Focus models and is also one of the segment-exclusive tech features. MyFord Touch, with text-to-voice capability and WiFi capability, can also be available.
Download here 2014 Ford Focus Owners Manual