2008 Ford Focus Range
October 15, 2007 by George Skentzos
The new German designed and engineered Ford Focus will make its way into Australian showrooms this year with increased safety levels, a new diesel engine, revised styling and no less than three body configurations.
Accompanying the hatch are also a versatile sedan model and summer coupe-cabriolet.
New exterior door mirrors incorporating a turn indicator are standard on all models and a new front bumper, as on the Focus Coupé-Cabriolet, has been incorporated across the range – excluding the performance orientated XR5 Turbo.
All models in the Focus range – CL, LX, TDCi, Zetec, Ghia and Cabriolet – now feature dual front airbags and ABS with EBD as standard equipment.
Driver and front passenger side airbags are added to the LX, TDCi, Zetec, Ghia and Cabriolet specification as is Dynamic Stability Control (DSC), Traction Control (TC) and Emergency Brake Assist (EBA) as standard.
The new 2.0-litre turbo diesel five-door model, which features a six-speed manual transmission becomes the first diesel-powered passenger car in the Ford Australia line-up.
“Today’s diesel technology is state-of-the-art and, in some aspects of motoring such as fuel efficiency and range, can provide performance benefits over and above petrol engines.” President Marketing and Sales, Mark Winslow.
Three new body-styles have been introduced: a new Zetec sedan with five-speed manual or optional four-speed automatic transmission, a Ghia hatchback with a four-speed automatic transmission, and finally a coupe-cabriolet with five-speed manual or optional four-speed automatic transmission.
The Focus Cabriolet has been designed in conjunction with Pininfarina, the same group who brought you the Ferrari 599 and Maserati GranTurismo.
The new Cabriolet is powered by the 2.0-litre Duratec four-cylinder petrol engine, which produces 107kW of power and 185Nm of torque which will return 7.5-litres per 100km on the manual and just 8.3-litres per 100km with the optional automatic.
“Focus Coupé-Cabriolet is an exciting, dynamic vehicle which offers sophisticated European styling in a highly desirable package and further extends the widening appeal of the Ford brand,” said Ford Australia President Tom Gorman.
The two piece hard-top roof retracts fully into the luggage compartment at the press of a button in just 29 seconds. A luggage separator blind will prevent the roof from retracting unless it is pulled across the luggage compartment to prevent the roof from folding on top of items stowed in the rear of the car.
The premium nature of the cabriolet reflects on its creature comforts which include fully automatic dual zone climate control, cruise control, automatic headlights, automatic wipers, heated power mirrors, glove box with cooling function and a Sony six-disc CD audio system with eight speakers.
“The enhancements introduced across the new Focus range add to its desirability and confirm Focus as one of the safest, most versatile and fun to drive small car models available in Australia.”
With so much choice, there is a Focus for every occasion.
Pricing
Focus CL – $19,990
Focus Ghia – $29,490
Focus Coupé-Cabriolet – $45,490 (Manual), $47,490 (Automatic)
Options
CL Safety Pack – $1,600
LX/TDCi Safety Pack – $1,300
Curtain Airbags – $400
Print it: 
Pack of morons as seen them in operation and organising Missile.
This is a political chat site now?
Just for a moment it was !
wow…i cant believe how such a thread can veer off topic come back…veer off again…and eventually come back…
must be a car thread!
Yes John I agree wholeheartedly. What would you say is the exterior tweaking and enhancements?
Get over politics now and back to the car.
There should be a coup’e-cabriolet XR5 Turbo, now that would be good, even though I won’t want one because they are just girls cars only. Falcon is more for me.
My views are that the front lights and its bumper bar design has raised the aesthetic appeal quite significantly. Its symmetry, flow and proportions are nice, so much so the overall look and balance of the car now when compared to its predecessor is light years ahead.
Hey ME, yeah more a shiela’s car but hey at least with Mondeo and this update will pinch sales off Holden and Toyota and Ford is in a great position as easier where Ford comes from rather then be in the so called bulletproof always reliable Toyotas!
At least with my name change Iam known WORLDWIDE and it is dam easier to type it in! Col. Klink in the army comedy shows he was in think was a fat bugger with a helmet with spike on it wasn’t he???
…Turbo will come and so will the FPR enhanced versions!
KFC, I think you mean Shiltz as the fat man with the helmet. (or however you spell it)
Yeah, he was that.
I will open up a subject topic and want to guage what people think (please comment without smartalec responses too):
Q/ With all the SUVS and pseudo pretend big 4WD’s or big vans do you think that there should be less on the road as they are more unecomical the conventional wagons or the like? These vehicles put unecessary strain on petroluem usage and increase in green gases / pollution and as most on bitumen (not off road) what can be done about it?
All Iam trying to guage is what is important, is it small cars we are heading to like this Focus or is it other way? We seem to always revert back to HERO cars as being like the pinnacle as well?
Ok looks identical to current focus (very subtle styling changes) and the convertible is ugly. If your gonna spend $45k for that, your 3/4 of the way their…. just get a 350z convertible.
Or not even that, 2nd hand Z with not many kms for the same price…. 50x better looking…..50x better performance.
styling changes? what styling changes?
i dont think they have done any i dont know why people have suggested they have moved headlights or what ever.
missile yeah i know the perception of “oldies” car with a fairmont, but i have seen some damn nice fairmonts around.i would have to at least throw some nice wheels on it. thats all it takes to turn it into a sportster.
great example is an EF fairmont. ive seen plenty where they drop them on their belly and throw some nice wheels on and hey presto they look pretty damn hot. i say EF because i reckon the front grill looks better than the EL grill
Will it be auto though? What model Fairmont?
To ‘Me’ from yesterday at 10:19pm: What’s the problem with the key lock on the bonnet? I rented an old model Zetec in Wales and found it to be quite a sensible idea. It beats reaching your hand under the bonnet to find that damn elusive leaver. And let’s be honest, how often do you actually open your bonnet? Once every few months at most.
If you want a stupid invention, try using the ridiculous electronic indicator on a new Astra. That’s what I’d call an every-day annoyance!
id prob go BA or BF fairmont. yep it would have to be auto. i think manuals woould be almost non existant in fairmont form. manual falcons are hard to find ive had 3 manual falcons so you notice how many are autos when you have one that isnt
Fil…
What I mean by the way that it’s bad about the badge is it should be somthing “to stop to look at and like” because it’s a Ford. But that badge system means that it’s not an offical badge.
yawnnnnnnnnnnnnn.Autosss
So find her a manual anyway or an XR8 ………
SNOZZZZZZZZZZZZ,depends what you like I guess,too slow for me!
The Focus CC looks crap, it doesn’t have the stance or quality euro BMW look of the Astra Twin-Top.
The Focus I saw at the motor show looked cheap + nasty.
Does your name mean “FOOL” or F%CK”head ???? Cabriolet isn’t everyone’s cuppa tea. astra and Focus are about on par. Oh but I forgot the Focus has a Ford badge so any holden biased wankers are gonna put the boot in.
“Four letter word ‘F’”, It’s not ment to take on BMW. DickHead!
Hey Andrew ……try Tassie……….people like manuals there!
Four letter word begining with “F”…
F Stands for FUKK your self!!!
Go back to “Holdenwoo toilet forums” better than been a one off person that comes here to just taunt us all.
Go to the Holden forum and tell them that Holdenwoo looks like SH*T. C’MON, C’MON GIRL!! YOU CAN DO IT, IT’S ONLY LIFE THERES NOTHING TOO BAD, IT’S JUST I’M SEEING THOUGH IT FROM THE INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WoW!!! that girl in the car is realy small or that car is really big, she looks really funny. hee hee hee! shes a midgit..its a migits car of choice!!!