New Ford Focus is about to market debut

In the spring of 2011 will start the third newly developed generation of the Ford Focus in Germany. The new Focus is available in three body styles to choose from: a sporty 5-door hatchback with, as an elegant four-door notchback and a 5-door wagon, which carries the name traditionally re tournament.

The new Focus is developed as a world car and is simultaneously in Europe and the U.S. market. whose management was in the hands of the Group's competence center for small and compact cars in Cologne Merkenich - - For his development, Ford has mobilized its global development resources.

At least ten different model lines and variants on the new, for the world market conceptioned C-segment-based architecture, which already provides a basis for 2012, up to two million vehicles a year. Now the next, third generation of the Focus stands clearly in focus. Ford will offer it globally in over 120 countries with a common-part rate of 80 percent.

The production is currently running on both sides of the Atlantic in the works of Saarlouis, and Michigan (USA). More than ten million copies worldwide since the Focus took the idea of the series in 1998, a buyer, the family of models has proven in many markets as a seller. The first two generations were in Germany and Spain as well as from the band in the U.S., Mexico, China, Taiwan, Russia, the Philippines, Vietnam and South Africa.

With the introduction of the new model, the company now proposes a new chapter in the history of the Focus. For the first time this car is based on a common architecture that was developed under a global perspective.

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