MOTOR Magazine Australia

02 FORD FOCUS ST

SUBTLETY CAN BE both a blessing and a curse. The ability to fly under the radar is a boon for many performance cars, earning them the fabled sleeper moniker and with it piles of praise. Others, like the Ford Focus ST, that operate without putting on a grandiose show, conversely go under-appreciated in the wider zeitgeist.

That’s before you consider the fact the ST stands slyly in a shadow cast by the previous generation Focus RS. The Orange Fury paint is as close as the Focus ST gets to being ‘shouty’

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