Monday, January 11, 2010

2011 Ford Focus Sedan International Auto Show

2011 Ford Focus Sedan
2011 Ford Focus Sedan front angle

The next-generation Ford Focus fabricated its common admission today at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. One of the key highlights is that Ford's new C-segment adversary with rivals such as the VW Golf / Jetta, Chevy Cruze, Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic, is that it will be about identical in all markets administration 80 per cent of its genitalia about the world. At Detroit, Ford showed off the five-door auto and four-door auto versions of the new all-around Focus. Both models allotment the aforementioned administration that marks the abutting change of Ford's active architectonics anatomy language. That translates to a crispier and added activating architectonics that combines administration appearance apparent in the new Fiesta and the European Mondeo. The aforementioned can be said about the Focus' autogenous architectonics that was previewed through the MPV variants of the car, the five-seat C-MAX (Europe) and seven-seat Grand C-MAX (Europe and North America).Ford says that one of the key elements of the autogenous is the affection of adroitness with the soft-touch abstracts and the best of trim all allowance to accord occupants "the activity that they are travelling in a higher-class car".

2011 Ford Focus Sedan
2011 Ford Focus Sedan
2011 Ford Focus Sedan side angle

The new Focus has been developed by a all-around team, led from the firm's European baby and average agent centre in Merkenich, abreast Cologne, Germany, with powertrain development spearheaded by the company's abstruse centre in Dunton, England Underneath, the 2011 Focus makes use of Ford's new mid-sized architecture. The aggregation claims that the Focus will accession the criterion in administration already added aggregate "outstanding council attention and alley acknowledgment with decidedly bigger clarification and ride control."

2011 Ford Focus Sedan interior
2011 Ford Focus Sedan interior

The 2011 Focus sticks with front-wheel drive, powered by a new ancestors of engines. European buyers will get 1.6-liter and 2.0-liter Ecoboost turbocharged petrol units as able-bodied as bigger Duratorq TDCi common-rail diesels alms reductions in ammunition burning amid 10 and 20 per cent over the approachable models.In North America, the Focus will be offered with a new 2.0-liter four-cylinder agent with Twin Independent Variable Camshaft Timing (Ti-VCT) and absolute bang (DI) carrying an estimated achievement of 155-horsepower and 145 ft.-lb. of torque. Depending on the market, the engines will be affiliated to either chiral gearboxes and Ford's new dual-clutch PowerShift six-speed automated manual advised to bear bigger ammunition abridgement than commensurable automatics. Production of the next-generation Ford Focus will activate accompanying in Europe and North America in backward 2010, with sales set to alpha globally in 2011. Ford said that antecedent assembly will be concentrated at the Saarlouis (Germany), Michigan (United States) and Chongqing (China) Assembly Plants. Within the abutting two to three years, the Focus ambit will aggrandize to accommodate a three-door hatchback, a station-wagon and absolutely possibly, a coupe-convertible model, admitting it charcoal to be apparent if these variants will be awash in all markets.