PASADENA, Calif. — Ford Motor Co. is aiming its new pocket rocket at Japanese car enthusiasts who spend thousands souping up their front-drive cars. The car is the 2002 Ford SVT Focus, a new under-$18 ...

So there I was, in the driver's seat of a fairly pedestrian, garden-variety stock Ford Focus hatchback, lined up side-by-side on an empty street with a tuned-to-the-gills SVT Focus hatchback, engines ...

True, the huge gains in dynamic, accelerative, and qualitative performance happening at the exalted end of the motoring spectrum have trickled down, sprinkling their holy waters--chassis stiffness, ...

[This story originally appeared in the June 2003 issue of MotorTrend] The streets of America, as it turns out, are an equal-opportunity playground. Show up with the right look and hardware that says ...

A landmark nameplate for the Ford Motor Company, the Cortina is many things to many people, especially in the United Kingdom because it was designed and primarily built there. This particular example ...