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An all-new 2012 Ford Focus goes on sale early in 2011. Ford Motor Company revealed the upcoming Focus on the January 2010 North American International Auto Present in Detroit.

The 2012 Focus is a C-sized small automobile rife with new expertise, new powertrains and new buyer options, some of which are not supplied by different automobiles on this class. This is a enormous market section that accounts for 2 million units of manufacturing yearly and contains the Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sentra, Mazda three, and the upcoming Chevrolet Cruze. The Focus has been a big success for Ford since its initial launch in 1998, selling more than 9.2 million cars worldwide from manufacturing crops in Germany, Russia, Spain, the Philippines, China, South Africa, and Vietnam.

In the U.S., the Focus shall be out there in 5-door hatchback and four-door sedan versions. In Europe, the Focus is also out there as a three-door hatchback, including a 300-horsepower RS model.

The brand new Focus will be constructed around an entirely new Ford powertrain, starting with an all-aluminum 2.zero-liter four-cylinder engine that features each a Denso direct fuel injection system and TiVCT, twin unbiased variable camshaft timing, two options that, taken together, provide very smooth idle with excessive horsepower and torque numbers, in addition to glorious gasoline economic system and emissions efficiency, numbers not revealed on the moment. Preliminary power figures are a hundred and fifty five horsepower and a 145 foot-kilos of torque using a very high 12:1 compression ratio, beforehand appropriate only for racing engines. Afterward, there might be a turbocharged 1.6-liter EcoBoost model of this engine supplied to the performance-minded buyer, and nonetheless later, Ford could offer a typical-rail direct-injection diesel version, already slated for Europe, a hybrid version, and a battery electric version.          


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