Ford Focus, the Glossary
The Ford Focus is a compact car (C-segment in Europe) manufactured by Ford Motor Company since 1999.[1]
Table of Contents
70 relations: Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, Argentina, Auto China, Bathurst 12 Hour, Brembo, C-segment, Carlos Sainz Sr., China Touring Car Championship, Cockermouth, Colin McRae, Cologne, Compact car, Corporate average fuel economy, Coupe, Crossover (automobile), Design language, European Car of the Year, Focus (German magazine), Ford Escort (Europe), Ford Escort WRC, Ford Fiesta (fifth generation), Ford Fiesta RS WRC, Ford Focus RS WRC, Ford Kinetic Design, Ford Laser, Ford Mondeo, Ford Motor Argentina, Ford Motor Company, Ford of Europe, Ford Sync, Ford World Rally Team, Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout, Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout, Fuel injection, Hatchback, Hubert Burda Media, James Nash (racing driver), Limited-slip differential, Liquefied petroleum gas, M-Sport, Malcolm Wilson (rally driver), Marcus Grönholm, Markko Märtin, Mikko Hirvonen, Monte Carlo Rally, Oreste Berta, Rally de Portugal, Rallying, Retractable hardtop, Rose Mary Farenden, ... Expand index (20 more) »
- Cars powered by transverse 4-cylinder engines
Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman
Alexander James Trotman, Baron Trotman (22 July 1933 – 25 April 2005) was a British-born businessman who served as the CEO of Ford Motor Company from 1993 to 1998.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Auto China
Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, Beijing Motor Show or Auto China is an auto show held biennially in Beijing, China since 1990.
Bathurst 12 Hour
The Bathurst 12 Hour, currently known as the Repco Bathurst 12 Hour for sponsorship reasons, is an annual endurance race for GT and production cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, in Bathurst, Australia.
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Brembo
Brembo N.V. is an Italian manufacturer of automotive parts that most notably produces brakes and rims, especially for high-performance cars and motorcycles.
C-segment
The C-segment is the 3rd category of the European segments for passenger cars and is described as "medium cars".
Carlos Sainz Sr.
Carlos Sainz Cenamor (born 12 April 1962) is a Spanish rally driver.
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China Touring Car Championship
The China Touring Car Championship (CTCC) is a touring car racing series based in China and sanctioned by Lisheng Sports.
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Cockermouth
Cockermouth is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England, so named because it is at the confluence of the River Cocker as it flows into the River Derwent.
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Colin McRae
Colin Steele McRae, (5 August 1968 – 15 September 2007), was a Scottish rally driver.
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Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
Compact car
Compact car is a vehicle size class—predominantly used in North America—that sits between subcompact cars and mid-size cars. Ford Focus and Compact car are compact cars.
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Corporate average fuel economy
Corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards are regulations in the United States, first enacted by the United States Congress in 1975, after the 1973–74 Arab Oil Embargo, to improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks (trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles) produced for sale in the United States.
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Coupe
A coupe or coupé is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors.
Crossover (automobile)
A crossover, crossover SUV, or crossover utility vehicle (CUV) is a type of automobile with an increased ride height that is built on unibody chassis construction shared with passenger cars, as opposed to traditional sport utility vehicles (SUV), which are built on a body-on-frame chassis construction similar to pickup trucks.
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Design language
A design language or design vocabulary is an overarching scheme or style that guides the design of a complement of products or architectural settings, creating a coherent design system for styling.
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European Car of the Year
The European Car of the Year (ECOTY) award is an international Car of the Year award established in 1964 by a collective of automobile magazines from different countries in Europe.
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Focus (German magazine)
Focus (stylized in all caps) is a German-language news magazine published by Hubert Burda Media.
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Ford Escort (Europe)
The Ford Escort is a small family car that was manufactured by Ford of Europe from 1968 until 2000. Ford Focus and Ford Escort (Europe) are 2000s cars, front-wheel-drive vehicles, sedans, station wagons and touring cars.
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Ford Escort WRC
Ford Escort WRC is a rally vehicle based on the Ford Escort RS Cosworth with World Rally Car homologation.
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Ford Fiesta (fifth generation)
The Ford Fiesta Mk5 is the fifth generation of the Ford Fiesta supermini built in Europe between April 2002 and 2008. Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta (fifth generation) are 2010s cars and front-wheel-drive vehicles.
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Ford Fiesta RS WRC
The Ford Fiesta RS WRC is the World Rally Car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport for use in the World Rally Championship 2011–2016.
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Ford Focus RS WRC
The Ford Focus RS WRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford Europe and M-Sport and based on the Ford Focus Climate 2-litre production hatchback, developed to compete in the World Rally Championship.
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Ford Kinetic Design
Kinetic Design is the name given to a style of automobile design used by Ford Motor Company for many of its passenger vehicles in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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Ford Laser
The Ford Laser is a compact car, originally a subcompact car in the first three generations, which was sold by Ford in Asia, Oceania, and parts of South America and Africa. Ford Focus and Ford Laser are 2000s cars, compact cars, front-wheel-drive vehicles, sedans and station wagons.
Ford Mondeo
The Ford Mondeo is a car manufactured by Ford since 1993. Ford Focus and Ford Mondeo are front-wheel-drive vehicles, sedans, station wagons and touring cars.
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Ford Motor Argentina
Ford Argentina S.C.A. is the Argentine subsidiary of Ford Motor Company founded in Buenos Aires in 1913.
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Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States.
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Ford of Europe
Ford of Europe GmbH is a subsidiary company of Ford Motor Company founded in 1967 in Cork, Ireland, with headquarters in Cologne, Germany.
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Ford Sync
Ford Sync (stylized Ford SYNC) is a factory-installed, integrated in-vehicle communications and entertainment system that allows users to make hands-free telephone calls, control music and perform other functions with the use of voice commands.
Ford World Rally Team
The Ford World Rally Team, also known as the Ford Motor Co.
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Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout
In automotive design, an F4, or front-engine, four-wheel drive (4WD) layout places the internal combustion engine at the front of the vehicle and drives all four roadwheels.
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Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout
In automotive design, a front-engine, front-wheel-drive (FWD) layout, or FF layout, places both the internal combustion engine and driven roadwheels at the front of the vehicle.
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Fuel injection
Fuel injection is the introduction of fuel in an internal combustion engine, most commonly automotive engines, by the means of an injector.
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Hatchback
A hatchback is a car body configuration with a rear door that swings upward to provide access to the main interior of the car as a cargo area rather than just to a separated trunk.
Hubert Burda Media Holding is a German media group with headquarters in Offenburg.
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James Nash (racing driver)
James Elliott Martyn Nash (born 16 December 1985, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire) is a British auto racing driver.
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Limited-slip differential
A limited-slip differential (LSD) is a type of differential gear train that allows its two output shafts to rotate at different speeds but limits the maximum difference between the two shafts.
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Liquefied petroleum gas
Liquefied petroleum gas, also referred to as liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, specifically propane, ''n''-butane and isobutane.
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M-Sport
M-Sport is a motorsport engineering company headquartered at Dovenby Hall near Cockermouth, United Kingdom.
Malcolm Wilson (rally driver)
Malcolm Irving Wilson, OBE (born 17 February 1956) is a British former rally driver and current owner of team and constructor M-Sport.
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Marcus Grönholm
Marcus Ulf Johan "Bosse" Grönholm (born February 5, 1968) is a Finnish former rally and rallycross driver, being part of a family of the Swedish-speaking population of Finland lineage.
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Markko Märtin
Markko Märtin (born 10 November 1975 in Tartu) is a retired rally driver from Estonia, who competed in the World Rally Championship from 2000 until 2005.
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Mikko Hirvonen
Mikko Hirvonen (born 31 July 1980) is a Finnish former rally driver, and a current Rally-Raid driver, who drove in the World Rally Championship.
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Monte Carlo Rally
The Monte Carlo Rally or Rallye Monte-Carlo (officially Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo) is a rallying event organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco.
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Oreste Berta
Oreste Berta (born 29 September 1938 in Rafaela, Argentina) is an Argentinian engineer who has built and entered racing cars in various championships since the 1960s.
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Rally de Portugal
The Rally de Portugal (formerly: Rallye de Portugal) is a rally competition held in Portugal.
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Rallying
Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (sometimes called "rally racing" in United States), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed.
Retractable hardtop
A retractable hardtop — also known as "coupé convertible" or "coupé cabriolet" — is a car with an automatically operated, self-storing hardtop, as opposed to the folding textile-based roof used by traditional convertible cars.
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Rose Mary Farenden
Rose Mary Farenden (born 22 May 1964) is a Northern Irish mechanical engineer who was the project manager for the launch of the Ford Focus in 1998.
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Safari Rally
The Safari Rally is an automobile rally held in Kenya.
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Sedan (automobile)
A sedan or saloon (British English) is a passenger car in a three-box configuration with separate compartments for an engine, passengers, and cargo. Ford Focus and sedan (automobile) are sedans.
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Sports Car Club of America
The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) is a non-profit American automobile club and sanctioning body supporting Autocross, Rallycross, HPDE, Time Trial, Road Racing, and Hill Climbs in the United States.
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Station wagon
A station wagon (US, also wagon) or estate car (UK, also estate) is an automotive body-style variant of a sedan with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door (the liftgate, or tailgate), instead of a trunk/boot lid. Ford Focus and station wagon are station wagons.
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TC2000 Championship
The TC2000 (Turismo Competición 2000, formerly Súper TC2000) is a touring car racing series held in Argentina since 1979.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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Tom Chilton
Thomas James Chilton (born 15 March 1985) is a British racing driver who currently drives for Team Bristol Street Motors in the British Touring Car Championship.
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V8 engine
A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine in which two banks of four cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration.
Vignale
Vignale is the luxury car sub-brand of Ford Motor Company used in automobiles sold in Europe.
Volvo
The Volvo Group (Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg.
World car
A world car is a car platform designed to suit the needs of global automotive markets with minimal changes in each market where it is sold.
World Rally Championship
The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is an international rallying series owned and governed by the FIA.
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2004 Paris Motor Show
The 2004 Paris Motor Show (Mondial de l'Automobile) took place from 25 September to 10 October 2004 in Paris expo Porte de Versailles.
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2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship
The 2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 11th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season.
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2006 World Rally Championship
The 2006 World Rally Championship was the 34th season in the FIA World Rally Championship.
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2007 World Rally Championship
The 2007 World Rally Championship was the 35th season in the FIA World Rally Championship.
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2009 British Touring Car Championship
The 2009 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship season was the 52nd British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season.
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2010 World Rally Championship
The 2010 World Rally Championship was the 38th season of the FIA World Rally Championship.
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2012 World Touring Car Championship
The 2012 World Touring Car Championship season was the ninth season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship, and the eighth since its 2005 return.
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2014 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour
The 2014 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour was an endurance race for a variety of GT and touring car classes, including: GT3 cars, GT4 cars and Group 3E Series Production Cars.
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See also
Cars powered by transverse 4-cylinder engines
- Fiat X1/9
- Ford Focus
- Honda Civic
- Honda Stepwgn
- Kaicene F70
- Kia Tasman
- Lotus Elise
- Mazda3
- Mini
- Mini Marcos
- Mitsubishi Lancer
- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution
- Opel Speedster
- Peugeot 206
- Peugeot Landtrek
- Proton Inspira
- Proton Jebat
- Proton Lekiu
- Renault 9 and 11
- Toyota MR2
- Toyota Noah
- Unipower GT
- Volvo S40
- Wells Vertige
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Focus
Also known as Focus (car), Focus RS, Ford Focus (Europe), Ford Focus (European), Ford Focus (International), Ford Focus (North America), Ford Focus (North American), Ford Focus (second generation), Ford Focus Flexifuel, Ford Focus RS, Ford Focus RV, Ford Focus ST, Ford Focus ST LPG, Ford Focus ST T16 4x4, Ford Focus T16 4x4, Ford RS Focus, Saleen Focus.
, Safari Rally, Sedan (automobile), Sports Car Club of America, Station wagon, TC2000 Championship, The Daily Telegraph, Tom Chilton, V8 engine, Vignale, Volvo, World car, World Rally Championship, 2004 Paris Motor Show, 2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship, 2006 World Rally Championship, 2007 World Rally Championship, 2009 British Touring Car Championship, 2010 World Rally Championship, 2012 World Touring Car Championship, 2014 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour.