slappyhaze Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Did anyone else see this at the start of the latest Top Gear (montage in first episode of the new series showing whats coming up)? Focus or Fiesta? Have they announced an ST in the new shape Focus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 According to ford Ecat the focus in the images above is actually the reg of a Mk3 Ford Focus 1.6 Eco Boost model? Primary Features Build Date: 04.07.2011 Vehicle Line: Focus 2011- Body Style: 5 Door Saloon Version: Series 40 Engine: 1.6L EcoBoost SCTi (150PS) - Sigma Transmission:6 Speed Manual Trans - B6 Drive: RHD FWD Axle Ratio: 3.82 Emission:Stage V Emissions Air Conditioning: Dual Zone Auto Temp Control Territory: (+)"GB" Paint: Panther Black (Metallic) Interior Fabric: Pur/Torino / Charcoal Black Minor Features Less Roof Reinforcement Less Roof Line Conversion Less Rear Mudflaps Front Door Scuff Plates - Ford Oval Accessory Media Hub 1XUSB Less Interior Pack Less Front Mudflaps With Hill Launch Assist Rear Passenger Door With Manual Liftgate Saarlouis Plant Built Less Security Lock Group Less Special Equipment Package Ford Corporate badge Less Marketing Flex Prep Pack Less Sales badge Less Special Order Paint Less SVO Application/Label Less Dress Up RSO Less SIP Exterior Paint - Solid For Normal Temperature Zones Less VP Application Label Less Mass Customization Package Less Fire Extinguisher Fixings Less Tyre Repair service Kit With Auto Closing Windows Power Front Windows One Touch Up/Do Power Rear Window One Shot Up/Down With Tinted Glass All Round Grille - Upper Blk Msh/Chrome Surnd Less Windshield Heat Shielding With Heated Windscreen Less Console Ashtray Less Temp Controlled Glove Box With Padded Dash Mini Overhead Cnsl W/Sunglass Bin Console - With Closed Bin Less Rear Floor Console Int Environment Clr-Charcoal Black Int Feat Colour - Charcoal Black Front Floor Carpet mats Rear Floor Carpet mats With General Stowage Box Less Sun Blinds Deluxe Headliner With Illuminated Sunvisor - Drivers With Illuminated Sunvisor-Passenger With Aluminum Interior Door Handles With LH Front Door Armrest With RH Front Door Armrest Less Stowage Bins Rear Coat Hook Less Luggage Compartment Net Kit With Load Area Cover Less Load Compartment Loops Less Load Retention Net Less Decklid Liner With Load Floor Carpet Less First Aid Retain Straps Less W.Triangle Retaining Straps Less Driver Roof Storage Less Front Grille Grille-Lower Surround Hgh Gls Chrm Less roof rack Less Exterior Body Mouldings Rocker Panel Moulding -Cladding C/K With Bright Door Frame Moulding Less Door Edge Guards Less Auxiliary roof rack Crossbars With Rear Spoiler With Electrochromic R/View Mirror Dual Pwr/Heat/Fold/Pud Lamp/Signal With Body Coloured Exterior Mirror With Driver Seat Back Map Pocket Passenger Seat Back Map Pocket With Front 2 Way Headrest With Electric Driver Seat Recliner With Passenger Seat Recliner-Rotary Less Special Seat Covers Less Special Front Seat Covers Less Special Rear Seat Covers With Two Piece Rear Seat Cushion With 60:40 Split - Folding Rr Seat With Integrated Rear Headrest Rear Centre Armrest With Stowage With Rear Center Head Restraint With Drivers Manual Lumbar Support With Passengers Man Lumbar Support With Drivers Heated Seat With Heated Passenger Seat With Drvr/Passngr Seat Belt Minder With Driver 4 Way Pwr.Seat Adjuster With Pass 4 Way Manual Seat Adjust Less Trailer Coupling With Front Towing Hook With Rear Towing Hooks Less Trailer Sway Control (TSC) Engine Cover - Under Hood Body Coloured Exterior Door Handle Body Coloured Tailgate Handle Ignition Key Combination Pack 1 With Leather Gear Shift Knob Steel Sec Door Lock Shield With Child Proof Safety Lock With Remote Controlled Tailgate Release Less Second Remote Ignition Key Less Door Auto Relocking With Door Dead Locks Less Door Unlock System With Door Entry Remote Control Unit With Keyless Start Capless Fuel Filler Without Lock With Int. Rear Window Wiper/Washer With Automatic Windscreen wiper With Heated Washer Jet With Headlamp Washer Less Sun Roof Less Tonneau Cover Front Bumper - Painted Body Colour Less Front Bumper Extension Rear Bumper Body Coloured Plastic Less Rear Bumper Skirt Less Thermoplastic Kneebolster Sys Air Crtn Rstrnt LH Less Rear Side Air Bag Restraint 3 Part Seat Belt- European Regultn With 2 Static Rear Seat Belts With Driver Air Bag With Passenger Air Bag With Side Air Bag - Drivers Side With Side Air Bag - Passenger Side Less Passenger Air Bag Deactivation With Isofix Hard Point Attachment With Manual Adjust Frt.S.Belt Mount Style 1 Tether Anchorage Restraint With Mini Steel Spare Wheel Tyre Pressure Moniter Sys-DDS With Standard Rear Shock Absorbers 7J X 17" Style 5 Alloy Wheel 215/50 17" W Rated BSW Tyre Limited service Mini Spare Tyre With Standard Tyre Tread - Front With Standard Tyre Tread - Rear Less Wheel Covers Locking Wheel Nuts With Kysor Radiator Shutter Less Engine Block Heater Less Frame Mounted Fuel Filter Cold Start -15 Deg C Less Immersion Heater Starter - Stop/Start System With Standard Suspension Front Spring Load Class-K Rear Spring Load Class-Q Strt Sngl Vsbl Pipe One Sd Sngl Muf Less Exhaust Pipe Extension Less Handbrake Grip Mechanical Hand Operated Park Brake Standard Duty Fr/Rr Calp And Pads With Rear Disc Brakes Less Low Speed Safety System Brakes-HLA/ESP/TC/ABS Less Rear Bumper Protector With High Back Front Seats Less Rear Comp Duct Less Air Purifier Sensor With Recirculating Heater Non Locking Capless Fuel Fill With Lead/Unleaded Fuel With Fixed Foot Pedals Standard Foot Pedal Pad Design With Electric Power Steering With Manual Tilt/Slide Stg Column 4 Spoke Leather Steering Wheel Speed Control And ASLD Less Auxiliary Heater Less Park Heating Conventional Instruments - Level 3With Instrument Cluster - Rheostat With MPH/KMH Speedomeer With Trip Compute Less Instruent Gauges Dua Note Electric Horn Less Tyre Inflation Monitor Less Compass Display MFD High TFT Screen Less Navigation System With Message Centre Less Navigation Disk Less Navigation Data Less Emergency Call Button Less Blind Spot Information System Less Lane Keeping Aid Thatcham Catergory 1 Alarm System With Safeguard Anti-Theft Sys(Pats) With Rear Parking Aid With Front Parking Aid Less Side Parking Aid With Automated Parking System Standard Duty battery Less A/V Jack BT/VC Phone Interface + USB Connect ICE-Mid Audio Branded + DAB Ice Feature Pack 8 Branded ICP Less Upgraded Sound System With 9 Radio Speakers Less Radio Subwoofer Less Telephone Preparation Pack Less Mobile Office Pack Less Family Entertainment System Less Sync Voice Activated Module - British With Steering Wheel Radio Controls Less Column Stalk Radio Controls Less Electrical Outlet Less Smokers Package Less Power Point Plug With Power Point Plug - Rear Less Camera Less Cool Box Less Style Pack Less Comfort Pack With Auto Headlamps With Chrome Fog Lamp Bezel High Intensity Discharge Headlamp DTRL Lamp Lit In Pos 0 And Pos With Front Fog Lamps With Aluminium Headlamp Bezels Multi Colour Ambient LED Lighting With Footwell Lights Fr Individual and Rr Map Lights Front And Rear Lamp LED Less Rear Overhead Reading Lamps With Glove Box Illumination With Load Compartment Lamp Less Aux Interior Lights Tail lamps - LED Rear With High Mounted Stop Lamp With Single Rear Fog Lamp With Automatic Headlamp Levelling With Automatic Headlamp Control Less Accessory - Packages Outside Air Temperature Present Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2011fiesta Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Yeah I noticed the focus in their vid too. I was waiting throughout the last season for them to review it. Glad they're finally featuring it. Maybe its a zetec s and the owner has put an ST badge on? lol though surely the car experts would have noticed that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynS Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 That's a focus on the right, looking the plate up it's a 1.6 Titanium registered 26/10/11 so that one certainly isn't an ST. There is one confirmed however http://www.autotrader.co.uk/articles/2011/05/cars/ford/focus/ford-focus-st-on-sale-in-2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico. Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 anyone cared to think they may have just any plates on them? doubt ford would have sent out a 'fake' st to the biggest car show in the world Edit: an un-released car wouldn't be registered anyway would it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2011fiesta Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 anyone cared to think they may have just any plates on them? doubt ford would have sent out a 'fake' st to the biggest car show in the world Edit: an un-released car wouldn't be registered anyway would it I did think that but then thought surely we would have seen something online about it, even if just spy shots etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgm2010 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Yeah, def ST, due out later this year in 5 door and estate versions (No 3dr!!!), some shots of the estate can be seen http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/FutureVehicles/focus-st-wagon was also on the autoexpress website http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/motorshows/paris-motor-show/256987/ford_focus_st_official_pictures.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akakray Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Its from the film The Sweeney which is in post-production - Ford have supplied the cars and the one in the picture is the new FOCUS ST (although that particular car may not be as they wont want to wreck an ST). Here is a couple of links :) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0857190/ The film on IMDB http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/275554/focus_st_set_for_the_sweeney.html The article in Auto Express Hope that helps guys :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Yeah, most probably they got Ford to mock up the standard Focus as a ST for filming as they would most likely go through a few in getting the action right and using a real ST would cost a lot more. Still, seeing that makes you want to sob. Nice to see they have Ben Drew in the film, he was good in Harry Brown and love Plan B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRC89 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 It certainly looks like an ST but as others have mentioned probably a mock up as the clip shows crashing (I cringed when I saw it) Hopefully they'll be reviewing the actual ST too, it's about the right time to, by next series it would have already been released, we know Top Gear like their hot hatches, and this ones got a fair amount of hype, so I'll be looking forward to the upcoming episodes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Kegs Thirlwell Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 do you think they are worried about writing off a st when they wrote off a jag xf if you read the top gear mag they said they had a budget off 3.5 million for the chase sequence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akakray Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Capital letters, commas, full stops, correct spelling.. Why write off an actual ST, when you can write off something worth less that looks the same? It could be a similar situation with the XF - it might look like a top of the range model but actually could be a tarted up bottom of the range car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynS Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Even so, always seems such a waste when they go and write off a perfectly good new car. Like the little red thing they had a while back (what was it again?) which they drove upside down through a sewer (even though it was fake), destroyed, then jumped it into the sea. As amusing as some of these things are to watch I hate seeing it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanGull Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 It's quite possible that the ST is actually worth a lot more than the standard car will be - I doubt that it's in the standard state that it left the factory in. Look at Casino Royale - the DBS didn't have enough grunt or the right sound for what they wanted, so one of the cars was stripped out and fitted with an even bigger lump and ridiculous exhausts. Then of course the one in the crash was a mere Shell. This scene is probably no different - they will have had several cars, some with roll cages - hell sometimes they even use LHD cars but leave the RHD interior in, that way they can have their star at the wheel but someone else controlling the car. At the end of the day - it looks like an ST, the important thing is that we will be seeing this car in the UK before long. And akaray - while I'm with you on the need for correct punctuation etc - we don't make an issue of it here, it tends to drive some people off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d2kea Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Even so, always seems such a waste when they go and write off a perfectly good new car. Like the little red thing they had a while back (what was it again?) which they drove upside down through a sewer (even though it was fake), destroyed, then jumped it into the sea. As amusing as some of these things are to watch I hate seeing it! Renault Twingo with Ross Kemp in the boot. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Renault Twingo with Ross Kemp in the boot. :) That's the one. A lot of cars Top Gear use are demo models from the manufacturers and have been thrashed by every journo in the country. Remember when they played football with aygo's? The companies don't expect them to come back in one piece. Still a waste though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Kegs Thirlwell Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Capital letters, commas, full stops, correct spelling.. What difference does it make can you read it yes ? thought so .I wrote it quickly whats the problem . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynS Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 That's the one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akakray Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Sorry but poor grammar and punctuation grind me apologies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanGull Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Don't apologise - you're not alone and it wasn't a telling off. What I will say is that the majority of posters on FOC do use punctuation (which does make posts much easier to read) and those who do tend to get more replies and become part of the community more easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimrex Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I agree it's a waste of a good car, even if it isn't a real ST! Ford spend millions on advertising and marketing their models though, so for the cost of one car, they are getting some pretty decent advertising to millions of people on Top Gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2011fiesta Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 IT'S TONIGHTS EPISODE PEOPLE ! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MRC89 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I forgot it was on tonight. THANKYOU. Looking forward to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2011fiesta Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 So it was a fake as first thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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