Focus. Diesel. Now.

**AG4** · July 31st, 2007 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by niky

Looks similar... the Philippine version gets a non-chrome grille (which I like better).

Does this mean the 1.8 Ghia will lose its chrome grill? ...or is the facelift only for the RP diesel Focus hatchback?

**Helios** · July 31st, 2007 10:04 PM

wow a diesel variant. the car in the video's too small pero do I still notice dramatic body roll sa mga sharp corners or I could be wrong? if only fd's come in biodiesel

Ford should have revised this car for the 2007 WRC instead of the ST, nice to see it on pure adrenaline of a diesel.

**niky** · July 31st, 2007 10:13 PM

I don't think there's a change for the Ghia... we'll see.

RE: Body roll... that's because we're going pretty damn fast... the tires were peeling off the rims on some runs! You should have seen the other guy. The "enemy car", a black H***a C***c was rolling twice as much, and was visibly more unsettled throughout the course (a 1.5-2 second difference in lap times, as a result). Despite the dramatic body roll, the shock absorbers kept the car from bouncing in transitions.

As Mazda has shown with the Miata, body roll does not necessarily mean poor handling.

**rion** · August 1st, 2007 02:44 AM

my goodness, My favorite car is even getting more better, and I haven't own one yet...

is the engine 2.0L TDCi G6DA?

**Djerms** · August 1st, 2007 06:51 AM

Niky, may srp na ba? Im also thinking of trading the altis for this one pag naglabas na sila ng payment schemes.

**jiyumaico** · August 1st, 2007 08:42 AM

nanghihinayang tuloy ako sa pagkakabili ko ng focus ghia ko.I should have waited for this bago nagdecide bumili.

**jvandanne** · August 1st, 2007 10:32 AM

please erase

**alvin708** · August 1st, 2007 11:46 AM

At last, a compact diesel, I'd like to test drive this baby. Hopefully other manufacturers would follow.

**niky** · August 1st, 2007 01:25 PM

Appallingly, I don't know what the engine code is, but it's a Peugeot sourced engine (either sourced or shared, don't know which...) supposedly.

I just heard on FCP that it's 1.089. That's an awesome price for this car... I was worried it would hit 1.2m.

Despite the lack of rear AC (c'mon, who else has it, anyway?

) and a sunroof (which no one else carries, either), this is a good value.

It's not the first diesel compact on the current market (that's the Elantra), but hopefully it'll force Toyota and Honda to play their diesel hands. Given enough competition, the price of diesel cars should go down a bit.

Ford is laying a lot on these diesel cars. I'm hoping that, if demand is high, they'll extend the range downward towards the 1.6 TDCi... which they can hopefully sell at 850k.

**AG4** · August 1st, 2007 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by rion

my goodness, My favorite car is even getting more better, and I haven't own one yet...

is the engine 2.0L TDCi G6DA?

Not sure of Ford's own code for the engine, but the Focus 2.0 TDCi uses a Peugeot-Citroen(PSA) sourced DW10 TED4 engine.

Originally Posted by Helios

Ford should have revised this car for the 2007 WRC instead of the ST

Ford does not use the ST(FWD/5-cylinder turbo) for WRC.
Currently there is no road version of their WRC cars unlike the old Escorts. They do offer special edition roadcars trimmed to look like WRC cars...
Focus WRC-S TDCi

Focus ST WRC Edition