Ford Debuts Focus Wagon at the Geneva Auto Show, You Can’t Have It
On the eve of the Geneva Auto Show, Ford has debuted another variation on the new global-Focus theme, the Focus wagon.
Predictably, it is much like the Focus five-door hatch and sedan that the company unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show. But this version isn't quite so, um, global. In other words, Ford has no plans to sell the auto in the United States. This is because the percentage share of Focus income represented by station wagons (when the company sold a auto here) was often not even in the double digits. And with the five-door hatch and the Grand C-Max Focus-based mini-minivan both confirmed for U.S. sale, a Focus auto would occupy a pretty narrow niche anyway.
The mechanical specifications for the auto are essentially same to those of the Euro-market Focus hatch. Ford notes that this auto debuts in the same Candy Red paint as was seen on the five-door at Detroit.
In Europe, the Focus is acquirable with two diesel engines, a 2.0-liter and a 1.6-liter. Additionally, the Euro car will be offered with a 1.6-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder turbocharged four-cylinder gas motor. Ford has not announced whether that engine will make it into the U.S. market Focus sedan and hatch, but it will be offered in the 7-passenger Grand C-Max that comes Stateside in 2011. In Europe, that motor makes up to 178 horsepower. Ford hastens to add, however, that the U.S.-market version would likely make more power than that.

