Production of the Ford Focus will end in 2025 as Ford pivots its attention to electric vehicles, the company has said.
The end of the family car is also likely to mean the end of Ford production in Saarlouis, Germany, although Ford stopped short of saying the plant would be closed.
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Not that the Ford Focus is a cheap car any more (just like every car on the market these days) but it does look like we're all going to be forced to lease ridiculously expensive "up-market" £50k plus cars that we'll never own going forward.
As I resent paying that much for a form of transport, I will be running my current car into the ground instead of purchasing such a vehicle.
And after my current car dies, there's always public transport............oh, wait a minute..........
Yep, outrageous price rises for the last 10 years and more to come. The motoring press barely notices as the cars they get are all lease/freebies, but it's completely out of hand when the average national wage barely nets a basic Focus. Any EV with a workable range is £40k, bar the odd outlier.
Welcome to the club!!! (The Ex-Ford Plant Club, just like Southhampton, Dagenham, Avely, Halewood). Ford obviously didn't get any mega bucks from the German government to keep Saaloius open. Therefore it took the cheaper option & decided to keep Valancia going, where wage rates are almost half that of overpriced Germany.
This only makes sense if Ford have a replacement for the Focus, one which is hybrid. EVs are expensive, and a Focus is supposed to be a generic family car, cheap to buy, own and run. The only eqivalence you can get at the moment is a hybrid and there's probably nowhere on the Focus platform to fit that in.