The second Focus, launched at the 2004 Paris Motor Show, kept its predecessor’s suspension architecture largely unchanged but grew in every dimension: 25 mm more wheelbase, and increases in length, width and height that Ford said improved ride at some cost to the sharper handling enthusiasts associated with the Mk1.[1] A two-door coupé-cabriolet with a retractable hardtop, built by Pininfarina in Turin, joined the range in 2007.
Three trims are recorded here: the 1.6 Duratec petrol, the 2.0 TDCi
diesel, and the RS of 2009, Ford’s first Focus RS with the previous
generation’s inline-four dropped for a turbocharged, Volvo-derived
straight-five shared with the Focus ST, driving the front wheels through a
new “RevoKnuckle” suspension designed to fight torque steer. As with the
first generation, two engine displacements here (the 1.6 petrol and 2.0
diesel) are recorded as estimated, since the source states only the
rounded litre figure for each rather than an exact cubic-centimetre value.


