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Ford’s first global high performance model and a star attraction for Ford in Paris, the powerful new Focus ST show car was revealed today by Alan Mulally, Ford’s president and CEO, and Stephen Odell, chairman and CEO, Ford of Europe. The new Focus ST will be propelled forward by a 2.0l turbo 247bhp direct-injection engine,...

Following our supertest feature 'Fierce Creatures', we can now bring you our two-part video of the quickest and most characterful hot hatchbacks on sale today.

Hot hatches have always been the mainstay of affordable high-performance driving. Chris Harris tests six of the quickest and most characterful examples on road and track.

After the success of our long-term Focus ST260 Mountune we're eagerly awaiting our first drive in the new Focus RS. The Mountune upgraded demonstrated the depth of untapped potential within the Focus ST, and with the resources of Ford's RS engineers we can only only imagine how much further they have taken the humble Focus....

What happens when you put our Focus ST260 Mountune together against a 300 bhp Graham Goode Racing Focus ST? Well DR reader Vlad Ilyushchenko was kind enough to join us at Bruntingthorpe during our Hot Hatch shootout feature to find out. The 2-mile straight at Bruntingthorpe beckons and Chris Harris is our man in the...

We deliberated long into the night. The tender for DR’s end-of-term bash had already been vexing the directors’ of the major international raceways for a few months when the deadline approached. Despite strong pitches from Fuji and Laguna Seca and an impassioned appeal from B. Ecclestone Esq to consider his little place at Paul Ricard,...

DR’s long term test fleet head to Curborough, the toughest sprint track in the civilised world (well, near Lichfield) for an end of year party that not even Hugh Heffner could match.

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