http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/14/next-ford-focus-will-be-a-global-project-c1-platform-coming-s

about damn time. looks like someone has a brain at ford now.

bout f'n time. Funny how one person said America wouldn't get the new Focus untill the 3rd gen would come out, lol.

+1

about freakin time! why didn't they just do this a year ago instead of giving us the ugly POS that is the new Focus... seriously, not even a mother could love that face...

Wow, it's finally going to happen... It is totally about time!!!! The current Focus is just nasty

The only good thing I find nice in our "new" Focus is gas mileage and emmisions.

well, other than the styling, i've heard it's actually a great little car. it's supposed to ride really smooth and quite for the price while feeling somewhat sporty. SYNC is pretty cool, too.

yea the focus doesn't get the credit it deserves, but the C1 is better still, lol. And really... out of all the US foci i've seen, I think the first is still the best looking, especially the SVT version.

not near as good looking as the euro ST model, though.

Yea, but I said US Foci =P to me they just kept getting uglier and uglier...

I just wish we could have gotten the C1 model that looked like the 04 MY. I am not a big fan of the new ones styling, in the US or Europe.

the last gen euro focus RS model was probably the best looking focus ever. the newer euro focus still looks worlds better than the US spec, but not quite as good as last gen... it kinda lost some of its flair.

as for the US focus... it went from decent to abysmal styling wise.

Kind of weird that the Focus is having a great year in sales.

yeah, i was shocked that it was doing so well... that just further cements my notion that the american buying public has absolutely no sense of style anymore.

It's been a while. I mean, the Camry is the number one selling car.

lol, exactly.