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2013 Ford Focus ST Long-Term Road Test
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2013 Ford Focus ST Long-Term Road Test
Examining some cabin elements that make the drive less than epic in Edmunds.com's 2013 Ford Focus ST long-term road test.
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I'm hoping that the Fiesta ST's interior is a little more accommodating.
Apparently people like you are why people like me now have to drive cars where every trace of color has been eliminated from the interior (some manufacturers are working hard on the exteriors as well). I probably wouldn't pick this shade, but you can also have grey even with the Tangerine Scream exterior, or black if you get the all-leather Recaros (or don't get the Recaros at all), or blue with some other exterior colors. Which is a lot more choice than you find in a lot of cars today.
1) Left twitter speaker had a 2 mm gap between it and the door panel, right speaker no gap
2) Interior door handle fit and finish was bad. You can squeeze it lightly and feel the plastic move.
And I am not a big person at 5' 6 and I find the seats not comfortable.
And I agree with the comments about the general design. It's trying hard to be modern but comes across as plasticky in a targeted at teens sort of way.
Overall the interior design and fit and finish it's not the strongest suit in the car I saw. Then again it was quite close to the BMW booth so maybe we were just a bit spoiled after sitting in BMWs and Minis.
The exterior styling of the ST isn’t my favorite thing about the car and neither is the newer Focus interior, but I recall a decade ago when we first got the Focus comments on the odd shapes and “sagging booby” dash and those cars ended up aging reasonably well. This Focus interior might be polarizing but at least has a little style and it isn’t a cookie cutter interior although there’s always room for improvements.