- The 2015 Ford Focus is available with a 1.0-liter 3-cylinder engine that earns up to 42 mpg. All models get styling tweaks that include a new nose and tail to make it look more like the larger.
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Amid concerns over the dual-clutch automatic transmission in its Fiesta and Focus sedans and hatchbacks, Ford announced plans to extend warranty coverage on key hardware for a wide swath of owners. The so-called DPS6 transmission, offered on the Fiesta since the 2011 model year and Focus since the 2012 model year, has spawned widespread complaints of rough shifts and, sometimes, loss of power.
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In a statement today, Ford said it “understands and regrets that many customers have been inconvenienced and frustrated by the performance of the DPS6 transmission.” The automaker will extend warranty coverage for specific transmission hardware on certain Focus and Fiesta vehicles by two years — now to seven years or 100,000 miles, versus the prior five years or 60,000 miles (for both, whichever comes first). The extension applies to these variants:
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- 2014-16 Focus models built from July 4, 2013, to Nov. 5, 2015
- 2014-15 Fiesta models built from July 4, 2013, to Oct. 15, 2014
If your car is within those model years, check the sticker on the driver’s doorjamb to see the exact build date (by month, at least). Back in July 2014, Ford extended such warranty coverage for earlier examples of the two cars — the Fiesta going back to 2011, the Focus going back to 2012.
The warranty covers repairs to clutch components for the dual-clutch automatic. Both the clutch materials and seals have been a source of DSP6 problems, Ford spokesman T.R. Reid told Cars.com. Ford promised to reimburse Focus and Fiesta owners in the group for prior clutch repairs that owners paid for out of pocket. Owners can call Ford’s hotline at 833-805-3673.
Separately, a transmission control module in the cars can fail, resulting in the vehicle defaulting to Neutral, Reid said. The TCM is under extended replacement warranty — 10 years or 150,000 miles for cars built through the above build dates — and owners received a software update to give an enhanced warning of failure to prompt immediate repairs. But 16 percent of Fiesta and Focus owners, amounting to about 165,000 in the U.S., never got the free update. Ford says it’s reaching out to them again.
Newer Focus and Fiesta models still carry the DSP6 transmission but not the extended warranty coverage. Reid said Ford has “improved all of the components” in recent years, and “overall performance of the transmission is at competitive levels.”
The manual transmission offered on both cars is unrelated to these problems.
Today’s move comes a month after a major investigation by the Detroit Free Press into the issue. In response, Ford acknowledged a “a degree of vibration or shudder” at low speeds and the faulty control module defaulting to Neutral “on a much smaller scale,” but said the Free Press report “includes conclusions that are not based in fact.”
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Ford's just released sales figures for its hot hatches and they look promising.
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Optimists will see this news as proof that America loves hot hatchbacks. However, pessimists will see it merely as a creative way to spin a decline in overall small car sales. At CarBuzz we're glass-half-full type of people, so we're going with the former. OK, no more burying the lede: Ford has just released sales figures for the Focus RS, Focus ST and Fiesta ST. The automaker says that industrywide, sales of non-luxury, turbocharged small hatchbacks are down 21% but that its hot hatches have seen a sales bump of 21.3% on the year.
The Ford Focus RS has accounted for 1,674 sales through September 2016 (all figures here are through the same date). The Focus ST has sold the most units at 8,249, and the Fiesta ST pulled in 3,215 sales. If you were to run the numbers as percentages then the Focus RS would account for just 1% of Focus sales, although that number is skewed as you can't break down sales by sedan or hatchback. If you lump the Focus ST into the mix then the amount of turbo'd Focuses sold through September 2016 jumps to 7%. Again, that number should be higher, but even 7% isn't awful when you consider that Americans supposedly aren't into hot hatchbacks. Ditto for the Fiesta ST, which makes up 8% of all Fiesta sales (sedan included).
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Ford got out in front of the whole hot hatchback revival in the United States and its gamble appears to be paying off. (We know the Volkswagen Golf GTI exists but to be fair it never left the market. If anything it kept the fire hot so that Ford, Honda and others could pour gasoline on it.) The biggest payoff would be for a halo-ish model like the Focus RS to drive up sales of the normal Focus five-door, but the way the industry is moving-all small cars must be crossovers-that just doesn't seem possible. Note that these figures aren't final either. There is still three more months for Ford to unload hot hatches. We'll check back in with the automaker at the end of the year and see where the final tally stands.