2022 Ford Focus ST-Line Vignale MHEV review: hybrid hatchback is a fitting send-off

By The Newsroom
Published 18th Jul 2022, 15:51 BST
Updated 20th Mar 2023, 10:03 BST
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The Ford Focus is one of the best driving hatchbacks on the road. The 2022 refresh adds new tech, trims and mild-hybrid power

A long-standing yardstick for the once-dominant C-segment, the days of the Ford Focus are numbered. Ford has announced that in 2025 the model will follow its bigger brother and fellow late-90s upstart, the Mondeo, to join the big heritage fleet in the sky after a 27-year run, a victim of changing consumer habits and a drive toward electrification.

This mid-life refresh will be the car’s last-hurrah - a visual nip and tuck to bring the styling up to date, but also upgraded technology and revised model range. Is the final Ford Focus in for a fitting send off almost 30 years in the making, or will it, like its millennial contemporaries, slide into irrelevance alongside its Gen X and Baby Boomer forebears?

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What’s new for the 2022 model?