PASADENA, Calif. — Ford Motor Co. is aiming its new pocket rocket at Japanese car enthusiasts who spend thousands souping up their front-drive cars. The car is the 2002 Ford SVT Focus, a new under-$18 ...

If you've been living in the automotive twilight zone, let's explain something: Pocket rockets are the next big thing. Wait, you say--what's a pocket rocket? Call 'em PRs for short, okay? PR's, also ...

Horse Sense:The SVT Focus is actually another world car. In Europe, the basic package will be sold under a different name. The result is the 7,500 produced in the United States are part of a ...

So there I was, in the driver's seat of a fairly pedestrian, garden-variety stock Ford Focus hatchback, lined up side-by-side on an empty street with a tuned-to-the-gills SVT Focus hatchback, engines ...

A landmark nameplate for the Ford Motor Company, the Cortina is many things to many people, especially in the United Kingdom because it was designed and primarily built there. This particular example ...

Fresh yet functional, Ford's popular Focus is a clever, slightly European styled entry-level vehicle available in a three-door wagon or four-door sedan. The latest to rush on to the Focus scene is ...

[This story originally appeared in the June 2003 issue of MotorTrend] The streets of America, as it turns out, are an equal-opportunity playground. Show up with the right look and hardware that says ...

As a rule of thumb, the worth of a tuner car (TC) is inversely proportional to the square of the size of the entourage (E) ...

Performance pickups used to be a thing. From the Chevy 454 SS in the early 1990s to the sports car like performance the Toyota Tacoma X-Runner was throwing down in the early 2000s fast trucks had ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...