By now you’re sick of hearing about Ford’s axing all of its sedans in favor of more trucks. The Focus sedans are of course on the black list. But in order not waste all of the huge investment in its tooling and production facilities, the Ford planners have come up with a brilliant solution. And CC Cohort cjcz92 has even managed to snag an undiguised prototype in the wild.
A Focus truck! Or maybe “ute” is more appropriate. I’m sure the final production version will have somewhat better integrated tail lights, but you get the idea; don’t you? Now what will be a good name for it? F-50?
Funny I own a Focus with the “Catfish” front and it still pops out at me how ugly it is. Maybe it’s the white.
I’d bid lower, make it the F1 like the light duty trucks from 1950.
for taillights you could use those thin 1990’s Cadillac lights. Or maybe two big rows of 1959 Caddy bullets 🙂
F1 is a good designation.
A while back I saw a Lincoln Town Car with similar treatment. Or not really, as everything from six inches behind the rear doors looked like a packing crate.
I saw this a few days ago and was amused by the way you can’t see anything out of the ordinary until you are almost completely behind this….car?
Me too. When I saw the view of the front on the Cohort the other day at first I was like “Why’d he bother uploading that? It’s just a Focus.” Then I saw the back.
I can just see the weekend warriors trying to haul a load with it. “Uhmmm, we’re not stuck. The front wheels came off the ground.”
Nicely done. But I’d rather have a Valiant Wayfarer.
Something looks out of focus there 😉
It’s a true fiesta of flex fusion design!
It’s the Funkmaster Flex Focus!
Comment o’ the week, right here folks.
So your car got totaled in a rear-end accident, but the buyback is cheap. You know it’s otherwise in good shape; maybe you just sunk a lot of money into it.
This fellow’s solution came out a lot prettier than some .
That was my take, as well. Maybe a rear-ended fleet/rental special someone was able to pick up on the cheap and simply bondo-ed in everything.
I can’t imagine anyone butchering an otherwise intact Focus sedan in this way, particularly as there would be virtually no advantage over a Focus hatchback.
This project car is a remarkable achievement. The creator’s design and fabrication skills far outstrip that of the ordinary individual.
With a slightly better color match and the proper paint gloss, along with better integrated tail lights, many (non-enthusiast) folk would mistake this for an actual production car- The view from the front almost fooled me.
We have all heard of the Box Panther or the Box Caprice. Behold the Box Focus. 🙂
A longtime friend of mine bought a green, salvage fleet Matador back in the ‘70’s, that had been rear-ended, along with a yellow stepside Ford pickup bed. He married them together, though not as cleanly as this Focus, dubbed it the Mataford.
There was a guy in southern Indiana (Scottsburg) who had a small shop where he would make these Frankenstein creations by mating the front ends of rear-ended Priuses with just about…anything.
Most times it was with the pickup bed of the old Subaru Baja. Don’t know if he’s still around or not.
Maybe it should be the Courier, or in homage to both the Ford P100 and Top Gear call it the P45. From the rear it actually looks a lot like a Prius hack job.
How about F-.50? Or start a new class, the FU-V. Which sounds a little cursive. And just as confusing as a yoda TRD (insert whatever vowel you want).
Well that sure is interesting, I wonder what the backstory is?
El Fonchero?
A little known fact is that this is actually the second generation of this vehicle. A few years back I managed to get a shot of the very elusive first generation model.
Other then the rear spoiler, that is not a bad job
The spoiler seems to obstruct the opening of the tailgate and looks like it is just stuck on. The rest of the thing looks good
Pulsar Sportbak anyone?
Bin done already… Grem-Bin Voyageur
The name of this should be a portmanteau of Focus and Truck.
Drop the “o-c-u-s” from Focus, and the “T-r” from truck…. and what do you get?
;-P
Ford fanboi here, but…
I rented a Focus hatchback and loved the way it drove and handled. I started thinking I want one as my work commuter car. Then the automatic transmission did some very weird clunking & shifting. It was terrible to manually shift. After I turned the car back in I did some online research. These Getrag Power-shift transmissions fail on a regular basis. This is probably costing Ford a fortune in warranty claims. Maybe that is half the reason they want to axe the Focus rather than re-create a new transmission.