The Ford Focus ST, you can have. So long as it’s a 5-door hatchback with a 6-speed manual transmission.
A Ford Focus wagon, however, you may not have. Thus, you obviously can’t combine the ST’s hot 2.0L turbocharged four-cylinder – tested more than two years ago by GCBC – with the Focus’s wagon bodystyle.
Nor can you option your Focus ST with a 185-horsepower 2.0L four-cylinder diesel generating 295 lb-ft of torque.
And you most definitely can’t have your Focus ST painted in this Stealth Grey colour, which is strangely both eye-catching and subtle. Could the Focus ST diesel wagon be any more stealthy than when it’s painted in an almost matte grey?
Historical Monthly & Yearly U.S./Canadian Ford Focus Sales Figures
Wagons aren’t for everybody. Automakers certainly believe they’re not for North Americans, though Mercedes-Benz did just take the unusual step of releasing the new C-Class wagon to Canada. For the most part, however, we’re not offered wagons, and when we are, they’re done like that C-Class: not in enthusiast form.
Regardless, in what we hope will become a tradition at GCBC, this Ford Focus ST Wagon TDCi is the first Car Of The Day You Can’t Have, the first COTDYCH. Pronounce it cot-e-ditch.
Timothy Cain is the founder of GoodCarBadCar.net, which obsesses over the free and frequent publication of U.S. and Canadian auto sales figures. Follow on Twitter @goodcarbadcar and on Facebook.
