911 ST in new form? (Ford Focus ST)

Seems Ford has coined a new model with the iconic 'ST' moniker that most of us associate with a Porsche 911 from the early 70s. From a joint effort by Ford Europe and the US SVT team, the new Focus will boast a direct injected turbo'd 2.0 with 245 hp and 265 lb-ft torque by using twin cams and EcoBoost technology.

Shown recently at the Paris Auto Show, it garnered the Show's MOST FUN award for Ford. If only Porsche had copyrighted the 'ST'....now we will never see another 911 ST version with a water-cooled engine I guess. Too bad.

Maybe Freeman dropped that name into the suggestion box and they picked it :D

Uh oh, and this on the heels of their use of RS for the 70s rally cars. :D Not to mention Peugeot stealing 908 for the diesel Le Mans car.

Just to say the Focus ST has been in production here for years. I drove a well-used 2004 model for Autocar magazine the other day: total hoot on Welsh mountain roads. Great cars worthy of the ST moniker and I am no Ford guy! ;)

After a while when they've used all the weird names, and there's nothing left in the history bin to tag onto a car, they'll come up with something big. Really big. They'll roll out a re-packaged fly-by-wire 4000# car and call it......wait for it........The 911. They'll have some marketing guy explain how they're "getting back to our roots" in motorsport. A fresh approach to a tried and true idea.

BTW, looking at that Ford....when did design so become so out of whack proportionally? Are the doors going to continue to keep getting wider until the windows resemble a slit in a blind? Are we all going to be rolling on Doves with just the slightest hint of rubber? Designers need to go look at Vitruvian Man again and re-learn proportion.

Yeah this new Focus ST has this Ecoboost technology feature which makes it a bit better than Porsche.