Ford Focus 1.0 litre EcoBoost drops below 100g/km & Focus range gets tweaked

Ford has tweaked the Ford Focus with the 100PS 1.0 litre EcoBoost engines to deliver 99g/km and the Focus range gets new Navigator models.

The 1.0 litre. 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine Ford has been rolling out across its range recently is a cracking little engine, and a much better option for most private buyers than a diesel version.

Now, Ford has given buyers who want a sub-100g/km car the chance to finally buy a petrol car instead of an oil burner with the first family-sized car with a petrol engine to break the 100g/km barrier.

Ford have taken the 1.0 litre Focus and cast their Econetic Technology across its form with aerodynamic tweaks, ultra-low rolling resistance tyres and some fiddling with gear ratios to produce the most frugal petrol Focus ever.

It’s a neat trick – especially if you can get benefit from the sub-100g/km emissions – and shows just how far car makers have been able to engineer round the completely pointless CO2 tax barriers government impose. But at least this time it’s a petrol engine, rather than a dirty diesel, getting the benefit.

So now you’ll get the choice of three versions of the 1.0 litre Ecoboost in the Focus – this new, sub-100g/km 100PS Econetic unit, the regular 100 PS or the 125 PS. We’d still take the 125PS version and pay Boris.

As well as revealing their new frugal trick for the 1.0 litre EcoBoost, Ford has also revealed the arrival of Focus Navigator models, which do what they say on the tin – they throw in SatNav as standard.

So you have a choice of the Zetec Navigator – which gets SatNav and new design alloys and centre console – the Titanium Navigator (which replaces the Titanium) gets Sony SatNav, new 16″ alloys and parking sensors and the Titanium X Navigator (which replaces the Titanium X) which gets Sony SatNav, 17″ alloys and rear view camera.

The three new models cost £17,555, £19,295 and £21,295 – a few hundred pounds more than the non-Nav models – and are now available to order.