2024 MK4.5 Facelift Ford Focus ST Edition First UK Impressions
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- I share the first UK customer delivered 2024 MK4.5 Facelift Ford Focus ST Edition in todays video. This limited run car is potentially set to be one of the last ICE Ford Performance cars produced and I am very exciting to share this one with you all as it is a passion of mine to do so.
Feel free to drop me a DM on my Instagram or email if you would be happy to have your car featured!
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Looks amazing love the colour
That Azura Blue really does look special 👍
Picking my focus st edition next week get ceramic coating first can’t wait 👍
Many congrats! The colour looks stunning so we'll worth a ceramic coating 🎉
Hi Sam thanks for your comment, it come from the factory in Nitrous Blue I got it brand new its a 67 plate, i will have to upload a video of it to you tube, Clive
Thanks for sharing! That is super cool for a normal ST to look like an RS from the factory 👍
If you would be happy I would love to share the car? Feel free to email or DM me on Instagram if you would be. All my information is in the bio of my channel or description of this video. It would be great to share the car in any capacity you would be happy with if we can make it work 😊 email: Sam.a17@outlook.com / instagram: @samaustin657
I am assuming the MK 4.5 Focus ST track pack is the same mechanically as the Edition, or does it have bigger brakes as well as cosmetic changes?
It is the same you are right. Other than the exclusive paint and blue interior stitching. The final difference being it limited to only 300 vehicles 🙂
@@SamAustin Thanks for the info👍
Love the look of this car. Thank you for the video. Love your enthusiasm!!
Me too it looks great in Azura Blue! No worries at all and thank you for the positive feedback 😊
I have a Puma ST 1.5 Sam, Azura blue is actually a solid colour, although, very high gloss! 😍
Many congrats on your Azura Blue in your 1.5 Puma ST! Thank you for confirming it is a solid colour and your right it is very high gloss 🎉
Love the videos.
That colour is one of my all time favourites. The one thing I miss about my old ST Edition.
Never had the heart to mod it beyond stage 1 330, really wakes these MK4/4.5 Focus STs up.
My 4.5 performance pack car though I've gone mad running Stage 2 365+
One thing I will say on the MK4... the engine sound enhancement needs turning off, especially if you replace the exhaust 😅
Great video. Car looks stunning. Strange they didn't put a numbered plaque in the car that would have added to the limited edition nature of the car. Still a few for sale on autotrader, some even with a discount. Could be to do with thr price, a fully speccced one around 45k!
Thank you and I also discussed this with the owner the cars should have been numbered. Apparently it is possible they are with the last 3 digits shown on the VIN number but this is not confirmed quite as yet. Yes I have seen a handful for sale new and might take a drive to check another one out actually 👍
I've been looking for this video since the ST Edition was announced. In just a few weeks I will be the owner of this car, and I feel very lucky. I see I'm not the only future owner of this car in the comments. Do you think we could do something to create a community about ford focus st and ford focus st edition (mk4.5) to support each other and share experiences? I think it would be great🤩🤩
Many congrats on your ST Edition order! 🎉Happy to share the video and I am grateful the owner reached out as there is little content shown on the car...even from Ford themselves. I have produced content on the Focus ST Edition since 2021 on my UA-cam channel and I am a big fan of Fast Fords. Setting something up with all the owners would be great and I know this owner has found the Ford forums very useful too. Myself and the owner will be at this event, which I attend most years, which is a great way to have all the owners together it is called: "Simply Ford - Beaulieu". It is a great community for sure, which I try to create further on my channel, and with Ford perhaps heading in a different direction this ST Edition is likely to be one of the last ICE Ford Performance vehicles produced 👍
@@SamAustin Thank you so much for your reply and for uploading content about the ST Edition! As you mentioned, there's really not much available, so your channel is incredibly valuable. Your enthusiasm is contagious and really adds to the excitement 🎉.
About the Ford Focus ST Edition community, do you think we could promote a Telegram group? I already run a Telegram community for Ford Fiesta owners since I own one myself, and it works great. It would be fantastic to connect with other future ST Edition owners, as I've seen a few others in the comments. We could share experiences, discussions, and materials among the limited owners of this edition.
By the way, you mentioned in the video that there are 300 units for the UK and 200 more for the rest of Europe. Where did you get that information? Do you know the source?
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Plenty of groups on facebook, especially one for mk4 owners, very good group.
Brilliant! Looks awesome, love the enthusiasm, great video 👍
Thank you so much 🙂
Just a standard Focus ST with the performance pack and track pack added.
Yes this is true. Limited to 300 units and Azura Blue paint / blue interior stitching is exclusive to the ST Edition.
@@SamAustin Is it really worth the price hike though for the Azura blue paint (Which isn’t even that exclusive seeing as every other new Puma ST I see on the road has been specced with that paint) and a metal plaque with a number on it? Should of upped the power to 320+BHP at least, maybe even slapped a better exhaust system on it to give it it’s last “Hoorah”.
I think the MK4 (Pre-facelifted) Focus ST Edition for around £25,000 on the used market is the one to go for. For me at over £42,000 it is too high and I do agree with your points. It is all subjective and it is great to see this car on the road...I feel as though it is the closest thing we will see from Ford to a Focus RS.
@@AP-18789 Mountune M330 or 365. Dreamscience offer similar. Its sad we never got a mk4 RS, but then that would not have been a hot hatch.
Good review like St in blue, My local Ford dealership as one in the show room, looks fantastic, I have a Ford Focus ST mk 3 in Nitrous Blue, it's a Ford miss build I was told, looks like a RS, keep up the good reviews 👍
Thank you for the positive feedback. Oh wow a Nitrous Blue Focus ST MK3? I am very curious about that car with that paint. As you say that was specific for the RS so I wonder if someone painted your car after or do you think that is how the car came from factory? Very cool 👍
The colour is stunning, would rather silver wheels though. Are you buying one Sam 🤔
It looks fantastic in person also that colour! Ford do know how to nail that aspect. The black wheels do look great but I do also really like the silver/grey wheels on the standard Focus ST also. Perhaps spraying these black wheels in Silver would look the part plus slightly easier to maintain perhaps. I would love to own one but sadly this particular car is a little out of my budget set a side for such a car given I have the Golf R....I would however consider a MK4 Focus ST Edition, so the pre-facelifted version, as it would be a big turnaround for Ford to produce another limited run internal combustion engine Hot Hatch in the future now so a special car for the long term. You have got me thinking about silver wheels now too as a possibility 😁
@@SamAustin the GolfR is a great car, not driven or sat in one . The black wheels look lost against the blue bodywork, I’m a bit old fashioned when it comes to black wheels. I’ve owned a I30N since last September, great car shame the roads are so bad but I’m fortunate to live in a rural part of West Wales to enjoy the B roads.
How lucky UK / Europe us convict’s in Australia 🇦🇺 won’t get the Focus nor the Puma in fact we still don’t have the 24 Mustang… talk about the arse end of the world
Looks like a cool car I do like Azura Blue. Reminds me so much of my Ford MK3 Focus RS, small detail Sam they moved the amplifier in the Fiesta ST MK8.5 it was in the boot on the pre-faced lifted model, but sub was moved to under the passenger seat, I only found this out when the dealer took me around my car when I collected it. If it was my ST Edition I would keep it standard, it's a keeper, lucky guy🤦
Yes and discussing with the owner we believe it is a revised paint code of the older nitrous blue in the MK3 RS. The only difference from what I can see if that the Azura blue is a slightly more flat paint without the extra sparkle in the Nitrous Blue. They both look very similar other than that. It is amazing all the little small details that do get changed during a facelift. I would also keep the car stock myself I agree 👍
@@SamAustin Just seen an Azura Blue Puma ST at work, don't normally like the Puma but it does look pretty smart in that colour. It's taunting me🤦
Actually prefer these subtler dials compared to previous visuals, it's all kinda meh with the screens compared to actual dials
Great video, thanks!
So what's the difference between a ST Edition and a ST Track Pack?
Is there a real difference that worth getting the ST Edition?
I'm about to order one, and planning to go with Race Red ST Track Pack with sunroof... which i think you can't get on the ST Edition
No worries at all. The only different is the Azura Blue paint, the Blue interior stitching and the limit number to the UK being 300 units. Other than that it is the same as a track pack. Race Red does look great with these Focus ST's and best of wishes with your decision. You are correct no sunroof with the ST Edition 😎
No sunroof with any track packs apparently
@@cdg3818 true, no available with Track Pack.. ordered mine without a sunroof
Hi Sam What do you think about the Focus ST horsepower scandal. There have been cases where customers had dyno results of 200,220,250 HP, etc. I also ordered the ST Edition version 2 weeks ago
I have not heard of this scandal myself or noticed the power feeling any less the the 280ps quoted. I have driven many and they have always felt fast enough from my point of view 🙂
Put in Royal Purple XPR 0W30
Honestly? I like our frozen white Track Pack Focus way more. The Edition would look better with blue calipers. Coming to the Display - the OG graphics looks so much better. Don´t know why they changed that...
Frozen white is also a very special colour. Particularly in track pack variant with the gloss black extras. Many congrats on yours and Ford really do produce fantastic stand out colours for their Ford Performance cars 🎉
That new cluster is meh...previous is much more ST like
Agree. I have a 24 plate ST with previous dials. Much better.
There will still be fast fords but they will be EV so it is the last true combustion engine
Nice I love it 😊
Glad you like it! 🙂
Will never accept that this will be the last of his kind... Unbeliveable.....
I feel as long as there are enthusiasts around these cars that they will remain in some capacity in the long run. Just perhaps it will be more niche going forward and in limited numbers. Lets see what the future holds 👍
Thanks for making waiting for mine even more unbearable 😂
It will be worth the wait for sure and many congrats on your ST Edition order 🎉
I swear hahaha
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I have Mountune M330, would now have the M365, which wasn't about when I got my mk4 Orange Fury.
As ive said before this is an end of an era moment from ford. They seem to have turned their back on us hot hatch enthusiasts. Sorry but i just can’t get excited about a suv or crossover suv ( whatever they call them) lol. As a fellow golf r owner ( just collected my golf r20 a couple of weeks ago) i fear vw and other manufacturers are all heading in the same direction and as for ev’s they just aren’t an option for me because of where i live and my travel requirements. Petrolhead will have no new cars to look forward to in the future and we’ll have to start looking back to get our kicks. Used prices of hot hatches will be on the rise if u hold on to them for definite
I do have this feeling myself and am very happy to share this ST Edition on the channel. Many congrats also on your Golf R20 as that is also a very special car. I will continue to keep this type of ICE content going on my channel, particularly with my viewers and subscribers, whatever the future holds with the direction of the automotive industry. I also very much enjoy my hot hatches and sharing them with you all. For me they work so well for so many people as an all rounder. They are all the car you may ever need potentially 👍
At 40k i take a fk8 or fl5 any day
No space saver???
Correct, no space saver in this car.
Presumably doesn’t fit over the calipers?
i thought they were discontinuing the focus?
As far as I am aware the Focus is still on sale. However, heading into the future I am unsure for how long 🤔
The German Factory where they build the Focus closes end of 2025 & did say in article then no more Focus so probably be EV's from then on so £70k+ for a performance EV