The fourth generation Ford Focus is ready to take on
the Volkswagen Golf Mk8, which will arrive next year, and other models within
the popular compact segment. Nevertheless, if a recent report turns out to be true, then it won’t
only take on the hatch and sedan offerings, but some small pickup trucks, too.
If given the green light for production, then the
Ford Focus pickup would act like a replacement for the Courier. The latter was
assembled in Brazil, using the smaller Fiesta’s underpinnings as a starting
point, so the new model would be larger.
Details about it are scarce at the moment, but it’s
believed to go into production in Mexico, at the Blue Oval’s facility in
Cuautitlan, to avoid the so-called chicken tax that adds a 25 percent tariff on
imported trucks.
A launch in Europe is rumored too, but it’s hard to
tell whether Ford will use the shipping routes in the Atlantic Ocean, or if it
will produce it somewhere else. Regardless, if everything goes as planned, then
expect the Ford Focus pickup to arrive in the beginning of the next decade.
Until then, Kleber Silva took a digital shot at
imagining it, in a double-cab flavor, using the same front end and taillights
as the latest Ford Focus. Elsewhere, the vehicle has an increased ground
clearance, plastic cladding all around, roof bars and, of course, an open bed
at the rear. The Focus pickup was given a chrome red finish, as well as chrome
trim and underbody protection.
