Ford Focus MK1 - How many left in UK? (Update) 

Gosh that must be factory fresh

It really is still smells like a new car the leather and all that the only modifications that I have done is lexus style back lights, lhd reversing light needing a red bulb for the fog light, map reading interior light, intermittent wipers, and finally a factory option dump valve, it needed new front tyres every 2,000 miles (Michelin pilots) I plan to keep it garaged until I retire about 20 years. I've not seen one on the road for years now.

@@johnblack1157respect. My fav version of my favourite car. That’ll only go up in value. Have you kept the original lights?

Yes all original parts are packed away safely including the original RS mats unused. the car is on axle stands wheels hanging on wall brackets. There was a waiting list and even back then I was made offers to give up the wait and thet them take my place in the que. Easily the best car I've ever owned it's like part of my family.

Sounds amazing and I'm pretty sure you will keep it that way :)

Keep hold of it! In a few years it will be like a mk 1 escort! Mad money

That is precisely the car I am thinking of when I refer to "the best". Well done for thinking right ahead, it's a fast ford and will always be desirable. However very strangely, I don't know of many ST170 owners who've had the foresight to do something like this. Especially the value of 80's and 90s fast fords.

Would you sell it though? Double edged sword because once it's gone, your probably never getting another like it.

better than money in the bank.

did see one with 21000 miles for 5k for sale. didnt last long.now sold

Lovely! I hope you are enjoying it :)

Amazing analysis! I might use that line with Beatrix down the line, not many conni cvts remaining.

As the MK1 focus is one of my most favourite cars and I take a picture of one every time I see it

There's way more than that at the moment :)

lovely at that mileage plenty of miles left :)

yup plenty of life left, needs some rust work on suspension bits but its the perfect first car :>@@usuallyfixingtinkering

I didn't know that Humans Rusted aha! But seriously add Insurance, CAZ and ULEZ zones to this list. Very sad.

Indeed. Still one of cars of choice in the banger racing up to 1600 cc class and to a lesser extent the 2 litre class ( now mk1 mondeos are running out). At the November Spedeworth 1600cc banger world final at Ipswich where qualifiers had to take a fresh car, of the c. 300 car overall entry, the event photos online show that there were c.100 freshly built Mk1 Focus' racing 😮 fifty of which 5 door hatch, 33 were 3 door hatch , 13 estate and 4 were 4 door saloon. Thankfully it looks like mark 4 and 5 Astras are starting to become most commonly used and presumably more readily available now. I guess many of the Focus's raced may have been in racer's stockpiles, but some may have come off the road in the last quarter. And that's just one meeting (albeit a major one) in a busy racing season across many tracks in the UK .

That is a deeply upsetting picture you've just revealed. I didn't know that one meeting could involve so many examples. This cannot be sustainable in a few years at that rate, which coincides with my figure of 2 years for a slowing of the rates of decline.

The banger boys sadly do not see the view point of preservation, if they did banger racing would not exist. It's very sad but eventually the supply will exhaust.

That might be a wise move as long as you find a good solid MK1 :) Laquer peel is cosmetic as long as it's a functional solid car that's the main thing!

thats a really low mileage :)

I'm afraid so... the likely answer to your question is probably not. There's many of them bought to be a good 2nd hand model. It's a lottery for the cars too, some of them will find good homes. Others won't.

Wow that's a very rare sight now!

ULEZ. All the Mk1's were manufactured to comply with superior EU emissions standards and they all do it. But they are super-taxed by Sadikh Khan just because they are not registered with an official piece of paper saying they are EURO 4. They pass all the tests and were designed to pass EURO 4 before it was a thing. They went on sale compliant with these standards. If a car passes an MOT that should be good enough. Sadikh is a tyrant.

Actually it can be but what I've seen is many are being displaced outside of ULEZ, and my figures are not suggesting a sharp increase in Diesels vanishing, it's pretty steady.

​​​@@Drew-DastardlyYou can technically apply to ford for a certificate of comformity if the original tested nox emissions was low enough for ulez and then submit that to tfl to apply for ulez exemption as it's not strictly required to be euro 4 to be ulez it's only based on the nox emissions. The channel MEC-TEC did it for his old ford puma and got it ulez exempt

being a 1.8 it will be in a minority and being a ghia very much less than 1000, towards 500 without my stats on me!

@@usuallyfixingtinkering thanks for that! Ya, I figured they're getting rare. Great car, unbelievable fun.....

I can see this happening in 4 years when demand outstrips supply and we all know what happens then!

I'll be able to answer that in May when yearly stats are out. But... it won't be definite be arsed the changeover happened over half way through 2001 :)

I didn't mention them because of all the models at this time I couldn't be certain of my figures. I will give a proper number in May when I'm 99% sure. No point giving information I know isn't accurate.

I was going to ask same question about sport but fair play waiting for all the info.

Wow that is very interesting!!!

@@usuallyfixingtinkering You’re welcome, 🙃 the only new car I have ever bought! When I decided to leave the USA 🇺🇸 after many years, the Focus would also leave with me, albeit in a container, with my personal items. 🌴🦩🍊

@@casualagent7250 what a special story! What engine?

@@usuallyfixingtinkering Nothing that exciting really, the car is basically an American ST 170. 🙃 170 bhp Zetec engine. Seen a couple of SVT’s advertised in the US, for around $10,000…..which is nice.

Wow I never knew they went for that much in the US!

Impossible to tell as they were registered as Zetecs on the Logbook, so are counted in the numbers of Zetecs.

114

@@usuallyfixingtinkeringit was hard to find a good one back in 2004 (when I bought mine), let alone now.

Since 2004 most have had their bumpers taken off and scrapped.

⁠@@usuallyfixingtinkeringyes, I can understand why. Along with the grille and rear spoiler, they are worth transplanting (chrome-tipped back boxes rusted). They were originally planned for the ST according to the rumours back in the day, however that model was delayed until the mk1 facelift so they launched the ZC instead. It would make sense as the Ka Collection (2000+), wasn’t a ‘sports’ model. That just had body-coloured bumpers and few more interior upgrades as standard. When I had mine FFZC, I searched for the Collection side skirts, but they were impossible to find. In the end I bought EGR ones, which were semi-official as some dealers were fitting the EGR kit.

My dad got a mark 1 white estate tdci nearly 200,000 miles quite a rare one

plenty but I cannot give figures on bodystyles as it's not accurate data sadly.

thats very cheap

@@usuallyfixingtinkering it's going to get scrapped on Saturday.

The RS numbers have been at the same level for years because people generally don't scrap them for obvious reasons, 75% still exist which is around 1700.

You'll find out in May, I will be able to give data on how many of a year and spec left.

Mine is2000 gear