{"id":5200,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:29:48","slug":"detroit-2010-ford-reveals-new-focus-hybrid-and-phev-coming-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"Detroit 2010: Ford reveals new Focus, hybrid and PHEV coming in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Next-gen Ford Focus live unveiling \u2013 Click above for high-res image gallery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/\">Ford&#x27;s<\/a> press conference this morning at the <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/category\/Detroit-Auto-Show\/\">Detroit Auto Show<\/a>, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/focus\">2012 Focus<\/a> was rolled out publicly for the first time anywhere. We have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/11\/2011-ford-focus-unveiled-u-s-and-euro-models-finally-unite\/\">a full report on the new compact here<\/a>, but product development VP Derrick Kuzak and Chairman Bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/\">Ford<\/a> dropped a couple of new details. Kuzak made it official that after the Focus launches with the new 2.0-liter direct injected inline-four, it will eventually also get an Ecoboost engine as well. The 1.6-liter Ecoboost will be available globally in the Focus. In 2011, production of the battery-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/focus+electric\/\">Focus Electric<\/a> will also begin at the Michigan Assembly Plant.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Ford announced that the plant in Wayne will also produce the next-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/plug-in+hybrid\/\">plug-in hybrid<\/a> systems beginning in 2012. Ford would not reveal which models would get the new hybrid powertrains, however, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/escape\">Escape<\/a> is expected to be replaced by a version of the next-generation Kuga, which is also derived from Ford&#x27;s C-segment platform. If so, this is the first time we&#x27;ve heard that it would be produced at the Wayne plant.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Ford]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/11\/detroit-2010-ford-reveals-new-focus-hybrid-and-phev-coming-in\/<\/p>\n<p>2010-01-11T10:01:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next-gen Ford Focus live unveiling \u2013 Click above for high-res image gallery<br \/>\nAt Ford&#x27;s press conference this morning at the Detroit Auto Show, the new 2012 Focus was rolled out publicly for the first time anywhere. We have a full report on the new\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10207,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/10207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}