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Car Of The Day: June 15, 2017; Johnny Lightning '03 Ford Focus
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Topic Started: Jun 15 2017, 10:00 PM (434 Views)
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Jun 15 2017, 10:00 PM
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Today's Car Of The Day comes from Brett's collection and is Johnny Lightning's 2003 Ford Focus.

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The Ford Focus is a compact hatchback (C-segment in Europe) manufactured by the Ford Motor Company since 1998. Ford began sales of the Focus to Europe in July 1998 and in North America during 1999 for the 2000 model year. The Focus replaced the Ford Escort and Ford Laser.

For more information and pictures of the real car, please visit: Ford Focus

One of the many former Racing Champions castings pressed into service as an 'all new' Johnny Lightning.

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Codenamed CW170 during its development, and briefly known to some Ford contractors as the Ford Fusion, the original Focus took its eventual name from a Ghia concept car which was shown at the Geneva Motor Show in 1991. Certain elements of the design had been seen even earlier in prototypes used by Ford to demonstrate forthcoming safety features, such as the eye-level rear lighting clusters. As a continuation of Ford's New Edge styling philosophy, first seen in the Ford Ka in 1996, and Ford Cougar in 1998, the Focus' styling had been often described as polarising. The styling had been overseen by Jack Telnack and executed by Claude Lobo and Australian designer, John Doughty.
The decision to name the new car the Ford Focus was made in early 1998, as Ford's overheads had been planning to keep the "Escort" nameplate for its new generation of small family cars. A last minute problem arose in July 1998 when a Cologne court, responding to a case brought by the publishers Burda, ordered Ford to avoid the name "Focus" for the German market cars since the name was already taken by the publisher's Focus magazine. This eleventh hour dispute was overcome, however, and the car was launched without a different "German market" name.

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Ford began marketing the Focus in October 1999 for model year 2000 initially as 3-door hatchback, 4-door sedan and 5-door wagon – with a 5-door hatchback debuting for model year 2002 model at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto. The Focus became one of the ten best-selling cars in America shortly after its introduction.
Focus models had been designed under the directorship of Richard Parry-Jones and were noted at introduction for their styling, class-leading rear suspension and tall interior packaging – as well as a stiff and light body structure, low-friction steering and suspension, and extensive safety and convenience features including driver and passenger airbags, available head-and-chest side air bags, rear ISOFIX child-safety seat attachments, safety belt system with pre-tensioners and load-limiting retractors, battery saver to automatically switch off lights after 10 minutes, interior theater dimming, and flip-up/flat-folding rear seat cushions.
The Focus' styling, often noted as polarizing, was marketed by Ford as New Edge design. The design language had been overseen by Jack Telnack and Claude Lobo and executed by Australian designer, John Doughty. In 2000, Karl Brauer, writing for Edmunds.com described the styling: "While ergonomically sound, the Focus' interior, like its exterior, displays much of Ford's New Edge philosophy that had editors split on loving or hating it." Sherri Koucky, writing for MachineDesign.com said the styling "mixes round shapes with funky geometric ones and adds sharp angles, somehow making them all work together." James R. Healey, writing for USA Today, called the styling a "collision of curves and lines." After the international Ford Focus, which shared styling with North American models, had won the prestigious European Car of the Year (1999), William Diem of the New York Times wrote, "To some extent, the prize vindicates Ford's risky design for the Focus, especially the New Edge styling -- a combination of straight lines, curves and planes.
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ivantt
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Jun 16 2017, 01:36 AM
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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I missed this one, but I'll be on the lookout for one from now on.
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Jun 16 2017, 01:52 PM
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Fullsize
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It's beauty!
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Jun 16 2017, 05:15 PM
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Pony Car
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tempting...
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Jun 16 2017, 05:58 PM
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I was non-plussed before...I still am. I'm happy to see others appreciate it, I will leave those I find for you.
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Jun 16 2017, 08:25 PM
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I was non-plussed before...I still am. I'm happy to see others appreciate it, I will leave those I find for you.
Wes,is that a very nice way of saying" keep your junkmobile"?
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Jun 20 2017, 01:45 PM
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Muscle Car
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- Jun 16 2017, 01:36 AM
I missed this one, but I'll be on the lookout for one from now on. Johnny Lightning also used the Focus as a police car. Other than the odd lightbar placement and sunroof, I really liked the look of this one.

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Jun 24 2017, 07:21 PM
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Station Wagon
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this is one of my least favorite Johnny's- it's way too big, even bigger than the too big Mbx version. I do like the police markings on the other version. Great pix and info though.
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