Category: Convertibles 
Price Range: £20,745 to £24,745
Drives well, feels more expensive than it is.
Poor rear legroom, petrol engines struggle.
Good enough to elbow its way into an overcrowded marketplace.
The Focus is so late to the folding-hardtop party that the Twiglets have all gone and there are fag butts floating in the glasses.
But if you've been waiting for the Ford version of what has become a very familiar format, you've not been wasting your time. The Coupe-Cabriolet shows that Ford has studied Peugeot and Renault's pioneering folding-hardtops and figured out how to overcome some of those cars' weaknesses. Meanwhile, Vauxhall's Astra TwinTop has arrived and VW's slightly more upmarket Eos has narrowed the gap between these compact hatchback-based CCs and bigger, more expensive alternatives such as the Saab 9-3, BMW 3-Series, Audi A4 and Volvo C70.
The Focus Coupe-Cabriolet has a two-piece metal roof that takes 29 seconds to stow in the boot at the push of a button. As with all such cars, that means a huge boot becomes a small boot. However, the rear seats are at all times severely restricted.
There are three engines: 1.6 and 2.0-litre petrols and a four-cylinder 2.0-litre diesel. There are also three trim levels - dubbed CC-1, CC-2 and CC-3 - but not all the engines are available with all the trim levels.
The Focus CC is built in Italy by Pininfarina (who also built the Ford StreetKa), using much of the front end of the three-door Focus hatch, the floorpan of the four-door saloon, and suspension components from the Focus ST. Although it's clearly a member of the Focus Mk2 family, there are many differences, including a prominent chrome strip across the rear end, more chrome on the inside, a new nose and new colour schemes inside and out.
On sale in the UK from October, the range starts at just under £17,000 and goes up to just over £20,000, following the pattern of the TwinTop, its key rival.
