Best Selling Car in the World
The MK1 made lots of headlines for all the good reasons throughout its life, motoring journalists continued to rave after Ford’s newly found success story, including on notable motoring platforms such as Top Gear and Men & Motors at the time. This continued through its production life and way beyond until this very day.
Since its launch the MK1 Focus has won over 60 awards, this includes 13 Car of the Year awards in Europe and North America. Something which no other car has achieved to date. In 2000 the Focus won Automobile magazine “Automobile of the Year”. In 2003 in Autocar magazine it was voted the best family car and subsequently a decade later in 2013 it was voted by Auto Express readers as the best car of the last 25 years!
The Focus sold successfully Globally more than ever was imagined during that nervous gestation period.
In North America it continued to be in the top ten most sold cars through its production over there, a real triumph considering the historic difficulties European manufacturers have had trying to ingress in the North American market.
In short the MK1 Focus was the best selling car in the world between 1999 and 2004. Although no exact numbers have been confirmed, it is strongly believed that over 5 million were produced over 10 years of production. The UK being one of the most popular markets having registered around 780,000 in over 6 years, almost supermini production territory!
This is one of the many reasons why we believe the MK1 Focus should be regarded as one of the greatest peoples’ cars of all time!