Happy New Year to everyone out there in cyber space...I hope the '20s bring you as much joy, happiness, and car bliss as the teens have delivered. For today's post I want to ask a simple question -- what is the best used car to buy from the 2010-2019 decade? I'm not sure my choice is the "BEST" car of the decade, but it offers a fabulous bang for the buck. Find this 2013 Ford Focus ST offered for $12599 in SF Bay Area, CA via craigslist.
Four thousand smackeroos doesn't buy you much in a late model performance car these days, but you can get a Mini Cooper S or a Fiat 500 Abarth if you find something with a questionable title status or high miles...but if hot hatches are your jam, I suggest checking out a high mile SVT Ford with a manual box. Find this 2003 Ford Focus SVT offered for $3999 in San Diego, CA via craigslist.
The term hot hatch is tossed about like gonorrhea in a college co-ed dorm building, but what does it really take to be a hot hatch. First, you need a hatch. And then you need powahhhhh....maybe! What you need in a fast hatch is something that is equally at home in a parking lot dodging shopping carts or cones...and for that you need handling. Find this 2004 Ford Focus SVT offered for $2,500 in Houston, TX via craigslist. 
Find this 2006 Ford Focus C-Max TDCi here on eBay offered for $6,500 buy-it-now or make-offer located in Alexandria, VA. Tip from Sam.
The visceral experiences of driving are slowly being taken away from us sense by sense. In economy cars, we’re faced with a pretty flaccid selection of 1.6 to 2.4 liter four cylinder powerplants that have had all of their idiosyncrasies and power peaks normalized out. Ford, though not immune to offering boring engine options, at least provides the possibility of getting a boosted one liter triple in the Fiesta and Focus. Sounding like a turbocharged vintage triple bike when some resonating equipment is removed, the 1.0 is pretty rorty when opened up. Having driven one as a rental in Germany, I can say that the noise from in the cabin and the slight added vibration of the three makes driving the car a hoot. Row your own gears in this 2015 Ford Focus 1.0L EcoBoost 6 speed on craigslist in Sharon, CT for $13,000. This
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Ford was really late to the party on the front-drive sport compact thing with their Focus SVT...albeit, not as late as GM with the Cobalt SS, but being the second loudest drunken idiot at the party doesn't exactly make you a saint. Like the selection of available dates on Kentucky's state funded tinder app, it's all relative. Find this 2002 Ford Focus SVT here on eBay offered for $7,500 buy-it-now or make-offer. Tip from mrkwong. This
post is part of DT's 2016 Birthday Celebration of 100 cars;
enjoy the ride!
Take a quick look at this 2003 Ford Focus ZTS with 2.3 liter engine and 5-speed manual gearbox here on eBay bidding for $750 with auction ending on Monday.
Is a sleeper still sleepy if it's wearing an eyeball-searing color? This rear-drive Focus uses a 5.0-liter Windsor V8 and transmission from a 1993 Cobra, plus a ton of custom fabrication to make it fit under the stock Focus bodywork. It all comes together with exceptional handiwork that looks like a factory job. You can't miss it, but you definitely won't expect it either. Find this 2001 Ford Focus with SVT Cobra V8 swap for sale here on eBay
or craigslist in Philadelphia, PA for $13,500 via craigslist. 
Famous psychedelic poster artist Peter Max Finkelstein is quoted as saying: I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. The same can be said about buying a used custom car -- I don't know where this car is going to end up, I'm just driving it until the next 
bidding for $17,001 reserve-not-met with 4 days to go, from Galpin Motors located in North Hills, CA.
Typically when we find a car that we've already posted, we put a quick update and list the car as a repeat offender, but today's feature is for a car that was first seen almost a year ago and includes a serious number of new photos. Plus, it is a V8 rear drive converted Ford Focus. Find this 2000 Ford Focus V8
currently bidding for $10,000 reserve-not-met with 3 days to go on ebay, located in Holland, MI. 
Horsepower has its price. You pay for it even when you aren't using it, a conundrum that is central to developing technology like forced induction and cylinder deactivation. But what if there was a way to have extra horsepower by literally flipping a switch? That's right, N2O means exactly what you think it means. Better yet, it's all stock and extremely rare; this is #88 of 88 for the pre-facelifted Saleen Focuses. Find this 2004 Saleen N2O Focus for $10,500 in Chicago, IL. Words by DT contributor slowcarSLOW-MPGlol.
Here at the Daily Turismo we love to embrace the lunatic fringe. Not just because we are people who revel in the absurd, but also because it simply makes a more thrilling narrative. For instance, conventional wisdom says that anything above 300 horsepower in a front drive street car is just a waste, so one could expect that at 400 hp, a front driver is nuts, at 500 horsepower it is scary and at 600 horsepower it is worthy of a feature. Find this 2002 Ford Focus 
The Ford Focus was a big success when it replaced the aging Escort and was lauded as the arrival of European handing/flair to the American econo-hatch. This was marketing nonsense and hyperbole dreamed up by press pundits, as the basic Focus was a plasticy piece of crap, but with the arrival of the SVT model, some of that much anticipated fun was finally delivered. Find this 2004 Ford Focus SVT for sale in Milpitas, CA for $8,200 via craigslist. Tip from...you guessed it...Kaibeezy.
Open the hood on most economy cars and you will find a 4 cylinder engine transverse mounted and mated to the front wheels. This 2002 Ford Focus SVT located in Los Angeles, CA and found on ebay is offered with a V8 and rear wheel drive for $15000 buy-it-now price on ebay.