Focus ST (ST-2)

Liam · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:26

Right, after giving it major thought and some research i've decided to start the hunt for an ST-2 Focus.

Ideally my budget is between £8-£9.5k really, looking for the ST-2 in the performance blue.

Having not purchased a car for over 5 years, where's a good place to start?

Thanks for any advice

Iceman · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:28

Auto trader and piston heads.

Cupra · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:29

avoid ebay

Liam · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:30

Cupra said:
avoid ebay

Funny you said that at that precise moment, I was scanning eBay and found loads.

rjk · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:36

are you dead set on the focus?

or is there room for movement?

Liam · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:38

rjkoneill said:
are you dead set on the focus?

or is there room for movement?

Not DEAD set so im happy for other recommendations. I'm ready to purchase, just don't want to rush into it and make the wrong choice

rjk · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:10

what kind of situation are you in?

family car required or could you go for a 2 seater?

Overlag · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:12

im also partly looking at a Focus ST. What sort of things should we look out for?

Liam · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:14

rjkoneill said:
what kind of situation are you in?

family car required or could you go for a 2 seater?

Family car not needed, just me and the girlfriend and enough room for shopping

My current Focus has a massive boot and I like the idea of that.

alexisonfire · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:14

I was looking at this one, but have decided to go for a different car, seems like a decent example

http://www.revitupuk.com/car.php?id=335

Liam · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:16

alexisonfire said:
I was looking at this one, but have decided to go for a different car, seems like a decent example
http://www.revitupuk.com/car.php?id=335

That's very nice for the price actually, low mileage against some I have seen.

Spamalot · 3 Jan 2011 at 02:03

Bummer said:
Family car not needed, just me and the girlfriend and enough room for shopping My current Focus has a massive boot and I like the idea of that.

You'd get a nice Boxster S for your budget. Would tick all boxes above, you even get two boots.

Tute · 3 Jan 2011 at 02:05

The main bugbear of this car seems to be that it drinks like a fish.

rjk · 3 Jan 2011 at 02:20

curveball...

350z?

Stormster · 3 Jan 2011 at 03:06

That revitup place have some corkers often for sale, they seem to find some good cars, been looking on there myself.

I'd love a Focus ST but I don't think I could justify the fuel costs.. shame as everything else is cheap enough regarding them.

Sparky · 3 Jan 2011 at 07:01

Just as a guideline, paid £8500 for mine with 30,000 miles,one owner FFSH.
They are not great on fuel but you can get 30mpg.

MrMoonX · 3 Jan 2011 at 09:55

CS||nuTs said:
Just as a guideline, paid £8500 for mine with 30,000 miles,one owner FFSH.
They are not great on fuel but you can get 30mpg.

if u dont touch the accelerator, dont think I have ever seen mine go over 27mpg unless I have just reset the mpg thingy

MikeHiow · 3 Jan 2011 at 10:38

You can easily exceed 30MPG on a run without trying, but around town expect 20MPG, then anything more is a bonus

Five_Star · 3 Jan 2011 at 18:47

Ours is a 07 prefacelift and if I had the chance now I'd get a facelift one, might be a bit more than the one found above but worth it in my opinion.

You get a new dash style which I prefer and the push button start plus some other styling tweaks like a rear defuser.
With the ST-2 you don't have the option of leather seats but you do get 5 usable seats where as the ST-3 only has 4

In reality your looking at 25MPG

Jono8 · 3 Jan 2011 at 18:52

Just got one of these aswell. Paid £8000 for an 06 reg ST-2, performance blue, FSH (one owner from new) with 55,000 miles from a Ford dealer with 0 % finance (half paid up-front)

Lovely car, and the only real downside is fuel consumption. Not a big deal for me as i will only be doing 6-7k miles a year in it but my general commute to work and back only nets me about 23 MPG ( I saw 31 MPG driving it home on the motorway though!!

). I was coming from a Celica (140bhp) and at the moment it is only costing me about £20 more a month in fuel, so

Ofcourse now i'm incredibly tempted to get the bluefin stage 1 remap for it!