wow! hellva lot better than 2007 interior!!! Lotta buttons and all. Its almost similar to all-new Escape and Mariner interiors.

NOW, YOU SHUT UP ABOUT HOW ITS CRAP AND ALL. ITS A POOR PICTURE. GO TO THE AUTO SHOW OR WAIT FOR IT TO COME TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEN COMMENT ON IT!!!!!

I know push-button starts are in, but damn! Not on the dash…

Oooo, I like the preemptive strike there.

whatever still a focus

Looks like a Chrysler dash, aka not good. I’ll take a pre-08 Focus if this is the best Ford can do.

It has that new center stack.

Sorry S-60-driver, but its still a. …****TY INTERIOR. ACRES upon ACRES of plastic and boring, unimaginative design make it look like crap. However maybe the real promo pics will look better than this spy photo.

did u read the article?? the end of it?? They may think its unfinished. Never know! Like i said, wait till the auto show if u live in michigan or till spring at the dealership!

that thing still looks like crap

does the panic button come standard?

seriously though, you can’t judge the “acres and acres” of plastic until they remove the film covering it. Unless it’s going to be that color white stuff.

okay to the ppl that critisze the plastic. WTF do u want? Leather and wood only apear on the dash on much higher quality vehicles. I mean i can understand that cheap plastics are nasty but jesus its an econobox thats what ur gonna get.

I don’t mind the acres of plastic – as stated it is an econobox. However, when I go to replace the econobox stereo with a nice Alpine unit, where does it go? IT DOESN’T!!! Bad design. You’re stuck with their crappy tunes.

Compare this or any other Focus interior to what you get in say a Honda Fit or Civic. The fit, finish and quality of materials in those cars blow anything Ford has away.

It’s thinking like megator’s that has gotten domestic automakers in the spot they are today. Just becuase the car is “cheap” relative to luxury models doesn’t mean it has to be poorly designed, and made with the cheapest materials. Even an “econobox” costs in the neighborhood of $15,000 which is a pretty good sized sum of money to anyone (if you disagree just go ask a multi-millionaire for that sum, since it’s so incosequential to them and watch them laugh in your face).

Why would anyone settle for an inferior product when spending this large sum of money? Only ignorance, indiference, studity and factory incentives sell these types of products.

You guys continue to bash Ford for everything they do…but when you look at this interior how can you say its not better than most of its competitors?
Chevy Aveo – Boring Interior, typical GM head unit
Dodge Caliber – Blocky and Boring
Hyundai Elantra – Once again boring compared to this interior..
Toyota Yaris – Youve gotta be an alien to like that styling
Toyota Corolla – Outdated
Kia Rio – Cheep looking
Scion Xb – just plain weird

The only interiors that may look nicer are Honda fit/civic and Mazda 3…..I like how Ford has used more of a volvo layout and the mazda information unit on the top….Its a lot more exciting than the previous focus and a lot more exciting than most of its competitors so quit bashing ford because their down…their new products prove that their going in the right direction!!!

no megator, look at the interior on a Rabbit/Jetta Value Edition, both in the price range of the focus, and youll see what an interior in this price range should signify.

By looking at the fog lamps (in the previous post) and the steering wheel controls, this seems to be the top of the line model, not the strippo version.
Although this picture might not represent the fit and finish of the final production run, the design should be final and its very disappointing.

Nothing spectacular, but it looks much improved over the current cars interior

The interior on the European Focus (yes, I know. one more time…) is both classier and looks better built, and it was designed three years ago (or however long ago). It looks like Ford NA went out of its way to make this cheap so they could cut manufacturing costs. Wouldn’t it be simpler to restructure factories to rebuild at least the interior of the European models? But, I need to stay on topic: new interior = Garbage. I can almost hear the hollow sound when you knock on plastic like that.

piece of crap! i actually chuckled to myself a bit…this is the best ford can do? that center stack is horrible, and i love how they tried to create a volvo-style “floating console.” ford, just save yourself some money and bring over the euro-focus!!!

Look at the euro focus interior, it even has a Sony stereo http://www.ford.com.mx/vehicles/know/photogallery.asp?idModel=FOC

Why does the US get its own Focus??? this Focus should be the replacement of the one that is currently in the US just like Australia, this one http://www.ford.com.au/servlet/ContentServer?cid=1137384155463&pagename=Page&c=DFYPage If they are going to name it the Focus it should look the same all over the world

As far as econoboxes go this is a great interior . The competition has really gone down hill lately The Civic is horrible with that two tier crap. And Toyota is loosing it with those center mounted speedometers. At least Ford isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel with the Focus

How the hell do you take a spy photo of an interior…???

@bneshev – guess the window was down? good point, though…these guys would have had to basically go into a windowless restaurant to eat to let a spy photographer get this shot.

I think if the top half is a different color then it’ll be cool.

If you darkened (grayed) that bright dashboard plastic, this thing could’ve come straight out of the late 80s/early 90s.

Now that I’m looking at it, what if the dash is body-colored? That would be pretty interesting.

Those air vents do scream 1989 for me though. And it looks like they lifted the IP from the escape.

Looks like it would fall apart in a second.

No matter what Ford does, an updated European Focus is still better than this heavily revised old model. Ford could have saved a bundle of development money with the real all new European Focus.

http://www.forddesktops.com/image.asp?f=focus&i=Ford_Focus_Mk2_41.jpg Current Euro Focus (05 on) is still better, Camut4ever is right…

Oh and new Euro Mondeo is a stunner inside:

http://www.forddesktops.com/show.asp?f=mondeo&i=Ford_Mondeo_2007_Wagon_10.jpg

I hope the Mk3 Euro Focus will follow the same trend, if not surpass it, in a few years time

Alright ive never understood this obsesion with interiors. I have sat in countless cars new and old and haven’t really been bothered by the quality of their plastics. i want a dash that is easy to use and looks clean and simple like this and not the crap in the new civic or yaris. I want a dash that doesnt ratle or squeeq and feels solid. if it has nasty shiny plastics i dont really care. the only distinction i can see is when u spend much more on cars like rollers and bentlys with wood in the dash and leather.

Meh…. I must say I’m not impressed. Then again it’s not the final product.

OK that’s it some one kick the designer in his nuts if it’s a she then the humiliate her to death.

I wonder if obvious bashers realize that they look, to a man, like idiots drowning in their own drool.

A blurry photo of a PROTOTYPE getting all this bile? Cease the moron-a-thon, twinks.

The point about lack of space for an Alpine unit is valid though Zanary!

ok, smart guy… do you know how much would have to change in order to make this “prototype” interior NOT total ****…. go back to jerking off to your *OVER RATED* gt500 posters… oooh my daddy who didnt love me used to have a ford and now ill be trying to gain his lost love by being a ford fan boy… ooooh i’m an american who loves american products.. oooohh… AMERICAN FORD IS ****

pezones…you’ve just given the world a pretty glaring look at some issues you apparently have. Seek help, and seek it now…and maybe have your father incarcerated (assuming you’ve ever, y’know, met him).

I just find it hilarious how much drool and bile gets invested in a blurry picture…and as for the Alpine unit, do you doubt they’ll adapt? The car audio industry is brilliant in their ways of overcoming packaging issues.

^ your an amazing person.
It amazes me how your soo immature.
It also amazes me how you makes gay sexual refrences in ALL of your posts. Every single one of them. This site could sure use less people like you around polluting these comment areas with your childish remarks. Go away.

That interior is too boring.

The interior of the European Fords are much better than anything ford has to offer in north america.

honestly i think i looks kinda volvo like

mblommel nailed it, unbelievable, you took the words RIGHT out of my mouth. Honestly, just because a car is an economy car has no impact on if the interior is ****ty or not. The Mazda3, the Honda Civic, the Honda Fit, the VW Rabbit, the Nissan Sentra, the Nissan Versa, and even the Toyota Corolla have interiors that blow this away. Oh and look, they’re all in the same price category. mblommel is right, $15,000 is still a lot of money compared to most things in life, even if its not a whole lot for a car, and just because its less than what you pay for other classes of vehicles doesn’t mean you have to be satisfied with mediocrity and inferior interior trim.

You guys keep comparing this to the Euro Focus but it’s really not better than the new Civic’s. I had to use one for 2 weeks straight and it wasn’t as fun as I thought it should be.

Dittos to mblommel.

I love picking up chicks in my Ford Focus.
Chicks focus their attention on me instead of the car.
Chicks practically jump off the car seat on to me.

Holly crap, what the hell is that!!!

man i think ford has a long way to go!

Ford interiors are crap next to any GM product. Nobody in the business can outdo the latest GM interiors. The build quality is just too superior for anyone to match.

…People keep complaining about the cheap plastic interior, of course its cheap plastic, its a $13,000 car, what did you expect, Mahogany and Walnut? C’mon people, name one car at its price point that doesn’t have cheap plastic interior. Heck, there are cars out there that cost 2x as much that have cheap plastic interiors.
A co-worker of mine bought a new Altima, that looks just as cheap and all plastic, ever look into a 300C for $30,000…all plastic.