Responding to the success of the three-door SVT Focus, Ford's Special Vehicle Team (SVT) will add an additional Focus model to its award-winning stable of high-performance cars: the 2003 five-door SVT Focus. The new offering melds SVT's performance and technology with the utility and packaging of Ford's popular Focus ZX5.
As SVT celebrates its 10th anniversary, the addition of the five-door SVT Focus rounds out the largest, most-diverse product line ever offered by Ford's high-performance group. The new five-door SVT Focus joins the 390-hp SVT Mustang Cobra coupe and convertible, the SVT F-150 Lightning -- the world's fastest production pickup -- and, of course, the recently launched three-door SVT Focus.
"Right now, SVT has more product, and better product, than at any other moment in its ten-year history, and our timing could not be better," said John Coletti, chief engineer of SVT. "We are in the middle of an industry-wide, high-performance renaissance. When I hear about other companies setting up performance shops like SVT, I always think, it's about time. This is the most exciting part of the business."
As the competition in the performance segment heats up, Ford's Special Vehicle Team will continue to be the industry's frontrunner, if also the target at which the newcomers are gunning.
In the past decade, SVT has established its name in the world of performance; it has become a profitable business group within Ford Motor Company and now boasts an owners' club, the SVT Owners Association (http://www.svtoa.com/) with more than 8000 members in nearly 50 chapters. SVT has sold more than 100,000 high-performance vehicles since 1993, each built true to the four hallmarks of the SVT design ethic: Performance, Substance, Exclusivity and Value.