Ford Focus Hatch, Mk3
Still the best-handling car in its class, wrapped in a cabin that the 2014 facelift finally made bearable.
Overview
The Mk3 is the hatchback Ford Focus, built 2011–2018 and facelifted in 2014. 2 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €1,700–€5,400, and 0 of the 2 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The 1.6 TDCi T1DA is both the cheapest way in, from €2,300, and the lowest-risk engine of the range, which makes it the obvious starting point. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.
Ford Focus hatchback (Mk3) · photo Ford Focus Trend (III) – Frontansicht, 17. September 2011, Ratingen by M 93 · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
| Body style | hatchback | Production | 2011–2018 |
| Platform siblings | Mk3 Estate wagon | Facelift (LCI) | 2014 |
Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 2011–2013
The 2 variants sold before the 2014 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.
| Badge↕ | Engine | Fuel | Years↕ | Power↑ | Torque↕ | Risk↕ | Issues | Price band↕ | Good buy↕ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 TDCi | T1DA | diesel | 2011–2013 | 115 PS | 270 Nm | R3 | 4 | €1,700–€4,600 | €2,300 | Buy w/ conditions |
| 1.0 EcoBoost | M1DA | petrol | 2012–2013 | 125 PS | 200 Nm | R3 | 3 | €1,850–€4,950 | €2,500 | Buy w/ conditions |
Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 2014–2018
The 2 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.
2 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.
| Badge↕ | Engine | Fuel | Years↕ | Power↑ | Torque↕ | Risk↕ | Issues | Price band↕ | Good buy↕ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 TDCi | T1DA | diesel | 2014–2018 | 115 PS | 270 Nm | R3 | 4 | €1,850–€5,050 | €2,500 | Buy w/ conditions |
| 1.0 EcoBoost | M1DA | petrol | 2014–2018 | 125 PS | 200 Nm | R3 | 3 | €2,000–€5,400 | €2,750 | Buy w/ conditions |
Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →
Model-year availability
Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.
| Variant | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 TDCi T1DA | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| 1.0 EcoBoost M1DA | ◐ | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
● full year · ◐ arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2014 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.
Rating map, price against risk
Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.
Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.
Prices across the range
Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.
Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. ST/RS cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.
Every standard engine · cheapest first · 1.6 TDCi T1DA highlighted as best value
at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile
Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these
Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.
Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 2 times: ST/RS cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.
Buying summary
Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.
Buy a facelift car if you can, because the 2014 update fixed the button-covered dashboard that defined the early ones. Best value: 1.6 TDCi, though it wants its oil changes because the turbo feed is the weak point. The 1.0 EcoBoost is better than it sounds and the one to check for coolant history. Be careful with the PowerShift automatic, which has the same poor record here as in the Mondeo.
Cheapest and dearest in this chassis
The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.