Overall sports car market is down 12 percent, and Mazda MX-5 and Subaru BRZ did three times worse than that, but Toyota GR 86 and Nissan Z bucked the trend
The Focus was thesmall car that took Ford into the 21st century. Ford wanted to replicate the success of the Escort, which sold well around the world throughout the ’80s and ’90s. A few years before Ford settled on making the Focus its world car, the name graced a concept car in 1992.