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Personal Finance > Autos
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Best compact car: Ford Focus
graphic February 14, 2002: 11:06 a.m. ET

Roomy interior and snappy styling move Focus to the front.
By Jerry Edgerton
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NEW YORK (Money Magazine) - The Ford Focus breaks the small-car rules. No bland styling or tight interiors. Focus designers combined edgy, eye-catching design with a roomy interior and honest seating space for four in many models. Focus hatchbacks, sedans and wagons offer both maneuverability and a ride that's reasonably comfortable for a small car

Focus does give you one thing that you expect from small cars: high gas mileage. The EPA rates the 2.0-liter, 110-horsepower four-cylinder engine at 26 mpg in the city and 32 mpg on the highway when coupled with an automatic transmission; manual-transmission ratings are 28 mpg and 36 mpg.

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The ZX3 two-door hatchback with options lists for $15,435, but a good negotiator can get one for around $15,019. The MSRP for the LX sedan is $14,420, but the target price is just $14,034, or about $500 over the dealer's invoice cost and about $800 less than a comparable Honda Civic LX sedan.

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