[bluetoy]

The thing is that Ford doesn't concern themselves with the Sport compact "scene" Ford is a numbers company plain and simple. They sell plenty of Focuses. That's all you see. If they lose 5-10,000 sales to SRT-4 etc they don't care. They sell 50 billion Focuses to people looking for a cheap car. That's what Focus is in North America, It's a cheap entry level car. Why spend billions of dollars retooling factories to build a new Focus when the old one still sells all they can build.