Too bad more people don't drive cars with manual transmissions. Skipping the PowerShift automatic in the Focus and getting a stick instead eliminates one of the car's biggest annoyances. It also just ...

To paraphrase something that may or may not have been said by a guy who posthumously had an American luxury-car brand named after him: You can’t please all of the car-buying people all of the time.

The bottom line, up top: This latest Ford Focus is the best small car for sale in America today. The sedan pummeled four other runabouts in a recent comparison test, a victory made more impressive by ...