It's something of an SCC tradition to start project car updates with a long list of excuses why the update is so late. Instead, let's flip that around a bit and explain why we finally got around to ...

So there I was, in the driver's seat of a fairly pedestrian, garden-variety stock Ford Focus hatchback, lined up side-by-side on an empty street with a tuned-to-the-gills SVT Focus hatchback, engines ...

If editorial stupidity tends to stick in your mind, you probably remember the very specific goal we set for our SVT Focus. Drunk with one too many project car successes, we decided we should try to ...