FOCUS ST SET FOR THE SWEENEY
Focus ST set for The Sweeney Hot Ford Focus ST is to brilliant in big awning accommodate of The Sweeney
Seventies TV archetypal The Sweeney is getting adapted for the big awning – and it will see bohemian cop Jack Regan block crooks in a Ford Focus ST, instead of the Granada from the original.
The cool hot bear should advice advance the determined acceptability of Regan, who coined the byword “Shut it you slaaaag!” as he apprehend armed robbers the anarchism act. He’s getting played by Cockney boxy guy Ray Winstone in the cine version.
The new Focus ST, apparent at the Frankfurt Motor Show endure month, is the firm’s hottest Focus yet. So apprehend to see some amazing on-screen stunts, address of the ST’s ablaze 247bhp 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder EcoBoost engine.
With an advancing 0-60mph dart time of just six seconds, it should be added than a bout for the break cars getting chased by the Flying Squad.
Ford’s able hotlink with the seventies Sweeney TV alternation saw Regan and George Carter (being played in the blur by rapper Ben Drew, aka Plan B) application a cord of Ford Granadas, Consuls and Cortinas.
Last month, six early-build Focus ST models – all atramentous – were secretly delivered to The Sweeney set, abutting Ford Mondeos, Galaxys and Transits for use as bare vehicles.
Sweeney Director and co-writer Nick Love, whose credits cover The Football Factory and The Firm, said: “It was important for me to coact with Ford on The Sweeney as their bequest with the aboriginal TV appearance is so strong.”
The ST goes on auction in the UK next summer, advanced of the blur premiere in the autumn.
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