Ford's Special Vehicle Team is the quintessential American factory tuner, known for tweaking handbuilt V-8s to within inches of their lives. If you've got a predilection for high-strung four-bangers ...

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 ...

The beauty of blowing up your car is that it provides an opportunity to change all the parts you never thought you'd get to. Since we destroyed the engine in Project Focus SVT right after writing Part ...