The new Ford Focus will have plenty of technology on its side too, including Perpendicular Parking, an additional hands-free parking technology to help drivers reverse into spaces alongside other vehicles – a first for Ford.

Further new technologies available include:

• Cross Traffic Alert warns drivers of oncoming vehicles as they revers out of a parking space
• Park-Out Assist helps steers the car out of a parallel parking space; the driver simply operates the accelerator and brake