More than 1.9 million unhappy customers who purchased or leased a Ford Focus or Fiesta say the company lied to unload cars with faulty transmissions on unsuspecting buyers and then blamed the drivers ...

The six-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission Ford launched in the U.S. with the Fiesta and Focus has had a seriously troubled life from early drivability and reliability problems that eventually ...

I'd call it an open secret in the world of cars but for the fact that everyone knows about it: the dual-clutch transmission in the last-generation Ford Fiesta and Focus was an utter disaster. The ...

Those last-generation Ford Focus and Fiesta models are no longer found on dealer lots, but they're still on the roads and many still carrying the automaker's faulty dual-clutch transmissions. In the ...

Michelle Hughes' red 2012 Ford Fiesta is running better. The way that happened is extraordinary. Ford's North American powertrain executive quality manager, identifying himself only as “an engineer,” ...

More than 1.9 million unhappy customers who purchased or leased a Ford Focus or Fiesta say the company lied to unload cars with faulty transmissions on unsuspecting buyers and then blamed the drivers ...