2014 Ford Focus ST for sale – Tangerine Scream – 6-speed manual – under 30,000 original miles – near pristine collector condition.
I’ve owned great cars over the years – Porsche Turbo… Corvette Z06 – but none has ever held the balance of art, muscle, and civility quite like this one.
This 2014 Ford Focus ST — finished in Tangerine Scream, the color that launched a thousand magazine covers — wasn’t just a hot hatch. It was my wife’s car, and she’s an artist. That matters. Because this car has never been abused, never flogged, never “tuned,” chipped, or treated like a toy. It was driven with grace and precision, as one might handle a favorite brush or a perfect lens.
That’s why it still gleams. That’s why it still feels factory-tight. And that’s why, more than a decade later, it has fewer than thirty thousand original miles — most of them gentle, all of them with careful love.
29,266 Original Miles. October 5, 2025
What Makes the 2014 Special
Ford built this Focus ST for drivers who still wanted to feel something through the wheel — before the age of digital filters and algorithmic throttles dulled things down.
The 2014 model sits in the sweet spot of the lineage: the first of the global STs, unfiltered and pure. Just a short-throw six-speed and a turbo four that sings with a hint of mechanical rasp — the sound of the last truly analog generation.
In later years Ford softened it. Made it friendlier, quieter, safer for the masses. But in 2014, the engineers still had Europe’s Nürburgring in their blood. The steering is hydraulic in feel even though it’s electric, the chassis taut but never punishing, and the torque vectoring makes every corner feel like a secret shared between you and the road.
It’s a car that was built before anyone talked about “driver engagement.”
It just engaged.
About That Color — Tangerine Scream
Every marque has one paint that becomes legend. Ferrari has Rosso Corsa. Porsche has Guards Red. Ford, for its brief, brilliant hot-hatch era, had Tangerine Scream.
It wasn’t a simple orange. It was a three-stage metallic pearl — hand-mixed pigments that flip from deep amber to gold fire depending on the light. In the coastal sun of Pebble Beach it glows like something alive, catching reflections off the Pacific. It’s the one color Ford charged extra for, the one used in every press photo and launch campaign.
It’s also rare. Few buyers were brave enough to order it new, and fewer still kept theirs almost pristine. Most were daily-driven, modified, wrapped, or worn. Ours wasn’t.
This ST lived its life garaged, covered, and loved — an artist’s companion, not a commuter’s mule.
Numbers That Matter
252 horsepower. 270 pound-feet of torque. Zero to sixty in just under six seconds. But you already know all of that.
What matters more is how it feels — the immediacy of the throttle, the tight gate of the shifter, the subtle turbo whoosh when you roll on at 3,000 rpm and it surges forward like a big cat stretching after a nap in the sun.
It rides on almost new Firestone Firehawk AS V2 tires [less than a thousand miles], perfectly matched to the chassis balance. No codes, no warning lights, no history of “check engine” anxiety. In a word, it’s healthy. Or as I like to say, it’s never been sick.
The steering wheel has its fine-grained leather intact, caressed by an artist’s hands. The Recaro bolsters still grip without creak or wear. And they’ve been covered since the day we bought it in Kona, Hawaii, where it was born to us. The boost gauge needle still swings like a metronome. This is a car that’s lived indoors, breathed clean air, and never been forced to prove anything.
Why It’s Collectible Now
In 2025, Ford stopped building the Focus entirely.
The ST name — once a badge of real engineering pride — quietly retired with it. That makes this car one of the last of its kind: a manual-only, front-drive, turbocharged hatch tuned by people who still knew what “fun” meant in the seat of your pants.
Collectors have noticed. Cars & Bids, Bring a Trailer, and every serious hot-hatch forum now treat the early STs — especially Tangerine Scream examples — as the “last honest Fords.”
And the 2014 model, with its pure geometry and minimal driver aids, has become the connoisseur’s choice.
Most of the others, of course, have been driven hard. That’s what they were built for. But not this one.
This one was driven carefully and well.
Life in Hawaii and Pebble Beach and…
We lived first in the shadow of the Mauna Kea Golf Course, on the Big Island of Hawaii, then just down the road from the concours lawns of Pebble Beach, where so many great cars have come to rest after their long, low-mileage lives on the road. Every time I saw them — polished, admired, remembered — I thought about how few of them were truly original anymore. And then I’d open the garage door, see that flash of orange-gold, and smile.
This Focus ST never needed to be a show car. It was simply right from the day it was built.
A driver’s car. A designer’s car. An artist’s car.
Why It’s Time
It’s time now – as we head to Europe [Switzerland] and Asia [the Philippines and Palawan] – for someone else to feel what we have felt. Someone who knows – or wants to know – what a perfect shift feels like and what a color can do to your heart at sunset, and sunrise, and in the middle of the night…
If you know, you know.
And if you don’t, you may be about to find out.
Because this isn’t just another used hatchback.
It’s a piece of an era that’s gone — preserved, bright, and utterly alive.
It’s Tangerine Scream, and it’s still screaming.
So… if you want to start this conversation, click on the key…
AND GET READY TO SCREAM.
2014 Ford Focus ST for sale – Tangerine Scream – 6-speed manual – under 30,000 original miles – near pristine collector condition.