The Rizk absorbs all the aggregation of modern componentry and still manages to have soul at speeds a modern hot-hatch would laugh at.

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To set the table a bit: The Focus ST is what's known as a sport-compact, or a hot hatch, a category of performance-minded variants of what are generally pretty routine, practical hatchbacks.

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