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Hot estates are making a serious comeback of late. Forget the array of V8-powered Mercedes AMG wagons currently available, we're talking about mainstream family cars with a sting in their tail. The Skoda Octavia vRS has been around for a couple of years now, but you'll soon be able to buy a SEAT Leon Cupra ST, while a new Volkswagen Golf GTD Estate has been confirmed for the Geneva Motor Show in March.



Ford can claim some credit for the renewed interest - it's been offering a Focus ST Estate since 2012, and thanks to a recent series of mechanical and cosmetic updates, it should be better to drive and as practical as ever. It threw in a curveball for the facelift, too, because you can now order your fast Focus Estate with the choice of a 247bhp 2.0-litre EcoBoost petrol engine or a 182bhp 2.0 TDCi diesel. We drove the diesel ST hatch last month, so it's the petrol wagon we?re focusing on here.

From a purely practical point of view, the Focus Estate could well be all the car you ever need. Open the large tailgate and there?s 476 litres with the rear seats up, or a whopping 1,502 litres with them down, forming a perfectly flat load space. Compare that to 316 litres and 1,101 litres respectively for the hatchback and the benefits are easy to see.

OK, so there's a slight penalty in terms of price and performance - the Estate costs GBP1,100 more than the equivalent hatchback and takes 0.2 seconds longer to cover 0-62mph.

But remarkably, claimed fuel economy and CO2 emissions are identical at 41.5mpg and 159g/km respectively - an improvement of six per cent over the pre-facelift model thanks to the addition of stop-start. On public roads, the performance gap is impossible to spot. The Estate thunders down the road with the same force as the hatchback, and thanks to its rush of turbocharged acceleration feels even quicker than the numbers suggest.

Read more: Ford Focus ST Estate 2015 review | Auto Express

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