Federal safety regulators have opened an investigation of nearly a million Ford, Mercury and Lincoln midsize sedans over whether the power-assisted steering can suddenly fail. The probe covers ...

Hundreds of owners report problems with their cars' electrical systems, with the electric steering system being a particular pain point. Scores of owners have claimed that their Focus' power ...

including the compact Focus. NHTSA said at the time that it received 508 complaints alleging that the cars lost power-assisted steering, causing increased steering effort. Ford also is recalling ...

Jeremy Clarkson of BBC's "Top Gear" said, in a review of the Ford Focus ST, that cars with electric power steering tended to understeer, a claim that doesn't make much sense when you compare the ...

The issue is more acute the longer you've been driving, as you might expect, since the cause is technological progression—specifically, power steering ... of products (the Focus, Mondeo ...

Seeing as many vehicles switched from hydraulic power steering to electric power steering by the mid-2000s, fewer and fewer cars have power-steering fluid anymore. (Only the hydraulic systems use ...

We publish dozens of car features every year in Mustang Monthly, but many times we get cheated out of the cool down-low shots because of unsightly power-steering hoses hanging in the slipstream.