The 2012 Ford Focus, with its sleek European-inspired styling, tech-savvy features, and fuel-efficient performance, was a crowd-pleaser among early 2010s compact sedans. The 2012 Ford Focus Transmission, a contentious engineering feat, was at the centre of this machine. Formally referred to as the PowerShift dual-clutch gearbox, this part was designed to combine the effortless operation of an automatic gearbox with the captivating feel of a manual gearbox. But what emerged was a convoluted story of inventiveness tainted by contradiction.