I work in sales for a ford dealer. It's not true that we were not allowed to register any cars before January, there were plenty registered in December so they could be prepared for test drives etc. Anyway, the dealer has purchased the car from Ford, it's the dealers property, they can register it whenever they like. Ford's own employee's have been driving new focus's on uk roads since november! These are the cars that eventually end up on the "Ford Direct" official used car program from Ford. With my knowledge of the industry as a whole I would be willing to bet money that the cars ad