RE: Ford Focus 1.6 Ecoboost Zetec S (2012) CAR review

 I have a 1.6 TDCI Titanium estate as a company vehicle with around 1300 miles on and its lovely a very satisfying drive. Dont let this article put you off the technology is easy to understand and mostly very useful. I also have a seat exeo estate the same age with around the same mileage and I always prefer the focus. 

RE: Ford Focus 1.6 Ecoboost Zetec S (2012) CAR review

I rather agree that there's not enough 'meat' to this piece, from a motoring perspective, anyway.  I also agree with Mr FFC that the centre console controls look bloody awful.  Huge garish bits of shiny 'metallic' plastic are never attractive!

RE: Ford Focus 1.6 Ecoboost Zetec S (2012) CAR review

I have a different view. I happen to like the style and tone adopted by A-FfC; it's irreverent, and while some prose is rather concocted, he can throw our some fabulous lines which make me laugh out loud. Articles don't always have to be factual (see WIlliam Woolard, Top Gear, c.1977) or emotional (Troy Queef school of writing). Sometimes it's nice to read a different take on a car article.

I echo his thoughts in many ways - the car is but a sad echo of the Mk 1. That car had fabulous exterior styling, and while its interior wasn't top drawer, it had some styling consistency. The new car - both indise and out - is overwrought with too much fussy detail. How can they broadly get it right with the Fiesta (just staying on the right side of fussy) but goof it up with the new Focus? This is the first version which simply disappears off my radar. Paraphrasing Churchill, this is a modest car with much to be modest about. That's a real shame.  

RE: Ford Focus 1.6 Ecoboost Zetec S (2012) CAR review

"Don’t get me wrong, the new Ford Focus is still a hell of a car for a C-segment hatch, and largely a fantastic drive. But I can’t help feeling that it’s currently just being meddled with for the sake of adding something, anything, new to each successive generation…" I got to the end. Yes, this is true. And for reference see the Cortina article elsewhere. I wonder what would happen if manufacturers started asking focus group participants about offering fewer gadgets, just as a test. Could they conceive of a business model where less would do? "Here´s a Focus sized car for £8,000...we still make lots of money on it, it´s well made but we´ve pulled out all the unimportant stuff..." Worth having: an efficient, effective engine, a good chassis, good controls and good seating and sufficient room inside for goods and people. Spray it a nice colour and make some pretty fabrics available. That´s my model.
 

RE: Ford Focus 1.6 Ecoboost Zetec S (2012) CAR review

 Golly. I read some bad journalism but this is appalling. What on earth does that second sentence even mean? You have to spend some time wandering around its tortuous syntax, and then... nope. Still no idea what this means, beyond conjuring some unpleasant and utterly irrelevant image. 

Then:

"I know hatchback buyers all want rafts of premium toys these days (well, I actually only know that because that’s what the manufacturers tell me the thoroughly clinic’ed punters want, and I can just hear the key question now: ‘Would you like, a) loads of trick driver assistance and safety systems, b) nothing, c) a smack in the face with a week-old mackerel?’),"

[tumbleweed]

Nope, sorry, you lost me back at 'these days'.

Come on CAR, you can do a lot better than this.