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General => General discussion => Topic started by: wolfrace on 01 December 2003, 15:07
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I'm no Jeremy Clarkson but I just got my courtesy car while mine is being repaired after a rear end shunt. They've given me a Ford Focus for a week.
First impressions? Nice ride and everything is new but it feels..I dunno? On the cheap? Tacky? Plastic? Fragile? My dear old VW Golf (bless her) feels like a solid peice of craftmanship. I think Nirvana when driving the Golf, whereas I think Steps when I drive the Focus. No what I mean? A short shelf life and a sell by date? No substance and all show. If it was an excellent car I would definitely say so but sorry I'm not that impressed with it? But thats my opinion and you are welcome to disagree!!
Looking forward to getting my Golf back on the road.
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Bland boring sh!t :o
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just like most of ur posts '6
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Nah like your face :-*
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least i got the guts to show it....
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I know you lot dont really care but the Focus seat belts aren't long enough for baby seats either. You cannot put a newborn carseat in a focus. Not that I would want too LMAO. ;D ;D
Sam xxxx
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I have to say, when I finally grow up enough and I end up having kids, there's no way I'll put them in a Focus - You'd never stop them crying!!!!
I had one as a courtesy car also, and as well as it handled, I couldn't live with the interior. It is not only disguisting to look at, but it is horrible to the touch as well.
Ford have tried at copying vw's interiors (Mun-dane-o is blatant attenpt at a Passat) but you only have to touch a switch to know that they can't do it.
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I test drove a 1.8 Zetec Focus b4 I got my GTI and I must say... its handling is space age compared to the Golf. The Golf is like a caveman pushing a boulder and the Focus is like a scalextric (dunno how to spell it)
And then u have the ST170 and RS Focus's .. which are like... VWAPP...
Focus RS = Sexy, Fast, Fun, Cool.
...Sorry but I think I'd have an RS over a R32...better handling... better ride. R32 has no 1st gear LOL... ive tried... its crap.
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least i got the guts to show it....
Yep you are a geezer bird :D
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done the ford thing many years ago, never again! unless a rs focus was to be GIVEN TO ME FOR FREE THEN I MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE PLAY!, but would still keep me golfys!! :o
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Focus = Fun. Not serious bit of engineering. My mates just bought an RS, he wanted a fast car and got a good deal on one. He is a big German car fan and never thought he would by a ford. But it not a serious car, as he has, you would buy it to have fun for a year and then sell it. Tis one of the most fun cars i've ever driven!
Some people say the ford ka is a roller skate. Personally i believe it looks like a shoe horn! Those things that assist your foot getting into a new shoe... thats the ka design brief!
My opinion. I owned a ford escort. I would never own a ford again, not after owning a VW. As an example the cam belt tensioner in a ford is a small nylon plastic wheel with a metal bush and a brass spring, prob weighs about 100 grams. I'm sure its sufficient. In a golf the cam belt tensioner is made of mild steel, weighs about 1.5lbs is full of steel bearings has no plastic parts and closely resembles the pullies they have guiding tank tracks.
Both these parts do the same job. Nuff said!
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I would love a three door cossie (the original whale tail jobbie) and am considering one as a track day car for next year, but that is the only ford (RS Focus included) that I would consider owning.
Having owned them and driven them as company cars in the past I can say, hand on heart, that they really don't float my boat.
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Have to say that a focus does move quicker than i expected it to with it being a "family car",as i say.B/f got an escort rs turbo(don't say out '6) n i reckon its canny.Least i can mend bits on that rather than me golf.....perhaps cos his always breaks down,ha ha!
I still prefer me golf,only hav a ford if it was a puma racing!
Dinky :-*
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Dont mention Ford to him. I am still getting abuse 4 years after I got rid of my Fiesta (my first car) ;) Sam xxxx
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my missus had a ford ka .....sh!t looks but a lot of fun brilliant for the handbrake turn think i liked it more because i couldn't care less weather i wrote it off or not ;D i would never drive the golf like i did that thing!
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done the golf thing years ago then went back to the ford rs's escort and fiestas, not knockin the golfs cause im back into em big stkye but the interiors (seats) and performance ( with a few tweaks) is boomin !!! ( for the money!!) hey not knockin vw by any means!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D