New Car after the Scenic Saga!

[RandomJord]

Oh I have seperate funds for camper, golf an girlfriends car!

I'd love a ZS180 saloon, always liked them since I worked at MG

[JC]

gotta say jord your lasses car choice and frequency of change is on a par with you 

[snifferdog]

Oh I have seperate funds for camper, golf an girlfriends car!

I'd love a ZS180 saloon, always liked them since I worked at MG

Oh you worked at MG, sweet. You know theyre ok then! 

[RandomJord]

Oh I have seperate funds for camper, golf an girlfriends car!

I'd love a ZS180 saloon, always liked them since I worked at MG

Focus estate?

big boot, sensible TDCI engine range, good fuel economy, roomy

Get...... Out !!

[Bellend]

Ford are crap at making Diesel engines though. 

[Diamond Hell]

Why?

Terrible economy for one - Focus my parents had as a rental on holiday couldn't make 40MPG on light driving!

Cheap, cheap parts, easy to work on (from what i have done to my mums)

No and I doubt it.  Parts I've bought for Fords have been horrendously expensive!

[Seanl]

Sold my focus zetec to my sister in march. I hated the car almost as much as I hated the 307 I had. I feel guilty though cos she has had nothing but problems with it. Her fiance is a bit of a chopper and thinks hes a know it all as well, so he has bodged things and made it worse. So far spent over 1k on garage bills to get it all sorted (warped disks, coil packs, HT leads, windscreen etc etc)

[Bellend]

Why?

Terrible economy for one - Focus my parents had as a rental on holiday couldn't make 40MPG on light driving!

Cheap, cheap parts, easy to work on (from what i have done to my mums)

No and I doubt it.  Parts I've bought for Fords have been horrendously expensive!

This.

Infact I'm not too sure what engines Ford have made that are great really....

The cars themselves aren't bad. The 1l Fiesta Courtesy cars are nice little cars, handle and drive nice but the engine is just crap really. Fairly nippy but crap on fuel and crap if you're in the wrong gear......

HT leads last all of ten miles too.

Focus 1.6's are just crap on fuel. Diesels are jus crap on fuel.

Plus you can put your foot down in the new Focus and count to ten before the ECU has even decided whether to open the throttle or not.

[Guy]

Oh I have seperate funds for camper, golf an girlfriends car!

I'd love a ZS180 saloon, always liked them since I worked at MG

Focus estate?

big boot, sensible TDCI engine range, good fuel economy, roomy

Get...... Out !!

Nat's Focus estate is a great workhorse, tatty as hell but then with a 7 year old climbing all over it with sticky snotty fingers writing 'i hate poo' on the drivers door etc we don't get that precious about it... its only a 1.6 petrol so it is slow... and very very dull... but it does what it was built to do, they aren't for everyone though

[Diamond Hell]

Infact I'm not too sure what engines Ford have made that are great really....

Errr the Pinto, the Crossflow, the Zeta and the Duratec which have powered generations of Se7en-type cars.

Oh and the YB Cosworth unit.

Clearly a complete dearth of great engines.