2005/06ish Ford Focus 1.6 AUTO - anyone owned?

[nb12v07]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 23 April 2011 at 12:40

[300bhp/ton]

Well it's a very unknown small scale car maker and a very obscurer and rare model. So reliability will be terrible, probably 9mpg due to the autobox and somewhere around 29 sec 0-60mph.


HTH




Or maybe it's just a regular Ford Focus of which there are hundreds of thousands of......

Check parkers for some stats.

[HellDiver]

Try www.washingmachineenginesmatter.com

[nb12v07]

Its affordable, low insurance but came across a few reviews about how its stupidly slow on motorways (which I shall soon be frequenting). Not sure whether its an exaggeration.

[300bhp/ton]

nb12v07 said:

Its affordable, low insurance but came across a few reviews about how its stupidly slow on motorways (which I shall soon be frequenting). Not sure whether its an exaggeration.

Yes it's an exaggeration. Any modern car, and by modern I mean the last 30 years at least. Is fully, 100% capable of motorway use. Anyone who claims different is either an idiot or poor driver, or maybe both.

In fact one place where you simply don't need a speedy car is on the motorway IMO. 40 tonne 18 wheelers limited to 56mph seem to manage fine if you know what I mean...