Ford Focus Zetec. TERRIBLE.

wohoo said:
Looks like OCUK motors will be filled with this trolling trip now that the school holidays are here.
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Yes, because disliking a Ford makes me, a 22 year old driving a company hire car, a school kid troll doesn't it. :rolleyes:

Edit: ninjad for taking too long to post

It's not tripe to say that the Focus was less enjoyable for me to drive than the Astra. I literally did not feel as if I had full control of the car because of how unresponsive it was and how little contact there was with its internal workings.
 
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Muffin` said:
What kind of things does your company let you drive?
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I don't really know. I only used it yesterday because I had a training course on another company site. We hire all our cars through Avis. I think I saw a couple of other Fords, a Vauxhall and a Toyota in the hire car area, but didn't really pay attention to them. One of the other people on the course had been given a Micra which he complained bitterly about. :p
 
tbh I think that people just love to hate Vauxhalls because they are not bad cars, I think you gotta just get used to the focus ;)
 
Bring back the days of the MK2 Astra GTE and the Nova GSI / GTE both far better cars then their Ford couterparts. The Mk3 Astra was an abortion, the MK4 was significantly better and was a direct comparison to the Focus of the same era.

Drive an Astra GTE from 1988 and then lets see how people describe its lack of 'feel'
 
SlyReaper said:
Yes, because disliking a Ford makes me, a 22 year old driving a company hire car, a school kid troll doesn't it. :rolleyes:

Edit: ninjad for taking too long to post

It's not tripe to say that the Focus was less enjoyable for me to drive than the Astra. I literally did not feel as if I had full control of the car because of how unresponsive it was and how little contact there was with its internal workings.
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Unless your Astra is a GTE, then your talking complete and utter tripe, the Focus, even an Daewoo nexia is a better car in everyway.
 
Lucero said:
Bring back the days of the MK2 Astra GTE and the Nova GSI / GTE both far better cars then their Ford couterparts. The Mk3 Astra was an abortion, the MK4 was significantly better and was a direct comparison to the Focus of the same era.

Drive an Astra GTE from 1988 and then lets see how people describe its lack of 'feel'
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GTE was awesome,currently weighing up getting a 84 Astra GTE, good fun, but never gonna be as good as my Focus ST.
 
SlyReaper said:
I literally did not feel as if I had full control of the car because of how unresponsive it was and how little contact there was with its internal workings.
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You drive a Mk3 Astra. You have NO contact with its internal workings - the Mk3 Astra doesn't have conventional steering or suspension. Instead it has marshmellows for suspension and instead of a steering rack there is a box containing custard. The steering wheel is connected to a whisk, when you turn the wheel the centrifugal force of the custard spinning turns the wheels.

Mk3 Astra, probably the worst car ever made by Vauxhall which from a company like Vauxhall which hasn't made a good car without outside help for years, is pretty bad.
 
Only comment I have about the Focus is the one (mk 1) I test drove a few years ago was awful. It skipped about all over the place at speed; just wouldn't hold a straight line. I just put it down to being a bad example. Pretty poor for a new car when you're trying to sell them.
 
I dunno, my mate had one a while back, hire car off work like, i never drove it but it certainly wasn't sluggish. And it gripped and broke well.
He was throwing it into corners at stupid speed and it just somehow went round.
 
[TW]Fox;14497526 said:
You drive a Mk3 Astra. You have NO contact with its internal workings - the Mk3 Astra doesn't have conventional steering or suspension. Instead it has marshmellows for suspension and instead of a steering rack there is a box containing custard. The steering wheel is connected to a whisk, when you turn the wheel the centrifugal force of the custard spinning turns the wheels.

Mk3 Astra, probably the worst car ever made by Vauxhall which from a company like Vauxhall which hasn't made a good car without outside help for years, is pretty bad.
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I told you it isn't a mk anything.
 
john_s said:
Only comment I have about the Focus is the one (mk 1) I test drove a few years ago was awful. It skipped about all over the place at speed; just wouldn't hold a straight line. I just put it down to being a bad example. Pretty poor for a new car when you're trying to sell them.
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It must have been broken then. My 10 year old Mk1 is smooth, comfortable and responsive for a family hatchback. Im hoping things will be even better once I replace the front Wanli tyres with the same Continentals that I have on the back.
 
granted i dont have the widest of experiances on the road with regards to different cars, but the 1.6 09 focus i drove was absolutely shocking. no feedback from the steering or the clutch, and i found myself guessing the biting point rather than feeling for it. not a bad place to be in, but definately NOT the car id choose to buy.
 
james.miller said:
granted i dont have the widest of experiances on the road with regards to different cars, but the 1.6 09 focus i drove was absolutely shocking. no feedback from the steering or the clutch, and i found myself guessing the biting point rather than feeling for it. not a bad place to be in, but definately NOT the car id choose to buy.
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Someone gets it! YAY! \0/
 
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