Man of Honour
Fox didn't slate the C4, he didn't call it a nasty French car and he never said it was a quantum leap ahead of anythingLets back this up with some facts maybe?
JD Power Reliability Survey
Ford Focus 79.9% Citroen C4 78.2% Ford is hardly a quantum leap over the nasty french car eh Fox? (Toyota Corolla 84%) So the Corolla wins by a mile, lets see how the Focus compares with the C4 then as it was thrown in out of the blue...
He suggested the Focus as his choice to fit the brief - it was thrown in "out of the blue" at the request of the OP who said:
We are looking for low running costs and reliability.
What would you folks recmommend. the above cars are just what we have seen today
I think you need to re-read the thread.