Should have Focused on making a better car. (Ford Focus 1.6 Zetec 5dr)

Member Name: TheDrowningMan

Product:	Ford Focus 1.6 Zetec 5dr
Date:	15/08/03 (3408 review reads)
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Advantages: Looks cool, Drives well

Disadvantages: Same problems as when it first appeared on the market.

Now, ive had 2 Ford Focus', one a 1999 no frills version, and now a 2003 1.6i Zetec. The Focus is a nice car, it drives well, the bits and pieces are just about where you want them, it looks sexy, and it has a blue oval badge on the front, so u know its gonna be a reliable car right?

Well, its not so much that the thing ever stopped going, but i remember the brakes needed replacing too often on the 99 model, the clutch too started smelling like smoked radishes all too soon. But, despite this, the most worrying thing about the car was, that the engine cut out inexplicably whilst i was driving on the M-way, and i only noticed when the steering and brakes were very unresponsive when i had to slow down. Well, i didnt get it checked out, and thankfully it didnt do it again, and when i purchased the new Focus, i was sure that everything would be fixed up, and the new model would be altogether a better built car.

Well, yesterday when i was driving along a main road, guess what happened??? Yep, the engine cut right out again. What????? my brand new Focus, with the same problem as one 4 years older???? Surely not, i thought, those clever men at ford must have fixed this problem by now? Obviously they were too busy deciding what colour the gearstick should be, and even though silver is a very fetching hue, id much prefer not to die.

Well, that, as well as the brakes that are very spongy 8 months since i first applied them, and that there is a very funny smell coming from the direction of the clutch, and an added extra of the speedometer failing on a number of occasions, ive really bought the same car, with the same problems, just a little younger, and boy racer black, instead of 'girly' green.

Maybe a few years from now, if the focus survives, they will get around to fixing the problems? Or maybe they'll just change the colour of the little button you use to spray water on the windscreen?

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