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Test drive Ford Focus Wagon 2.0: The most correct focus

On the Balkan serpentines, the Kolesa.ru portal refreshed in my memory acquaintance with one of the most popular models of the Russian market, which this time appeared in the most practical modification of the station wagon.
Exactly half a year ago, smoothing the winding mountain roads of the Markotkh ridge in the vicinity of Gelendzhik on the hatchback and the Ford Focus III sedan, we were convinced that the organizers chose the most suitable place for the test.
It was the serpentine that became for the third focus muse, which revealed all the talents of a well -tuned chassis, which, moreover, is in complete harmony with the settings of the steering. The car greedily absorbed the bends of the curly track, passing the driver a sense of confidence and, at the same time, excitement, with whom every next turn was even faster.
And it was no longer important that the modern Focus III elaborated in electronics regained part of its balanced consumer qualities. It doesn’t matter that not one of the gasoline engines, even a two -liter, is completely in a hurry to comply with the orders of the right leg. In the end, on the serpentine, movement at a speed of 90 km/h turns into a deadly attraction.
It doesn’t matter that the protruding central console with a scattering of multi -colored buttons significantly reduced the living space of the front riders and worsened ergonomics. There are still enough ranges of adjustments of the seats and the steering column that it is quite convenient to get a job. It doesn’t matter that the volume of the trunk of the sedan and the hatchback, compared with the focus of the second generation, was reduced to impressive 95 liters by car standards. After all, besides bags with camera there was nothing there.
For excellent riding qualities and energy -intensive suspension to some disadvantages of a new focus, you can get used to it, with some, and some, even forgive. That's just a small cargo compartment of the hatchback or sedan can greatly complicate the life of a potential buyer, especially if the family and house in the village are behind his shoulders. What, in the end, is the difference how Ford Focus controls if the trunk does not fit everything that you want to take with you on the road?!
Now the problem is solved. The Ford Focus family was replenished with Wagon modification, that is, with a station wagon, the presentation of which the Fords organized on the mountain roads of Serbia. So, you can already hope for new portions of driver pleasure.
Why hope? Because the task of the car is not to inject adrenaline into the blood, but to deliver to the destination of family members with the maximum possible number of home belongings. And you need to make a discount on this.
We will immediately make a reservation that we will not dwell on the characteristics of the station wagon. Apart from the body, according to many parameters, Focus III Wagon is identical to the sedan and hatchback, which we have already tested in October last year. The same line of engines, gearboxes, configurations and a list of additional equipment. In general, before the central rack, all three body options do not differ either inside or outside.
But as it turned out, the Ford Focus Wagon discounts are not needed. As soon as the plain Serbian landscapes began to be replaced by the Balkan ridges and green valleys impressive in beauty, and the road began to twist into a vertical spiral, my partner could not resist and spurred 150 gasoline horses of a two -liter focus.
And what else was left to do when stretching up to 4,556 mm in length and heavier for only 10 kg of the Ford Bestseller, without any hints of gathering from the trajectory continued to be screwed into the right or left turn. Moreover, even when the road did not indulge in even asphalt. After some time, we did not pay any attention to the marking or potholes together, turning the Balkan serpentine into a racing highway and going into turns, as expected, from a large radius. Three hundred, four left - as if reading a rally stenigram, I make fun of a colleague behind the wheel.
We only regretted that we did not tie bags that flew along the 476-liter trunk from the corner to corner. In a word, the volume of the cargo compartment is far from outstanding. According to this indicator, from all direct competitors in the Russian market, Focus III Wagon wins only the old Lacetti. But if you still want to turn the focus into a truck by folding the rear sofa, you can take 1.5 cubic meters of cargo. And this is not so little.
Changing with a partner in places and changing the red Ford Focus Wagon to a dark gray, we at the same time changed both horses and reins. We pass the next specialty of the Serbian rally on the focus, in the bowels of which there is a 140-horsepower engine on heavy fuel, controlled by the PowerShift presellective robot. There is nothing magnificent to hide. What is on the hatchback, that on the sedan, that on the station wagon is the best of the engines proposed for Focus III. But the most expensive.
But there are still claims to the gearbox. If in a calm rhythm of movement the robot behaves decently, then the torn ride style immediately makes PowerShift stumble about the transmission, causing uncomfortable shocks.
Be that as it may, completely different engines, 1.6 gasoline and with a capacity of 85 to 125 horsepower will make the cash desk in Russia. After all, the price of such versions remains the most attractive. But in Serbia 1.6-liter focus-wagons were not brought, so we will evaluate their capabilities in domestic expanses.
In any case, the station wagon is the most correct choice of the entire Focus III family. Without loss of the gambling of the hatchback and the solidity of the sedan, Wagon acquired what the brothers really missed a convenient and roomy trunk.
Prices for Ford Focus Wagon
The difference between the focus-universal from the hatchback and the sedan is the lack of the most basic configuration of Ambiente. The prices for the car begin with 634,000 rubles. For this money, a potential buyer will receive a Focus with the weakest 1.6-liter gasoline engine with a capacity of 85 horsepower and five-speed mechanics in a good Trend version, which will include: ABS with ESP, frontal airbags, air conditioning, MP3-magnet with USB connector, electric drive and electric drive, and Heated mirrors, front electric windows, an on -board computer, a central castle with DU and all adjustments to the driver's seat and a steering column.
For a 105-horsepower engine you will have to pay 12,000 rubles, for 125-horsepower 36,000 rubles, and for 150-horsepower 67,000 rubles. The surcharge for the PowerShift machine for any of these three engines will be 35,000 rubles.
 
The next Trend Sport execution will please the owner with additional options in the form of lateral airbags, sports front seats, rear electric windows, heating the front seats, fog headlights, alloy discs, front armrests, leather steering wheel and standard alarm.
Trend Sport is available with a 1.6 engine (125 hp) from 714,000 rubles, with a 2.0 engine (150 hp) from 757,000 rubles, as well as with a diesel engine 2.0 (140 hp) from 872 500 rubles, including automatic transmission.
At the top of the gamut, Titanium equipment, including a two-zone climate control, rain and light sensors, engine start button, rear armrest, LED rear lights and altered decorative interior decoration. The cost of Ford Focus Wagon Titanium begins with 738 500 rubles for a version with a 125-horsepower engine and a mechanical gearbox.
It is worth noting that each of the sets has an impressive list of additional options, the prices for which remain at a quite acceptable level. So, 38,000 rubles must be paid for standard navigation, and 41,000 rubles for adaptive bixenon headlights with turning function and LED running lights.
The choice of the portal kolesa.ru
Since the station wagon implies regular warriors with a loaded trunk, including along the tracks, the driver should have a good supply of traction under the right foot. All variations of a gasoline engine 1.6 are not suitable for such a role. And diesel, although very good, is too expensive, and not everyone needs an automatic machine.
Therefore, we opt for a 2.0-liter gasoline motor with mechanics. As the basis, the basic Trend set is quite enough, to which we will add a two-zone climate control for 12,000 rubles, a cruise control for 7,500 rubles, a packet of winter (heating the front seats, windshield and nozzle nozzles) for 11,900 rubles and a packet of urban 1 (rear parking sensors, electric power plants of lateral mirrors and rear electric windows) for 14,000 rubles.
Total: a sufficiently powerful and well -equipped Ford Focus family station wagon will cost 746,400 rubles.
All three bodies of the new focus are built on the modified platform of the previous generation model. Moreover, the length of the base for all modifications is the same 2648 mm. And this means that there are as much space for the rear passengers in the station wagon as in the hatchback. It became more spacious only in the area of \u200b\u200bthe head due to the length extended in the length of the roof.
A completely independent suspension with McPherson racks in front and multi -link behind has a very good energy consumption and persistently holds the blows of even large irregularities.
 
 
Focus gasoline engines are included in the Ford Duratec family, have two distribution shafts in the cylinder head (DOHC) and have an electronic system for changing gas distribution phases. In fact, two gasoline engines are installed on the Russian market on Ford Focus III.

The first 1.6-liter power unit with distributed fuel injection has three forcing options: 85, 105 and 125 horsepower. The second 2.0 liter engine with direct fuel injection specifically for domestic tax conditions was deformed from 160 to 150 horsepower.
The only turbodiesel engine of the Duratorq family with a volume of 2.0 liters and a capacity of 140 horsepower has an impressive torque of 320 nm, already available from 1750 rpm. The engine was developed in conjunction with the PSA Peugeot Citroen concern and today is installed on many models Ford, Peugeot, Citroen and Volvo.
The gearbox for Ford Focus III provides for two: a five -speed mechanics and a six -speed pre -sequence PowerShift. The latter was developed by Getrag and is a robotic transmission with a pair of dry clutches. Moreover, the robot for the 1.6 and 2.0 engine differs slightly, depending on the digested torque.
 
 
The cost of service
The Ford Focus III is a guarantee of 3 years or 100,000 km of run. Service must be carried out every 15,000 km or year from the date of purchase. The average cost of a planned one does not depend on the run and for a gasoline engine is 7,990 rubles, for a diesel 9,290 rubles.
Competitors of Ford Focus Wagon in the Russian market
Opel Astra Caravan
Skoda Octavia Combi
 

Source: Wheel magazine [May 2012]