Test drive Ford Focus st 5 doors 2005 - 2007 hatchback
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There are areas where the car is just born to ride. And, we will tell you, this is not Dmitrov-Kashin's distillation. The fact that the editor -in -chief of the autopilot tormented the tiny, but the proud Ford ST on the snowdrifts of the Tushino airport is one thing. But just in case, we tried this orange car exactly there, for which it was born - in the south of France and on the professional highway of Paul Rikar. How good to have your own airport. Such a small Alp Maritim in the mountains, where the mountains look like a plain. And so that the airfield would be an autodrome. And when you come to your own autodrome on your own plane, consider - life is beautiful. Actually, the Ricar Field (yes, the same alcohol tycoon, which then became Pernod Ricard) was both this and the third. Now, however, all this belongs to the formula Magnate Bernie Ecclestone, and the Paul Rikor highway is used for tests. Well, good-just a sight for sore eyes, when such a beautiful structure under the blue sky, surrounded by mountains, is not yet lifted by hundreds of thousands of fans and is a pure charm of some sample. But to us, the Russian team, which arrived here in order to ride on the brand new Ford Focus ST, for starters, they gave them to try cars on public roads - from one restaurant Alena Ducass to another. If you think this path is short, you are mistaken - Alain Ducass does not build restaurants nearby. We rushed out of the Hotel du Castellet gate on the D2 highway, along the well -groomed corners of the Mediterranean district of the Southern Territory of France. The car turned out to be just: a girl named Katya sitting to the left of me is delighted with the lightness with which the bright orange machine is carried up the serpentine, furnishing any other vehicles. As the racer Fomenko would say now, Aston Martin has not yet come to you. But for that we took Ford Focus, not DB9 to enjoy riding, and not work, like James Bond on a kagabash arable land. At the entrance to the city, Ford behaved modestly, his turbine calmed down, and we also wanted to calmly call somewhere for groceries and wine. Wine here is Languedoc, Rossiyon, and to de Provence. Only decent will have to look. With cars, too, it is necessary to find from the already flashing pearl. Who knows, maybe ST is a pearl among Focus, which many young use as sports cars for self -expression. We know, by the way, there is plenty of adult characters of this plan.
In fact, the new ST has an indisputable advantage over the horse -drawn transport - its lightness is incommensurable with its power. A typical machine for a young professional, as one prominent marketer Tinkov would say. The road was specially laid through the de Cerr ridge so that we would not accelerate too much (and on this small car you want to drive, drive more). And now Hostellerie de Abbaye de la Celle is a hotel restaurant of the same Dukass restaurateur. Ford ST in the courtyard, seen by a vine, looks great. It will look just as great in the green Rublevo fence, because orange and green are excellent compatibility!
The reverse half rings behind the wheel sits Katya. Wow! I knew that in St. Petersburg people are strange to life, but so that ... in general, we rode very quickly. And it’s good that ESP is impossible to turn off completely - it itself begins to work in dangerous situations.
A very summer and very joyful car. Ford is going to sell them in Russia one hundred pieces. The devil knows, I would buy two. In order to quickly drive and knead around the lawns ... And in the morning there were starts on the Paul Rikr highway, so that the gentlemen Russian journalists would pour out their complexes right on Tarmak. Well, we poured four circles.
Text Igor Maltsev, photo Ford Focus Company
A source: "Autopilot"
