Test drives Ford Focus 4 doors 2005 - 2007 sedan

After - without a roof
Fashion is a real dictator: if you want to look modern implicitly follow its requirements. In a compact class of cars, hide a hard roof in the trunk started Peugeot and Renault. Of course, the French are well -known legislators of world fashion. Opel and Volkswagen were attached to the fashion stream behind them. And now Ford rushed after him, creating a Cabilet compartment on ...
Three percent with a bonus
Trying to please the buyer, the automakers seek to expand the line of power units as much as possible: the most popular range is cut with an interval of 200300 cm. That is how the first Ford Focus had, for which the 1.4 gasoline engines were offered; 1.6; 1.8 and 2.0 liters. But the second-generation model instead of a 1.8-liter model appeared a modernized 1.6 liter engine with regulation ...
False start
Ford Focus manufacturer: Ford Motor Company Russia, Vsevolozhkskogod release: 2006 in operating at the wheel: since June 2006, at the time of the report: 4300 km predictive publications in the journal: 2006, No. 6, fanfares, and 100,000th Russian focus went to Moscow. Given the May holidays, the long-awaited meeting was postponed for a whole month. Nakonets! It remains only to pick up our diesel focus from the parking lot ...
Sweet peppers
Seeing a bright couple, the colleague sharpened sharply on his tongue: Bulgarian peppers! Well, let there be peppers of these hatchbacks from the breed of hot. In the cockpit of a bright red squat golf, decorated with nameplates GTI, you begin to catch delighted views, not pretty girls, but cut, specific guys because of the open glasses of the buried tanned and…
Victims of stereotypes
What do you associate diesel with? Surely many will say: noisy, but confidently lucky from minimum revolutions; An economical, but expensive to maintain in Russia, the attitude to passenger diesel cars has always been ambiguous. There are enough reasons for the dislike: firstly, the former diesel engines could not approach the dynamic indicators to the gasoline. Secondly, they are noticeably more expensive. Finally,…
Half a year and a quarter
The editorial Ford Focus II wounds kilometers with a shock pace after six months of operation (at the time of preparation of the report) exchanged 25 thousand km. The first quarter turned out to be difficult: several comparative tests, a 60-hour high-speed marathon, a heavy brake test, a freezer, and even a winter mileage to the Urals with full load. The rest of the time, the machine was usually operated in ...
Ford Focus from trad-in. Special effect
This trick was a success: AP! And in our market suddenly a European (without any discounts) car of the Russian assembly for an acceptable, according to Russian concepts, a price appeared. He was loved immediately and, as it turned out, for a long time, the first time built behind the Ford Focus was the first to now. Only already in the trad -in. Liberia Balance to believe ...
60 hours driving
In this supermaraton of domestic new products, Ford Focus took the first place. On the second Lada-Kalina, the Reno-Logan closes the three. The many of us still dream of an endless tape of the speed road. In the ears there is a roar of a motor, a rumble of tires, feverishly wrapping hundreds, thousands of kilometers passed. Speed \u200b\u200bis a drug ... But everything is already behind. The first results are summed up ...
"Focus" without surprises
In Russia, the focus of the first generation has already become a folk foreign car. He was loved immediately and seriously: for a rapid design, a cozy salon, promised adaptation to Russian conditions and a relatively low price. But soon the euphoria passed: a cold shower was the change in the price tags of the dollar to the euro (fortunately, for a short while), and then the operation of operation showed ... ...
Focus group
Last year, 28 059 tricks were sold in Russia, a record among foreign cars! Buyers wait for three months and this bestseller removes from the assembly line? Yes, but in return they promise even the best car at incredible prices from $ 11,720! And how best? Without waiting for the start of production in Vsevolozhsk, we went ...

Video crash tests Ford Focus 4 doors 2005 - 2007