Test drive Ford Focus 4 doors 2008 - 2010 sedan

Aromatherapy

My friend has a 2006 Focus. Seeing a new model, he said angrily: what is her ugly!. And, not meeting support, he continued to insist: no, well, look at these headlights?. Well, I looked, there was nothing disgusting in them. Then he admitted what the essence of his impatience is: it turns out that only a year with a little he went on a new model. And now he will become the owner of the old focus, and there is something offensive in this. He wanted only one thing: so that the new car would have minimal differences from the previous version. And in his desire, he is hardly lonely: only last year we sold nearly a hundred thousand tricks.
The city of Graus is located two dozen kilometers from the beaches of the azure shore, if we take those that are closest in Cannes. But this is not to break away from the Mediterranean Sea in the summer, and at the beginning of winter the weather is disgusting here. A silent wind, rain seeds, on the eve of the snow. On the wet roads, it is now rarely when a steep car passes, their season will open somewhere in April, and local residents prefer that it is simpler, gravitating to three-door hatchbacks. Therefore, on the red Ford Focus, I did not get out of the general stream, except that Focus was more and more likely than others.
Why present a car of a democratic C-class in such a pathos place? To emphasize its premium. In general, there is nothing more to emphasize in it: in the car, everything remains the same, except for external design, internal design and new functions that will be in demand by lovers of top-ends.
Like Mondeo, this is the most commonly repeated phrase that Ford employees pronounced, describing the new Focus. The first thing that catches the eye of embossed headlights, an enlarged lower grill and a chrome strip at the upper grate. Chrome, one might say, has become a pronounced feature of the focus, and the higher the level of configuration, the larger it becomes. Moldings disappeared from the sidewalls, the side mirrors became larger and the turning pointers were integrated in them, and the rear lights can be optionally LED. Moreover, they do not look as disco as most such systems in which each individual LED is visible, the method of distribution of light is used here. The new Focus is trying with all his might to captivate not idle fashionistas, but a more demanding and wealthy audience.
People of this kind, but who lived in the age of the eighteenth, would not have occurred to be made in a visit to the stand -land fishing villages, which were now the now fashionable resorts of the French Riviera. But only the ignoramus did not know about Graz. Once this city could make a person more powerful and attractive, because perfumes were created here, and at a time when the slop was poured right into the street, a pleasant smell was expensive.
What the new Focus smells like this question began to torment me after a short visit to the factory, the museum and the perfume house of Fragonar. In general, as in the previous generation model, in the cabin it just smells of a new car. But this smell is especially appreciated by the newly-minted owners of medium wealth, whose friends often prefer a new C-class car, a used, but luxury foreign car: when the latter evaluate the freshly coooped Focus, their words sound with a shade of regret: yes, indeed, only a new car smells so nice.
Nevertheless, Focus is similar to a bottle of spirits: it will have to configure it as painstakingly as it is a new aroma. The previous generation model was also very optional, but now the task has become more complicated by the base for personalization are five levels of configuration and many custom options. In addition, one might say, the classic top version of Ghia, Focus will have another rich Titanium set in high-tech style. And if the central section of the dashboard and the central console of the GHIA series are made under a tree, then in the Titanium version these parts of the salon have an aluminum finish. For both configurations, a package of Kh. Ghia X options is offered more respectable: a leather salon, tinted glass and parking sensors. Titanium X is more technological: adaptive front light, LED rear lights, and advanced tinted glass: the front are blue, slightly tinted, and the back is already simple, but tinted strongly.
As it was removed from the coast deep into the Provence, the wind was lying, the rain intensified, the fog was sometimes enveloped in the road, and when it scattered, the focus window appeared on the foothills of the French Alps. It was not possible to get to the Verdon canyon, but the smaller gorges scared their cliffs no less. But the new Focus is not capable of impressing the depth of technological changes. In it, all the previous gamut of engines, gearboxes, chassis and further along the list. But he is ready to present surprises in little things. The most pleasant of which the engine is launched by the Ford Power button without using the key. The Keyless Start system is available as an option for all models (only on ST it will be installed in the standard), you can also order an option to unlock the car without the hands of Keyless Entry. In order to have something to eat the Ford Power button, you will have to order a Focus with a new through console, which gives a little more sensations of sports due to a decrease in space around the driver. Even from the rich options, Focus has a system for detecting a drop in tire pressure, an adaptive front light system (maximum rotation of 15 degrees) and the Sony audio system with a DAB digital tuner, as well as the USB port and the iPod connector.
By the way, in protest, my friend decided not to buy an iPhone before changing the car. I exchanged it for a smartphone with GPS navigation, especially since navigation in the Vsevolzhsky focus is not provided. In addition, Ford officially abolished Trend. What added a little historical uniqueness to the desired focus of the previous generation, which was why my friend had a fun in my soul.
Abstracts after
1. Focus gained a kinetic appearance, the same as that of senior S-Max and new Mondeo models.
2. But under the new hood there are no changes. Engines in the same place, with the same volumes and horsepower.
3. The owner’s hands will now not smell of gasoline with a new focus, the new focus does not have a traffic jam. Thanks to Ford EasyFuel, a system to prevent refueling inappropriate fuel.
4. The model has a new body, but the frame remained the same. It makes no sense to conduct crash tests the same as in 2004, when the model earned five stars in Euro NCAP.
Ford Focus 3-Door
4-cylinder engine, gasoline
Rabote volume (cubic cub) 1999
Power (L.S. at rpm) 145/6000
Moment (nm at rpm) 185/4500
Front drive
Gearbox fur. 5 steps
lina/width/height (mm) 4337/2019/1500
Equipped mass (kg) 1307
Maximum speed (km/h) 206
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 9.2
Fuel consumption is average, (l/100 km) 7.1
Price in Moscow (rub.) From 446,000
Text: Anna Kilimnik
Photo: Ford of Europe
      

A source: "Autopilot"