Test drive Ford Focus 4 doors 2008 - 2010 sedan
An outfit for the anniversary
To the ten -year anniversary of the Focus model, Ford has glued its bestseller in accordance with the canons of branded kinetic design. We met the updated Focus clothing, but decided to find out what was hiding under it by testing the diesel version of the model. If the car is already bought like hot pies, why improve it? And then, that someone probably considers the pies of this manufacturer too simple and uncomplicated and is therefore cooked in the competitors' shop. But if you pack these pies in a beautiful wrapper, gourmets will run to take their queue. Perhaps Ford marketers reasoned just when they worked on the update of the second generation Focus, which is only four years old. Perhaps the reasons were completely different. But one thing is obvious: in previously emphasized pragmatic in appearance Focus appeared at least some kind of highlight. On the updated car, I would like to hold my gaze how ten years ago I wanted to look at the first -generation Focus, the design of which then seemed the height of extravagance in the class of family hatchbacks.
According to representatives of the blue oval, only the roof did not touch all the body panels in the updated Focus. It is right: who looks at the car on the roof? Ford stylists in small blood instilled a branded kinetic design to the machine, which goes better than some other brand models. And although the car seems to have remained the same, but, no matter how you look at it, some new details of the design are found everywhere. In front, it is huge, as if in some sportskup, the mouth of a radiator grille with chrome edging and curved headlights. The side is more expressive wheel arches. The relief bumper, a chrome strip on the door of the trunk (at hatchbacks and station wagons) and LED lamps, proposed, though, as an option. 
Changes in the salon are even more pleasing to the eye. Preserving the previous architecture of the front panel, the Fords focused on trifles and greatly succeeded in this. A new shield of devices with three -dimensional chrome shirts, a more elegant gearbox lever, the central console of the new design, a slightly more solid plastic for aluminum in the decoration and Focus no longer impress a cheap car. It does not seem expensive expensive, so it is better not to order a vulgar trim under a tree. It is better to spend money on climate control, otherwise on a car with a conventional air conditioner climate control looks a little clumsy against the background of a stylish central console. Of the pleasant trifles in equipping the updated machine, one cannot fail to note the Bluetooth interface for connecting a mobile phone, rain sensor, parking sensor, rotary headlights, engine start button, radio circuit, tire pressure sensor and even 230 volts to connect low-power equipment like a laptop. And even if all these are options, but the very fact of their appearance on Focus cannot but rejoice. 
As for the technical basis, Ford does not hide the fact that in this regard the updated car has not changed. The same line of engines, the same magnificent chassis with an independent rear suspension, which allows even the simplest version of the focus gambling ... to open something new on the go, we decided to try out the most popular diesel version of Focus from 1 , An 8-liter TDCI engine with a capacity of 115 hp According to representatives of Ford, it accounts for only 5% of the sales of the model in Russia, and in vain ... As diesel is supposed to, the motor is distinguished by excellent traction (280 nm of torque is seriously), and successfully selected gear rates are minimized when the situation is minimized when , for example, when overtaking, TDCI is exhausted at high speeds. The diesel Focus does not tear out (acceleration to hundreds occupies a moderate 10.8 seconds from him), but retains a assertive character at high speeds, allowing you to make good accelerations, even when the speedometer arrow is located 100 km/h. And at the same time, only 5.4 liters of diesel fuel per 100 km in a mixed cycle. The disadvantages of this engine include only a lack of traction below 2000 rpm: because of this, on the ultra-small 
the speeds sometimes have to include the first gear, but you can get used to such a feature. Our test took place along the roads of the Leningrad region, the unstable quality of which allowed us to once again admire the omnivorous of the Focus suspension. On a completely terrible road to the Ford plant in Vsevolzhsk, where, by the way, more than 250 thousand tricks have already been released since 2002, only a type of bumps causes an insurmountable desire to stop and walk. However, Focus digesting asphalt flaws with enviable equanimity. In general, all the original advantages of Focus have not gone away, and the aesthetics added to them on the occasion of the anniversary of the model made this car truly desirable. Perhaps this will sound too pathos, but now Focus can be chosen not only with the head, but also with your heart.
Maxim Bordunov
A source: Motor magazine [May 2008]
