How does the new Ford Focus look?
It’s not striking in the same way as Toyota’s new Auris, but there’s enough modernity to keep the Focus looking fresh at the start of what will be the next seven or eight years on sale.
New Ford Focus unveiled as ‘most advanced’ model yet
Design aside, things move on as you’d expect: continually downsized engines, more weight taken out of the body-in-white and a car that will likely just improve the breed as new cars tend to do. If there’s a disappointment, for me it’s that there’s no part-electrification of the powertrains from the very start, but it’s coming.
If there’s something to savour, it’s that Ford knows how seriously its customers take the fact that its cars are engaging and fun to drive. So while talk of new tech and it being the most advanced car in the class is great, the thing I’m most looking forward to is finding out what it’s like from behind the wheel.
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Fiesta or not?
With the new Fiesta available and Focus dropping IRS on some models focus does lose some of it's raison d'être.
If the Fiesta is roomy enough for a prospective buyer then it will be faster and more economical when compared to it's equivalent focus sister, also cheaper to buy and run.
1.0 125ps fiesta - 0-62 9.4 sec, focus 1.0 125ps 0-62 11.0 sec. Fuel, extra urban - fiesta 76 mpg, focus 69 mpg. (focus numbers are for mk3)
Fiesta only has to optimise one suspension design. Focus is juggling three types of rear suspension including the modified IRS estate variant, there must be compromises from using so many? Also, it may not be the old control blade type fitted to the mk3 focus versions, as it is now described as double wishbone.
So the well proven original system might have gone altogether?
Independent rear suspension
The move to a twist beam rear suspension on cheaper cars could be cause for concern but if anyone can make it work, Ford can. I rode in the back of a 2013 Fiesta with a twist beam rear axle and the quality of the damping was very impressive.