Figo said:
The focus was and still is probably one of the finest driving front wheel drive cars. Especially the MK1 when you think of the fodder that other manufacturers were ploughing out. Even a basic 1.4 focus was a tidy car to drive whereas most other manufactures were happy to churn out rubbish and then only tidy up the handling for their halo models. take the similar era 306. Amazing in GTi form... a piece and a half in its lowest guise. Even Vauxhall back then couldn't get it right. the Astra SRi's had lost their way considerably and even the SRi-Turbo was dull.
Not to mention what VW was doing to the golf at that point :lol: Stuffing its face full of cakes and giving it an asthmatic engine
Absolutely. I'm still driving an ST170 at present, and it's like a little go-kart.
Plus Fords have always been great for their cheap/fast models, and for their ease of tarting up for want of a better phrase, hence their popularity. This is my 8th Ford I think off the top of my head, and only a couple of the really cheap early cars in my life have been bad buys.