Ford Focus voted greatest car of the past 25 years
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[QUOTE=TestECull;42057281]What about the Crown Vic, guys? It's FAR better as a car than the Focus ever hoped to be. Tough enough to serve as a police cruiser, highway patrol interceptor, NYC taxicab, and yet comfortable and quiet enough to carry you around in comfort for a good price. They're fairly fuel efficient, they can actually get out of their own way, they'll last 30+ years, they'll carry the same amount of people in higher comfort, they have enough trunkspace to tote around a Fiat 500, and they look way better.[/QUOTE]
You can buy a focus pretty much anywhere, you can't say the same for a crown vic. the CV may be more popular by businesses in the US, but they aren't used widely much anywhere else. This is a global thing not a localized US sort of thing.
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I have a ford fuckass, same one as in the pic. Crank windows, manual lock/unlock, no additional features aside from the fact that's a car and it drives.
Ford Forkus master race
also it was less than $2000 so i guess there's that...
I have a 2009 Focus SE. It's alright, yeah it's all plastic, but nothing has gone wrong with it and I bought it used at 43k miles and I'm at probably 81k. Had to replace two tires, recharge the freon and a few oil changes, but it's running strong at 33 MPG average.
hahahahaha, nah
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;42056432]As a car that's well rounded and reliable, I'd say that it's pretty accurate. [i]Greatest[/i] car for the last 25 years seems like a joke to me though. But, as the greatest average joe car, yeah I'd say they're right.
My car is a 91, smack dab in the middle.
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So I'm going to have to disagree.[/QUOTE]
Oh man I'm so jealous.
I actually kinda like the high ground clearance.
Please tell me sir, how does she drive? the SW20 is my favorite car of all time.
[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;42054861]They're great [B]super[/B] cars, but sometimes people forget to make a distinction between them. The Veyron as a toy, as an engineering feat is great, but that is not the same thing as being a good car.[/QUOTE]
Most super cars are terrible for everyday use, but the Veyron is actually very good at it. The reason it won't win awards like this is mostly because of the astronomical price tag.
I gotta say though, I'm not surprised it's a ford but I am surprised it's Focus and not the Mondeo.
I own a 2001 US Focus. 103,000 miles now.
Drives a bit rough now so I need to get work done on it.
[QUOTE=FordLord;42054836]Was wondering why it won, then see the magazine is a UK one.
Here in the US, older Ford Focuses are known as being fairly bad. Pretty much every Focus ive seen here had serious engine/transmission issues at fairly low miles[/QUOTE]
Older Fords in general have a bad reputation. their slamming doors were notorious. I bought a new Fiesta in 2011, and I'm so happy with it.
[QUOTE=Cuon Alpinus;42057960]Oh man I'm so jealous.
I actually kinda like the high ground clearance.
Please tell me sir, how does she drive? the SW20 is my favorite car of all time.[/QUOTE]
It's a 91, so she has the "non-neutered" suspension setup, which is notorious for having snap oversteer. Thankfully, knowing about this beforehand, I've taken the effort to make sure I never become a victim of it. As far as drivability goes I can dive into a corner at full speed and come out the other side maintaining that speed, so it scares the shit out of my passengers. It takes a lot of speed and you need to be high in the rev range to have the back end break out, but when it does as long as you keep the steering as neutral as possible you won't wrap yourself around a tree.
TL;DR It owns and I love it to death, never driven a car that handles as nicely except for maybe the CRX the family shares. :v:
[QUOTE=The golden;42054981]Ford's UK and US models are usually very different.
US Fords are usually flimsy plastic pieces of shit.[/QUOTE]
I like to imagine it this way:
Americans brought Focus to Germany to have it sold there and then the Germans secretly improved it.
Ford Werke G.m.b.H. 2005 Focus represent.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;42056432]As a car that's well rounded and reliable, I'd say that it's pretty accurate. [i]Greatest[/i] car for the last 25 years seems like a joke to me though. But, as the greatest average joe car, yeah I'd say they're right.
My car is a 91, smack dab in the middle.
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So I'm going to have to disagree.[/QUOTE]
I want an MR2 too. Been really looking into them, I don't care about some Focus, I want that.
...Though, didn't those round tail lights only come on models after 1993? A 1991 sw20 comes with these:
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[QUOTE=64fanatic;42056837]Honda Accord is still my choice for best car as far as a daily driver goes.[/QUOTE]
My family's 05 Accord had it's lower ball joint on the front-right tire rust out, and break while we were driving along a road, despite the fact that we had been into Honda service 3 times prior to figure out what was making that clicking noise in the front right tire.
If the joint broke 3 minutes earlier when I was on the highway, there is a chance I wouldn't be here to post this.
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Honda payed for fixing everything, even gave us a loaner car (Insight? Never again.) We still have the Honda, but last year we bought a Volvo which we drive most of the time. 300hp station wagon, vroom vroom.
We had a 2009 Ford Focus, and I still think it was one of the best cars I've driven. The handling has a fun controlled feel about it too. Plus the fuel economy was heaps good. Got >600km on a full tank when driving it normally.
I drive an unfocused it's always really blurry
A very deserving win for the Focus. There have been a lot of reliable, functionally well built vehicles over the years, but the Focus has been one of the most enduring and iconic, specially in Australia.
I have no problem at all with this win.
[QUOTE=*Freezorg*;42058526]I want an MR2 too. Been really looking into them, I don't care about some Focus, I want that.
...Though, didn't those round tail lights only come on models after 1993? A 1991 sw20 comes with these:
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My SW20 had 8 previous owners before I got my hands on it, she's a filthy whore. Somebody did the 94 kouki conversion for the lights, and somebody threw a 3" dual Magnaflow exhaust on there (which I'm totally cool with, considering our CRX and my brothers Golf both have Magnaflows on them, Magnafamily.) But yes you are correct when it comes to the lights.
[QUOTE=matt.ant;42055700]That's a hairdresser's car[/QUOTE]
You're my new favorite facepuncher. No joke.
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[QUOTE=St. Burke;42055114]to be fair, the past 25 years includes the 90s and 80s.
we dont talk about cars from the 90s and 80s[/QUOTE]
There's this too:
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And this:
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And this:
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Hell, you said 90s too, so have a terminator:
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There's lots of beautiful cars from that time. You'd have to be absolutely crazy or tasteless to skip it all by. It's the 70s cars (Though not all) from when SMOG laws first came into effect that you watch out for. Those are the only justifiable years to hate outright.
[QUOTE=Johnny Guitar;42058875]I like the look of the newer ford tarus especially the tarus interceptor
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EDIT: fuck off hotlinks
oh shit I hit reply instead of edit
[QUOTE=St. Burke;42055114]to be fair, the past 25 years includes the 90s and 80s.
we dont talk about cars from the 90s and 80s[/QUOTE]
...Are you joking? Most iconic cars are from the 90's.
And in my opinion, it was the golden era of Rally racing.
[QUOTE=TestECull;42057281]What about the Crown Vic, guys? It's FAR better as a car than the Focus ever hoped to be. Tough enough to serve as a police cruiser, highway patrol interceptor, NYC taxicab, and yet comfortable and quiet enough to carry you around in comfort for a good price. They're fairly fuel efficient, they can actually get out of their own way, they'll last 30+ years, they'll carry the same amount of people in higher comfort, they have enough trunkspace to tote around a Fiat 500, and they look way better.[/QUOTE]
I love Crown Vics, we used to have one that was a previous police interceptor before we bought it, so it still had the holes for the police lights.
Shit tons of trunk space man, too bad they're so rare here.
[QUOTE=TestECull;42057281]What about the Crown Vic, guys? It's FAR better as a car than the Focus ever hoped to be. Tough enough to serve as a police cruiser, highway patrol interceptor, NYC taxicab, and yet comfortable and quiet enough to carry you around in comfort for a good price. They're fairly fuel efficient, they can actually get out of their own way, they'll last 30+ years, they'll carry the same amount of people in higher comfort, they have enough trunkspace to tote around a Fiat 500, and they look way better.[/QUOTE]
They are way too pigfat.
I actually just bought a '13 Focus hatchback, of all the cars in my spending range, it was by far the best vehicle I drove.
Pfft, only because the DeLorean is 30.
Well sure, we can pick out stand out cars from any generation, but i mean-
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:v:
80s and 90s cars are the best. My dad bought a Toyota Hiace '88, bus-model, advertised as "like new." The first thing that happened was that the big side-door fell off. Then I brushed a tree with it (I had just gotten my drivers license, also the tree was in the way) and it revealed that there was nothing but rust beneath the paint. :v:
[QUOTE=St. Burke;42060916]Well sure, we can pick out stand out cars from any generation, but i mean-
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You tried.
[QUOTE=St. Burke;42060916]Well sure, we can pick out stand out cars from any generation, but i mean-
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Really though, there's a ton of great looking 80's and 90's cars.
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Honestly, I think most of the older models of cars are better looking than their current generations counterparts.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;42057355]You can buy a focus pretty much anywhere, you can't say the same for a crown vic. the CV may be more popular by businesses in the US, but they aren't used widely much anywhere else. This is a global thing not a localized US sort of thing.[/QUOTE]
I'd still put the CV ahead of the Focus. If you really insist on a truly global car, the Mondeo/Fusion. Though, I will admit that once you gut the Focus and stuff a Mustang powertrain in it becomes quite the machine...
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[QUOTE=1/4 Life;42058904]
. It's the 70s cars (Though not all) from when SMOG laws first came into effect that you watch out for. Those are the only justifiable years to hate outright.[/QUOTE]
Nah. Firstly, the 70s gave us this:
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Secondly, yes, 70s era smog motors were beyond choked. But here's the thing: 4-5 hours in your driveway with a 9/16" wrench and $500 worth of stuff from Summitt Racing will wake that smog motor right the fuck up. Turn it into the fire breathing monster it would have been had it come out in the late 60s.
70s cars had no balls [i]stock[/i], but if you have even a rudimentary understanding of how engines work and access to some basic hand tools you can fix them just fine. No reason to hate them because of something so easily fixed.
If I had to choose a generation of cars to automatically hate it'd be this one. Mechanically they've never been 'better'. More efficient, more refined, blabla. But visually pretty much everything on the roads looks like it's half melted. Nothing's pretty anymore. On top of that modern cars are forced by law to babysit and nanny the driver, assuming the driver has no fucking idea what they're doing and not getting out of the way when asked to. Which grinds my gears. I'd rather have a smogged out 1970s sedan, because at least that will do what I tell it to do without questioning the input...
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