Richard Hammond review of the Ford Focus Hatchback

[omip]

Any Ford Focus potential buyers - great review by Richard Hammond of this great motor!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrD7gj6trNE

[65comet]

But the video is for the 2001. It isn't the same car for model year 2014. Not helpful really, unless you are looking for a 2001.

[omip]

More useful for used car/second-hand buyers - plus a bit of Richard Hammond nostalgia!

[65comet]

I like the BBC Top Gear. But they seem to try and put down America, Americans or American cars in every episode. The US Top Gear doesn't do that. I guess it shows they have an inferiority complex.

[paulwilcox1973]

Originally Posted by 65comet

I like the BBC Top Gear. But they seem to try and put down America, Americans or American cars in every episode. The US Top Gear doesn't do that. I guess it shows they have an inferiority complex.

haha I guess I can understand where you're coming from but I think it's just that they don't always particularly like the way US cars are constructed - I guess some people do and some don't, it just depends on your preference.

I read a pretty interesting post by an English car seller which might cheer you up haha, it's on Ford celebrating their 20th birthday, there's a lot of really cool stats too - http://www.evanshalshaw.com/Blog/blog-look_whos_20.html

[65comet]

It's all in good fun. We over here grew up with highways and interstate expressways that go straight in one direction for hundreds of miles. Over there the roads without curves are not a natural phenomena. So our cars took totally different directions in their designs based on the environment they were to be used in. When they put one of our cars on their test track, it either over-steers or under-steers terribly going around "Chicago" because in their normal use, 99.9999% of the time they are going straight and come to a complete stop before making a turn.