Ford Focus (What's going on?)

[abdallah79]

gentelmen-
this will be long so please be pacient.
i started thinking to change my car which is a new accent 1.6 112hp with another car that have an automatic shift and cruise controll. one of the strong competitors was the ford focus so i decided to do some research (research included this nice forum).

so, i went to the showroom in nacr city (wara game3 el salam) and saw some models and i liked the complete Ghia. which costs 150. and i decided to make some research as well and there are things that i liked and things i disliked.

i liked the shape, the comfort, the suspension (mayekhtelefsh 3alaih 2), and the price regarding the options provided.
what i disliked, (el ta3teem el kamel al motakamel men el tawkeel 3an ay ma3lomat 3an wogood shakl gdeed we esrarhom en el shakl dah men hayenzel masr khales we hadretak ettamen ya fandem hatefdal rakeb new shape forever ISA),
when i read the service provided by the fikry group they claimed that the sparkplugs should be replaced by 20000 km.
when i tried to make a test drive for the car they told me to wait, then wait up to 3 weeks then i went 3ala ghafla keda we 3amalt nafsy wahed gdeed we seme3t alazzz rad fe hayaty.

sa2alny el baih hoa enta 3ayez tegarab aih belzabt.
2olteloh 3ayez ashouf sa7baah elly koll el nas eshtaket mennoh momken yekoon monaseb leya. we kaman ashouf el response beta3 elthrottle la2n fe 3arabeyat feeha lag fel accelerator zay el civic.
2ally el test drive elly enta 3ayzoh da mayenfa3sh ana momken akhaleek tegarbha hawaleena hena, 2oltelo dah awe we tany we ay kalba ballady will do good fel hetta dy.

2ally ana waseq fe swa2tak tab3an bas asl modeery menabbeh 3alaina ennena mankhaleesh had yegry beeha.

el mohem rohtelhom ba3d youmain la2ayt wahed gdeed 3amalt nafsy ana kaman gdeed fa 2ally e7na mabna3melsh testdrive we 3omrena makan 3andena test drive, sa2alto tayeb el shakl el gdeed nazel emta 2ally el shakl da le2amrica bas mesh leena, 2oltelo el shakl elly fe europe hoa elly gayelna ana bas 3ayez a3raf gay emta. 2ally mesh 2abl sanatayn ya fandem.

we ana mesh 3aref a3mel aih.


we nefsy had ye2olly a3mel aih 3ashan a3raf el shakl el gdeed da gay emta we fain. we 3ala fekra ana ba3aty mail lel nas el helwa beto3 ford international, we raddo 3alaya bebasata 2aloolo an da mail for north america bas.
i replied enn mafeesh site le masr 3ashana ab3ata 3alaih, 2alool bardo check your local we bsite please we bta3.

law 7ad ye3raf gaya emta el shakl el gdeed, walla mesh gaya. we ezzay a3mel test drive, we laih el seyana bet2fel el gom3a (very very weired) ya raiy ye2olly.



thanks in advance.

[Mustafa_Farouk]

i thnik it dosen't matter if will be a new shape or not but the most important thing is: Focus 2008 in Egypt is a good car or not ?
really i want to know if any body had bought it or not and what's his opinion about it and El-Tawkil ??

[SEATLOVER]

i think you should looking for more populare car
you have many better choices at this range of money like

Mitsubishi Lancer EX
mazda 3 euro
honda civic
toyota corolla
renault megane
skoda octavia
volkswagen getta

fikry group will go on better at comming future but with very slowly steps

[sa3dawy]

i think you should looking for more populare car
you have many better choices at this range of money like

Mitsubishi Lancer EX
mazda 3 euro
honda civic
toyota corolla
renault megane
skoda octavia
volkswagen getta

fikry group will go on better at comming future but with very slowly steps

+10000000000000000000000000000000000000

[sa3dawy]

3ala fekra belnesba ll new shape
al ford focus beta3t amreca shakl 3'er ely bygy hena 7ata khod balak mn shakl 2007 beta3 amreca hatla'eh mo5talef ya3ny el shakl el gdeed da le america bas

[hosam2010]

i think you should looking for more populare car
you have many better choices at this range of money like

Mitsubishi Lancer EX
mazda 3 euro
honda civic
toyota corolla
renault megane
skoda octavia
volkswagen getta

fikry group will go on better at comming future but with very slowly steps

depnding on what you compare foucus with this list of cars
???!!!
for example:mazda3 shares the same platform with focus and had a bad agent sp it gonna be better than ford focus
skoda octavia and volkswagen getta are not the same price at all they are much expensive
megan: i dont think at all that megan is better
for lancer ,civic, and crolla yes thats a good alternatives and you may compare between them to take the best decesion
Best Regards

[Mustafa_Farouk]

3ala fekra belnesba ll new shape
al ford focus beta3t amreca shakl 3'er ely bygy hena 7ata khod balak mn shakl 2007 beta3 amreca hatla'eh mo5talef ya3ny el shakl el gdeed da le america bas

yes i agree with that.
i saw Focus and really it looks very nice and i prefer it more than Civic because it's higher than it so will not hear the sound of EL METABAT.
the engine and there's another thing is made in Germeny and the rest made in Spain, this shape for Euro not for USA.
spare parts comes with nice price, u can ask for the list and they will give it to u.
the sales person who i speak with him is Ashraf and he's so helpful and friendly.
Getta and Octavia are perfect but they are expinsive.
if i'm going to buy, i'll compare between Megane and Focus

[sa3dawy]

yes i agree with that.
i saw Focus and really it looks very nice and i prefer it more than Civic because it's higher than it so will not hear the sound of EL METABAT.
the engine and there's another thing is made in Germeny and the rest made in Spain, this shape for Euro not for USA.
spare parts comes with nice price, u can ask for the list and they will give it to u.
the sales person who i speak with him is Ashraf and he's so helpful and friendly.
Getta and Octavia are perfect but they are expinsive.
if i'm going to buy, i'll compare between Megane and Focus

+100000
focus is cool but megane 've more equipment and its very very comfotable and tip tronic ..panorama sunroof i think if u got silver one with panorama sunroof u will be glad

[momomania22]

خليك في الفورد ،، عربية جامدة جدا

[abdallah79]

gentlemen-

give me like 5 days, a freind of mine is buying a focus this week ISA and as usual i'll do the one hour test drive i do to my freinds cars, let me try it and will feed you back.

as i did some test drives for most of the cars in the range, like megane, A5, jetta, civic, mazda 3 and lancer sport 1.6. i think i can rank it for you in terms of driving pleasure mainly and other stuff.

we 3ala fekra el model el gdeed nazel nazel (europian not american) 3ashan el tawkeel ma3andoush Ghia aslan ba2alo 2 weeks we mesh 3aref gaya emta.

[hosam2010]

we are waiting for your reviews

[abdallah79]

سلام عليكم
أنا كنت قلت اني هجرب فوكس ٢٠٠٨ و الحمدلله حصل بس صاحبي كان بيلين الأول أبل مرحلة النفخ:

so what did happened is that i tok the car for an hour in diffrent locations in nasr city and in the ring road from nasr city to maadi and back. the car was a basic automatic, with no cruise control and stuff, first i couldn't feel the car good (i go with a hyundai) i thought that the pedals were sponge first. but 2ew3a weshak. with the first really fast turn it handels marvelous, amaizingly it just go exactly where you point seems like the blade suspension technology is working (had garrab yetla3 men el tagamo3 fe etegahda2ery el ma3ady fel nafa2 3ala 80 we fel malaf yerfarmel) it was not part of the test it was for real, the car is also very quite (very noticable) it just runs quite at speeds up to 130 then the engine starts to speack loud (grrr) also the engine sounds are not agressive or vibrant.
testing the acceleration (scince this is one important thing to me i do a test in the same place and run from a mark to a mark and see top speed reached in that distance) so by fixing every thing (including no of passengers) results were as follows.

verna 1.6 mt 150 km/hr
elantra 1.6 auto 130 km/hr
new accent 1.6 mt 140 km /hr
Megane sedan auto 125 km/hr
Jetta 1.6 auto 125 km/hr
Focus 1.6 auto 120 km /hr

so as we see it was not the best among cars i have tested But it's not that slow really (not a lancer 1.3 auto ya3ny).
steptronic is not stupid like the one in the mazda3, the throttle is responsive (drive by wire engine) wit no lag like the civic (of course civic is faster, i only said response).

the car is quite like a megane, steeing feels great really great. car is peacefull.

brakes are very very good (intelligent ABS).


so as a bottom line:

quite,fast, good handling (wet/dry)good brakes, fair acceleration, gear ratios are wide)

so among all the ars i have driven till now it was really good (but i still prefers a jetta)
now the new shape is available starting August 2008 (2009 model) and they claim that they got 17 more hp with the same duratech engine reaching 119 (i doupt), they have two ghias 145 and 150 LE with the sunroof as a diffrence, and a higher model with leather and parking sensors and digital A/C costing 160.

sorry for the delay and i hope someone out there might find this usefull.

[hosam2010]

Thanks alot for that great review,when i read it i felt like i read a review in whatcar it was really professional now my questions is when you test the accelaration was using striptronic or just using the standersd auto gear box?
by the way there is a trend model in the new shape costs 135 LE it is more expensive 5000 le than the old shape
from my point of view yes i think that the jetta is better but i doubt its reliability because of the Brazilian assembled also eltwkeel zeft! also se3raha mobala3' feeeh awi(taba3an el tawkeel 3aiez yeksab kteeer),

[abdallah79]

thnx ya basha, the test i do wit any auto car is simply a kickdown from the zero and i let her handle except for one thing, i release my foot fro mthe accelerator just a little bit to give her a chance to move one gear up the to the floor again, regarding the trend model the guy didn't tell me any thing about it , thnx for the info.
the jetta i drove was a full option gulf specs from gaber abdelshaheed and the service is every 15000 km in amir we gozef in nasr city, so no worries about el tawkell ebnel******* el me3**** we kha***** la2anohom beshehadet el nas kollaha mowa2a3een agmal 3arabeyat fel2ard.

we service el jetta 15 (oil and filter) we 30(oil and filter) we 45(oil and filter and AC filter) we 60 (oil and filter and somthing 3abeet keda zay brakes oil) 75 (oil and filter) we 90 (oil and filter and air filter)
so practically if every thing goos good the first real service is @ 105 masalan
fahatkoon a3adt 3-4 years in peace, then to the hell of the service.

bas tab3an el focus gamda gamda gamda we hadya keda we na3ma we fel zahma you can keep the manual mode active in the first gear till 40 km and back to zero law 3ayez tetnattat zay el kora el geld fel share3 we mesh hatgeeb el 2nd ella fel red zone, we i noticed that the air conditione4r is some how weak after my freind do the service for the ac we will se as it might be just some CFC needed.

[abdallah79]

another thing to add the engine is officially 100 PS which as i know means horsr power, check the british websitefor the 1.6 engine, mesh 3aref ana el stablat dy we 119 we 140(civic) we kalam fare3' we dayman ba7ess enohom beykhatbo ansaf mota3alemeen, we rabbena yetala3na menha 3ala khair