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By Tom Phillips 30th July 2010
Ford reckons is next Focus will be ready for anything. And to make sure its new Golf challenger can cope with any conditions drivers can throw at it, Ford’s engineers have travelled the globe in search of the most testing conditions around. As part of the third generation Focus development, prototypes have been thrashed over frozen arctic lakes, hammered across the hottest deserts, and driven overloaded up and down high Alpine passes to ensure impeccable reliability and dependability. Ford uses the Grossglockner High Alpine road in Austria. It’s a 30-mile route which travels through the Hohe Tauern National Park through 36 challenging bends up to a maximum height of 2,504 metres. And with gradients of up to 12 per cent, and the thin air at such high altitudes, the location is perfect for putting the Focus through its paces Read more: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/au...#ixzz0vFxZu0cP
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Why dress her in cammys? They already showed what she looks like at the launch.
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Still no word from Ford Aust when this puppy will come to Aust?? God hope we dont have to wait until 2012 for the new tihailand plant to open?
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they just muffed the look of the car
 They should have opted for something very similar to the RS, but no, they had to redesign the whole thing.. |
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I'm not sure what you mean by saying they should have made it similar to the RS? The current RS is based on the LV (ST) So with this being the new design, the next RS will be based on this model. It's not usually the otherway around. It would be like saying they build the FPV and base the G6 from that design.
This is the new generation so of course it has been totally redesigned. I don't think it looks too bad. I'm looking forward to seeing what performance models come out in the new model now the XR5 is no more.
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the rear profile looks to similar to the current astra
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Ford tests new Focus to its limits
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