Originally Posted by
markie t
he he he, i knew someone would say that,
to be fair they are reliable its that some people work on them and dont know what they are doing, i wonder if these focus family cars will still be going in 25yrs time with all the electronics and spanners wont fix them!
I owned my Sapphire for 13 years and pumped thousands in to it, dream car for me as I always wanted one, Cosworths were out of reach for me when they came out but the wait was worth while, I think the vast majority of problems you get with them is when you start chasing the big horse power figures, it killed mine ultimately and I thought to myself it’s time to move on and buy a newer car which I did three years ago a bought a MK2 Focus RS
great car imo, still smitten with it and love driving it which like the cossie isn’t that often, the problem with Cossies now is you can’t get bits for them, even engine parts are hard to source these days and body panels forget it
Originally Posted by
cossynut2
I do think the popping and banging that you can make happen with the new Focus RS seems to be its signature with a lot of owners. At Simply Ford in Beaulieu back in May there was a group of 5 or 6 of them all one behind the other in the queue revving the guts out of them to get them popping and banging to "impress " everyone. Most people thought it was just very annoying!!
My MK2 FRS pops and bangs and it is a bit of a gimmick, with my Cosworth it was the flamer kit and the noise of the turbo when I fitted a cone filter, but having said that I wouldn’t be revving the tits off it at a show or a supermarket car park and or driving like a loon in Lidl’s car park, I would find that juvenile and annoying too, just like the thumping stereos I find that really annoying and pointless as well, but as I said in my original post the car does not make or determine how the driver will behave, it’s the person that does that