Current Focus- boring to look at?

I prefer the new one but its really a matter of personal taste!

MattF

Yeah even the original focus dashboard was much more interesting. It's just a load of boring black plastic now.

The original Focus was more or less 100% designed and engineered at Ford's Dunton Technical Centre in Essex.

The current model was designed and engineered by Ford's Merkenich Technical Centre in Germany. I suppose it's right what they say about the Germans' lack of creative flair...

The only model from the current Focus range that I'd even consider owning is the ST, whereas I'd have been happy with a cooking model from the original range.

Andy Tucker ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I don't want the car, but I *love* that orange shade.

Wonder how well it'd brush-paint onto the sheddy ol' van?

Thanks for that. Explains a lot.

I quite like the look of the new Focus model, you can see that it has something in common with Volvo S40. In fact the Estate version looks strikingly similar to Volvo V50. It's quite true that it has something German about it, efficient rather than flair. But then it's that type of no frills family car. As the Volvo, it looks durable, but whether this is real, remains to be seen.