Ford's new Focus is so good it should make the snobbiest of German car buyers look beyond brand grandeur The new Ford Focus is on sale now with prices starting from £17,930 for the entry-spec family hatchback Ray Massey drove the car for the first time at the international launch in the South of France It feels more engaging than sports cars worth five times as much, and is a tour-de-force of technology, he says Find out why it should make you reconsider buying an Audi, BMW, Mercedes or Volkswagen equivalent It’s only when you climb inside Ford’s new Focus hatchback and drive it that you realise what a cracking family car this really is. If you stuck a premium Audi badge on this then people would be raving about it. But because it carries the familiar everyman blue oval Ford badge, the care and engineering attention to detail that has gone into the new Ford Focus can be easily overlooked. In this respect, the new Focus five-seater family car is a bit of a Cinde...
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