Faults:

My car started to leak oil around 1700 miles. And both of my fog lights went out.

General Comments:

The reason I rated the dealership so badly is because they told me my car would be done in 2 days. Instead, it took them a week and a half. As for the comfort, plenty of room and head space, but the seats themselves feel like rocks. I start to get lower back pains every time I enter the vehicle. Besides those problems, its not really a bad car. Very gas miserly and well placed gauges.

Faults:

Right off of the lot I had a bad feeling about this car. Only two days later my first problem kicked in. You know how your supposed to at least what until you have 1000 miles kicked in before revvin' it up, well I did. After 100 miles of slow driving, my car begins to vibrate drastically. I mean from normal driving. The next problem were the windows squealing. First the driver side than the passenger side a week later. Now I've only had this car for a month and already dislike it a lot.

General Comments:

This car does not even have the same fuel economy as posted. I pick up very slowly to break in my car and to view the best possible gas mileage and still come up very short. City being 20mpg and the highway coming up way less than marked at 25mpg. Those differences come out to about a 10mpg difference. I highly do not recommend this car to anyone. I choose the Power Premium package with moon-roof. I would've gladly given up the extra 3 horsepower to get the same price and by far better reliability of the HONDA CIVIC. Heave my warning and stick with HONDA. I give this car an overall rating of 4/10. As soon as I finish paying off my debt, I'm selling this one to some sucker who hasn't read this and buy a Honda Civic EX!!!!!

P.S. For those that actually want to know where redline is, its at 6750 because its not shown. To have made sure thats right, I talked to my dealer. The older ones redline at 6250. And SVT at 7200.

Faults:

Nothing so far.

General Comments:

This car is one of the best car on the road.

The design is slick, with some aftermarket products like lowering spring, ground kit and bigger wheels it can be very attractive.

Faults:

With the Astro? Well, there were 11 things broken on the '88 LT conversion van when traded. I only admitted to the water pump problem... That poor thing would break 2 items for every 1 repaired. Disastro Van was more like it.

Nothing wrong with the Ford Focus, yet, but I bought the ESP/TotalCare warranty for a whopping $1450...sans ZTW options. Boo I figure since I shelled out for all this warranty, this car will probably run flawless for 5 years, 70,000 miles before it starts to fail out. Will be traded by then.

General Comments:

The interior and exterior of the car are flawless. Good attention to detail and...well, this car was built in Wayne, Mi.: Michigan is home of Detroit, close enough for me, so the Detroit end had its hand in making this one. Good Deal! I have concerns about Hermosillo Mexico only because Pedro, well, Pedro dosen't always put Quality as Job #1, that's all I'll say. I'm glad mine came from the Stateside factory.

My only gripe is the gas Pedal is too far forward and I'm used to having a relaxed legspace to prop on. I constantly have to hold my knee muscle in a tense state to get the gas pedal proper, and this causes pain when walking after exiting the vehicle. This is a euro designed pedal position, but if I had any suggestion to Ford, get the pedal lower to the floor and longer in length to accomodate the big footed 12w 6 ft 205 lb man. The Taurus gas pedal is just right. There ya go.