2001 Ford Focus ZX3 review from North America

Well first of all let's start at the dealer, who told me it had 4 wheel steering... After 2 days of ownership the cooling fan off, well traveling to work they are not bolted and I managed to snap it back in place that's quality there folks "no bolts reqired"...,lucky it didn't break. 4 weeks later it rained and flooded the passenger side of the car, I was told it was the windshield and it was replaced...2 days later it rained again and flooded just the same although the winshield was leaking and the headliner was water damaged Ford refused to replace it. so the second time I came back my sunroof was apparently causing the flooding I mean flooding 5 inches in the passenger side! they said they got it cleaned out... lol not...it hadent rained in a long time so next October (this month 2003) about 3 months later it was time for servicing again they replaced the 9th tail lamp and license place light along with the shifter base which is plastic and breaks easily, they replaced the radio which even died! they did the repairs on Saturday and on Monday when I went to go for to work my car was once again flooded and badly OK by this time I'm beyond pissed and I took it to the dealer, where I was told the cowl was not seamed sealed at the factory "well isn't that nice" I told the manager ford can't even get a machine to build their crappy cars right... the entire dash, heater, stereo system, rug, seats, consel and electrical system had to be taken out I informed the manager that the car is getting new rug and that ford is paying for it. I was informed they had no courtesy car's. well I work an hour and a half away in a remote community what the hell am I supposed to do walk 120kms one way! I also forgot to mention the wheel bearings and wiring had been recalled along with my brakes which had wore out very quickly considering all the car See's is highway km's and the rear tires wore out faster than the front tire's! gosh when I think about all the problems I've had I love to kill the focus engineering team and tell em to go back to Hyundai, which is making an attractive buy considering the ford has more problems! ford lick me!

It handles good and looks good to me, the seats are comfortable which is why I bought the car in the first place. Too bad Ford messed it up and made it a sour lemon.