Any Ford Focus Owners?

Grey

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Oct 14, 1999
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I have a 2001 Zx3, I get around 32 Highway 28 city. Winter gas kills me though around 26/22
 

LSUfan

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A friend has one 2000 model says he gets about 28 miles to the gallon. He has not had any problems with his. but check out this link it might let you know if they had any major probs with the car.
2000 focus at alldata
 

T2T III

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I have a friend who contracts for Ford in their mechanic's training division. About the only issue the Focus has faced are issues with defective ball joints. I don't have a Focus, but do have a 1998 ZX2. In nearly 5 years, I've only put 40,000 miles on it because it's just my commuter car. However, through the whole time that I've owned it, I've averaged 28-29 MPG (city and highway driving combined.) The car has been great, reliable and dependable. I was looking to trade it for a newer Focus because I'd like to have 4 doors on my vehicle because my daughter is getting bigger. About the only thing that the standard Focus didn't have was the Zetec engine like my ZX2 has. I thought they were using the Zetec engines across the whole Focus platform, but I guess I was wrong. The Focus that I test drove was a bit quieter than my ZX2 - but I suspect that's because the Zetec engine will rev higher.

Overall, the Focus seems like a good car. I don't think I'd purchase a new one because of how much they'd depreciate. Buy a "nearly new" one where someone else has eaten a big chunk of the depreciation.
 

UnatcoAgent

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We're going to look at one tomorrow, 2001 wagon. Not sure which specific model, I'm hoping it has one of those Z-techengines though.