Ford Focus Titanium 2.0 TDCI 140PS
Ford Focus Titanium 2.0 TDCI 140PS
What is it?
THE leading family hatchback in the market, the Ford Focus has been reinvented in Mk3 guise. It’s totally new with a clear range line-up, a lower roofline for sportier styling and stuffed with technology – some of which cost extra, but at good value prices. We’ve already tested the Ford Focus 1.6 TDCI Zetec model; this is the 2.0 TDCI Focus in Titanium trim. On the road from £20,745.
What’s hot?
- The Focus has lost none of its panache for rewarding the driver…
- …you’ll be heading for wide open A roads as soon as you can
- Standard torque vectoring keeps front wheels where you point them
- Chassis is taut and remains firmly planted: glides over crests and humps
- While suspension is supple enough to stop crashing and thumping
- Helped by accurate electric power steering
- Engine delivers bundles of effortless low-down go
- And progress is amazingly quiet and refined
- Clever Driver Assistance Pack good value option at £750…
- …it’s stuffed full of useful driver safety assistance technology
- Graphics and sat-nav easy to read and use
- Titanium provides good standard of equipment
- And £400 extra for alloys on 18ins wheels gives real visual presence
- And there’s also Ford’s excellent Quickclear heated screen as standard
- CO2 emissions are 129g/km so company car tax is at 18%
- Fuel economy is 56.5mpg – we recorded 43.5mpg
- Despite low roofline, surprisingly good leg and headroom in rear
What’s not?
- Steering is accurate but slightly divorced of feel
- Boot size is on the small size for class – and there’s a high lip
- Sharp edges on some of the plastic finishings…
- Occasional cabin rattles (but interior so quiet now they are amplified)
- No fuel-saving stop-start
- Additional budget required for Driver Assistance Pack (£750)…
- …Audio Navigation System (£550) and 18ins alloys (£400)
What you need to Know?
| P11D Value: | 20,690 |
| Monthly Rental*: | 295 (CH)/£354 (PCH) |
| Tax Band when posted: | 18%, 18%, 19% |
| Monthly BiK: | Click link for BIK |
| Engine: | 2.0 4-cyl turbo diesel |
| CO2 Emissions: | 129g/km |
| Power/torque: | 140PS/320Nm |
| Economy: | 56.5mpg |
Monthly contract hire (CH) and personal contract hire (PCH) rentals generated by Concept Vehicle Leasing. Based on a 36 month lease at 10,000 miles a year, 3+35 payments.
