Actually the element had the rear tent (2 of them) the removable cooler, a table, fold down into bed seats, and more interior room than the crv, but on the CR-V platform

I keep hearing this, and I don’t know why. Have 40,000 on a 2016 Fiesta with the DCT and have had zero issues. Now, my brother had a 2013 Focus and that transmission was a pile, but I more attribute that to user error, honestly.

of course you can buy a new Focus in 2021; it just will be a 2018 model

RSes haven’t been marked up since like six months after they hit dealers, unless you live on the coasts.

Bro, that’s fucking evil.



I like it.

Well duh. Hertz has to entice people to “upgrade” to something to get their money from their bullshit size classes. I think they classify the Focus as midsized. 

The Focus sedan is fine in the looks department - the hatch is obviously better because the hatch is always better.

I’m sure 92-95% are the 2.0/DCT with the rest being everything else. 

Fiesta sedan looks so bad I’m always surprised whenever I see one that someone actually paid money for it.

And I have to move 9000 of them every time I need to get something out of the lineup here at my dealership.

Eh, my s/o drives a 17 Titanium and it’s well enough equipped. Sync 3 works pretty well and the heated seats are nice. It’s on it’s second transmission but 2 years in and it hasn’t given us the dreaded “juddering”. For a $15k car you could do a lot worse 

You mean the head gasket issue that affected about 10% of the RS's sold? Judging by your profile picture I'm sure the Z06 overheating issues and Z/28 sticker markup wasn't a big deal for you

Of these I'm sure half will be going to fleets. 

I’m wondering the numbers of MT vs AT and 1.0L vs 2.0L. Even ST/RS variants....

Had one (5 speed!) and foolishly got rid of it. I miss it.

I’ve got a ‘16 Focus sedan, it’s a shame the DCT’s problems destroyed whatever brand equity the car had. It’s such a fun, well equipped little car.

I’m sure there’ll be some available for sale this time next year. 

My mom special ordered a 2000 with leather interior, 5-speed manual and the “awd”. Currently replacing ball joints on it and then will drive it for another 5+ years. 

Gm’s ‘infotainment’ has been a dumpster fire ever since they started integrating ‘smart features’ into their cars. Great car, shitty interfaces. People are so attached to their devices that you really can grenade the sales of a car if it has a shitty car-to-phone interface.

The Cruze in the picture is actually a fun and quite quick car to drive except for 2 things: The CVT transmission can get you killed from a standing start like left hand turns, and the instrument cluster was a five alarm fire of too busy and confusing.