Focus CC - possible impulse buy

[NergleFuttocks]

Excellent buying skills, that was the auto as well wasn't it?

You don't need skills to buy something like this as virtually no one is after them.

(Can anyone tell I absolutely despise these cars - along with the A3+Golf+T-Roc convertible, Vauxhall Cascada and of course the Evoque convertible)

I get it - totally. If someone had told me I would be buying a Focus this time yesterday I would have laughed at them. It all changes when the love of your life finally feels what it’s like to actually like a car and look forward to driving. Insurance and lack of secure parking ruined her (my) plans for a DB9 or a funky Lotus etc. Neither of us fancy a Porsche (928 notwithstanding) and I was met with a disappointed stare when showing her a mint 900i convertible up the road for 3k.

[LynehamHerc]

This is probably the most important thing:

she loves it

My missus had a Pluriel for about 10 years.
By all absolute standards it was a pile of shite but she loved it.
Her views were a lot different to mine but who's to say that she was wrong, apart from everyone on here of course.

[Guest]

I bet the rear vision is better on those than the Focus hatch. I drove my sister's hatch a few times the rear window seemed the size of a letter box. Reversing it was awful, it was really difficult to judge where the back of it ended. When I visited her one time I noticed a dent in her shed and asked if she had reversed into it, couldn't see any damage to the car though. Apparently it wasn't the car that had hit the shed, but Merlin the labrador doing crazy dog had run smack into it instead.

[panhard65]

If the mrs likes it then it is the best car ever simple as. I am no fan but I would even have another Pluriel if it kept the mrs happy and that thing runs a close second to the Chrysler Lebaron as the worst car I have ever owned.

[SiC]

Mrs SiC doesn't usually express an opinion on cars, they just aren't her thing (apart from an MX5). However she did, unexpectedly, gesture towards a Focus CC and said that type of car shouldn't be allowed to be made. My tastes must be rubbing off on her.

[NergleFuttocks]

Crikey! That bad? Not to worry, I shall remain cheerful.

[paulplom]

I can't understand the negativity. It's cheap topless motoring. Look at the freaking weather ffs.

[LynehamHerc]

And his missus loves it, which is the main thing.

I forsee a special treat or treats for Nergle in the near future.

[Eddie Honda]

It's cheap topless motoring.

No it isn't and you know it.







...Well it was until I exported it.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Excellent buying skills, that was the auto as well wasn't it?

You don't need skills to buy something like this as virtually no one is after them.

(Can anyone tell I absolutely despise these cars - along with the A3+Golf+T-Roc convertible, Vauxhall Cascada and of course the Evoque convertible)

I’d love an Evoque convertible when ( if) they get cheap. I’d OLLI wanker it with big off road tyres and a snorkel , be just like green laning in an open top S1 when I was a kid, just a helluva lot more comfortable and quicker getting there.
We had a Freelander 2, which is what an Evoque is, and it was surprisingly handy on rough tracks , mud etc. Well , until the Haldex fucked up, obviously.