http://www.houstoncars.org/2008-ford-focus-review.php Car Reviews, News, and Rambling Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:27:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.houstoncars.org/2008-ford-focus-review.php/comment-page-1#comment-7196 Tim Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:14:06 +0000 http://www.houstoncars.org/2008-ford-focus-review.php#comment-7196 It amazes me that manufacturers still consider "all-new" to be oh-so-valid when it is oh-so-not true. Clearly not offering the buyers any status closely linked to "educated". <a href="http://goodcarbadcar.blogspot.com/2007/10/2008-modified-ford-foci.html" rel="nofollow">GoodCarBadCar.net just reported on the nine modified Foci</a> at the SEMA show, but gave no credit to Ford for releasing them. The Mazda 3 comment makes a lot of sense - very few new cars these days are "bad", but there are better options, and those options reveal cars, like the Focus, to be bad. It amazes me that manufacturers still consider “all-new” to be oh-so-valid when it is oh-so-not true. Clearly not offering the buyers any status closely linked to “educated”. GoodCarBadCar.net just reported on the nine modified Foci at the SEMA show, but gave no credit to Ford for releasing them. The Mazda 3 comment makes a lot of sense – very few new cars these days are “bad”, but there are better options, and those options reveal cars, like the Focus, to be bad.

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