2022 Ford Focus

2022 Ford Focus

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simonwhite2000

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2,541 posts

104 months

Tuesday 16th November 2021
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Placed an order yesterday for a 2022 Focus 1.0 EcoBoost ST-Line Vignale 5dr on a lease via Central on 1x35 £214 per month. Never had a Ford before personally.

Anybody else ordered or looking to order the new Focus? Any general experiences with the current gen good or bad?

PisstNBroke

1,091 posts

231 months

Sunday 28th November 2021
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Its just a face-lift of the current? Think only difference will be heater controls incorporated into the radio which I'm not a fan of.
I have a 2019 active x estate diesel one of the first of its generation, just gone over 50k on clock at 28 months old. Not much has been has happened, headlining did sqeak at first but now resolved and there was a sensor issue on my engine but that was semi known due to transits and happed around 36k. Third service due at 54k.
As with most manufactures dealerships play an important part and I'm lucky enough to have a good smaller dealership on my doorstep.
Overall its been in the garage less than the dieselgate manufacture before.

Camelot1971

2,751 posts

173 months

Monday 29th November 2021
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Aren't ST Line and Vignale 2 different trim levels?

simonwhite2000

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2,541 posts

104 months

Wednesday 8th December 2021
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PisstNBroke said:
Its just a face-lift of the current? Think only difference will be heater controls incorporated into the radio which I'm not a fan of.
I have a 2019 active x estate diesel one of the first of its generation, just gone over 50k on clock at 28 months old. Not much has been has happened, headlining did sqeak at first but now resolved and there was a sensor issue on my engine but that was semi known due to transits and happed around 36k. Third service due at 54k.
As with most manufactures dealerships play an important part and I'm lucky enough to have a good smaller dealership on my doorstep.
Overall its been in the garage less than the dieselgate manufacture before.
Yes its the facelift. Never had a Ford before so will be interesting to see what it's like. I am not a fan of heating controls on screens either although some do it better than others. The new VAG media system is an absolute horror show whereas the screen controls on my wifes Touareg are not bad.
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simonwhite2000

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104 months

Wednesday 8th December 2021
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Camelot1971 said:
Aren't ST Line and Vignale 2 different trim levels?
Used to be, but now they are combined.

PisstNBroke

1,091 posts

231 months

Thursday 9th December 2021
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Yup although Vignale started off on its own they now do both the ST-Line and Active as a Vignale. I think they're fully spec'ed out so all option boxes ticked? Pop up displays, rear camera, auto parking etc.

But what are you coming from? And what made you choose the 1 litre?

simonwhite2000

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2,541 posts

104 months

Friday 10th December 2021
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PisstNBroke said:
Yup although Vignale started off on its own they now do both the ST-Line and Active as a Vignale. I think they're fully spec'ed out so all option boxes ticked? Pop up displays, rear camera, auto parking etc.

But what are you coming from? And what made you choose the 1 litre?
Coming from an 8 series! Simply put, we now have a baby due in March and wife will only go back to work 2 days a week until they go to school. So need to cut spend and cars is the easiest way.

I wanted a no deposit lease as money is going into a kitchen refit at the moment so I was aiming for £200 a month with no deposit. This was the best I could find from a high spec perspective. I could have had more power in a lower spec for a bit more money but its going to be used for an 18 mile round trip commute so preference was more kit. Previous cars have been 840, multiple S5's and Golf R. We still have a new Touareg Black edition as a main car.

Ideally I wanted auto as well but it was another £36 a month so back to rowing cogs for the first time since 2014.