[NOS2Go4Me]

K_OS,Mar 15 2005, 03:14 PM Wrote:

meford4u,Mar 15 2005, 02:52 PM Wrote:Once again i must interject and tell KOS to go to car hell.  You like the mini, and you like the Hyundai, as a better car than the Focus?  You live in a strange world my freind.  I say sell the Focus and buy a Hyundai and enjoy yourself.

I will never own a Hyundai. 

What a joke.
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I was already in car hell I got in when I bought a Ford, I went to get my ZX3 repaired so often I was on a 1st name basis with the service manager.

Actually I sold the Focus 2 years ago and I've been driving my Hyundai Accent GSi ever since so far the only time I've gone to see Hyundai was to get my brakes done a year ago, yes it is a smaller car but in the end it's given me less grief than my ZX3.

On the coolness factor any of my Mini's blows away any Focus.

The joke is the fact that Ford is slowly loosing market share to Hyundai and the rest of the imports and people like you keep buying there crap just because it's built in NA.

Laterz :)
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I actually beat the s**t out of a GSi for a weekend at the dealer's expense here in NB. I did everything with it I would with the Focus. By the end of the weekend, it actually had creaks and rattles, and felt noticeably less "tight".

You can make all the cracks you want about the Focus, but at the end of the day, an Accent is an Escort fighter. It's clearly outdistanced across the board by the Focus because it's not meant to fight the Focus. I mean, I can go get a bottom-end Accent GS for like 12K. There's almost NOTHING in the car, literally. You have no problems with it because it's 1.6L of DOHC hamster fury. I'd put the SPI up against it any day of the week. My puny 14" tires will out-corner it, I'll out-brake it, and I'll out-pimp it, too.

Sorry... the Mini is a very cool car, and I'd own one right now if I could actually fit in it. But the Accent has NOTHING on the Focus besides an unfair price advantage.