[NefCanuck]

NOS2Go4Me,Nov 6 2005, 10:06 PM Wrote:Length of test: ~400KMs, mostly highway driving.

Spec: Ecotec 2.2L 4-cyl, 4-speed automatic.

It's darty. Think cocaine-infused alleycat piloting a soapbox derby racer, chasing a mouse on LSD. Yeah, it's THAT darty. It's also the first car I've had to drive with 2 hands all the way from North Bay to Toronto, in bad and good weather. It doesn't matter if you're doing 80 KM/H or 140 KM/H... it's quite unstable.

Think nitroglycerine. In a can. Held in a paintmixer. Doing a HALO drop over Nicaragua in 1975 or so.

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Geez that's bad, but then again, compared to my last car, the Focus was a twitchy SOB initally as well (Esp. the turning radius, it felt/feels like is was less than half of my old car) Heck, seven months later the car still manages to catch me unaware when it reacts sooner than I thought it would, though its much dartier when its just me aboard as opposed to a full load of passengers.

But I can drive one handed in the Focus no problem (In my Olds it was one finger though :P)

NefCanuck