The Spanish website Km77 has put the new to the test Ford Focus and the blue oval brand template managed to pass the test at 83 km/h, an impressive figure. Who said that to get a good result in the moose test do I need a highly evolved suspension scheme?
The unit tested, a Focus 1.0 EcoBoost, did not have the rear suspension of the multilink type, which equips the more powerful versions of the new model, but the simpler rear suspension with torsion bars, which makes this result even more impressive.
Successfully passing — without dropping any cones — at 83 km/h is a really good value. To give you an idea, this speed was the same as the McLaren 675LT and Audi R8 V10 achieved in the same test.
80 km/h club
With this result, the Ford Focus joins the restricted “80 km/h” club, where all the models that managed to reach 80 km/h or more in this test can be found. In this group there are, in addition to McLaren and Audi, some surprises such as the Nissan X-Trail dCi 130 4×4 (the only SUV that managed to complete the test at 80 km/h).However, the speed record in the moose test still belongs to a car from… 1999. Yes, only the Citroën Xantia V6 active , to date, has managed to do better by reaching 85 km/h — thanks to the miraculous Hydractive suspension.
The Ford Focus Test
In the first attempt, the test driver from the Spanish site, without knowing the car's reactions to the violent mass transfers, easily managed to reach 77 km/h, proving the predictability of the Focus' reactions.
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In the best attempt, at 83 km/h, there is a slight understeer and it is even possible to observe the moment when the stability control comes into action (indicated by the activation of the brake lights). However, according to the Km77 team, the stability control action is subtle and precise.
Finally, the Ford Focus was also put to the test in a slalom test, which it accomplished at a speed of around 70 km/h, and the tires, some Michelin Pilot Sport 4, only began to show wear in the final stage of the test. .