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Excellent work Tim, just love those videos.
I could go on for hours and hours and weeks about how friggin insanely fun my LR Focus is, how Ford is the new Peugeot and how Europeans have BY FAR the best taste in cars in the world. Europeans push the design boundaries, Europeans integrate the safety features, Europeans spend the money designing the best cars in the world time and time again. Europeans don't buy Corollas in their thousands because if they needed to chill their sauerkraut, bratwurst, camambert, tapas or pizza from the supermarket they'd buy a Westinghouse and put it in their kitchen and not one with a Toyota badge... They have the highest safety standards, they have the best fuel economy standards, they rule the world in motoring and there is barely anything anyone can do to remove that. No matter how hard Toyota tries, it will never understand the psyche of the European car buyer well enough (probably inverse to the Australian market where they seem to have a darn good idea unfortunately) and as long as I have a pulse, I will NEVER EVER be associated with anything that is pumped out of the oven by those boring boring people. Sure they can design the odd supercharged Camry. Any idiot with 50 bucks can make a matchbox car go faster... as a famous personality once said on channel 10 "I'm the whole package". It's about the entire package, not the reliability AND the speed as 2 strengths.
Volkswagen is guilty of building brilliant cars, that are dynamically sad but still highly safe, competent and hewn from rock. Vauxhall are just asleep most of the time, but kudos to them for trying anyway, they make a half decent attempt. I support a nationwide advertising push to show those short videos on TV a few times a week just to shake the status quo, throw the Toyota heads off their high-chairs and spill the baby-food on the floors. Renault are trying, Peugeot have lost it, everyone goes through phases, Ford is having a blinder at the moment in Europe in my opinion and Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo are all brilliant comapred to the competition. That a 6 year old car can crap all over multi-hundred million dollar new cars and still cop recommendations, and then that Ford can even gamble and STILL improve it whilst the others are still not up with the older model is testament to the engineering brilliance of these Ford cars!! The old Focus is not perfect and there are many features of the new models of the competition that totally shame the old Focus, I'll admit it to anyone. But that the old model received such a glowing review after the three major big models is nothing short of fantastic. Then watching the new review, the New Focus gets raved about as even better.
All I can say is at the end of the day I fully respect anyone's right to buy what they choose, I won't publicly disgrace anyone, but I won't ever understand how I could ever buy anything other than the best for my money as a driver's car. I love my Focus, I'm so far obsessed with my Focus it isn't funny, but it's such a fun, stylish, solid, beefy little car that I just can't help myself. I'm addicted. I'm a Focus enthusiast and videos like that make me want to open my balcony door, walk out, scream to Australia how good it is and then go to sleep counting Foci dodging witches hats. Long live the LR Focus and best of luck to the new model, especially in Australia!
The King is Dead. Long Live the King.