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I drive various cars at work including the Focus.
They're common for excellent reasons:
1. It's a Ford - cheap to buy & cheap to run.
2. The performance & handling are good within their class. I.E. comparing like engine sizes / vehicle sizes from competing manufacturers.
3. It's common & a "world car". - Every garage in the world is familiar with them and can get parts no problem
4. It's reliable. Remember that reliability isn't just how often it needs fixed, it's also how long and how much to fix it. Again the very common-ness of the car helps, like I said earlier just about every garage in the western world has a customer with a Focus... There's little mystery to them.
On the downside, the performance, handling and fuel economy is largely a result of weight being pared off the vehicle and my own preference for private / family motoring is something bigger & heavier & more solid. Hence more crash-worthy. Say a Landrover or Jeep.
Mike.
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