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In the last issue, it was said that the excellent product power of the first generation Focus achieved a brilliant start in the flowering of both culture and sports, and this issue of Elephant ELV continues to share with you the story of the second generation of Focus that everyone is most familiar with.
2nd Generation Focus.
At the end of 2004, the second-generation Focus with the chassis code 307 was officially unveiled at the Paris Motor Show, but in fact, as early as half a year ago at the Beijing Motor Show, the second-generation Focus appeared in the form of a highly completed feeling car, and it was the world premiere. This marks the official upgrade of the Beijing Auto Show from a regional exhibition to an international exhibition, and since then, more and more new models have chosen to debut at the Beijing Auto Show. A year later, Changan Ford quickly promoted the domestic production of Focus, which should be the most familiar generation of Focus, or directly call its Chinese name "Focus".
This generation of focus is a more generation, the form is still a three-door hatchback, five-door hatchback and travel version, in the body size has also fallen into a longer and larger circle, the width of 1840 mm is even called the most stylish body in the same class at that time, but the actual sitting in is not as large as imagined, it seems that the Europeans have also learned the essence of the American car reverse space master. In terms of design, because the original Focus was so successful that the changed Focus did not dare to make any out-of-the-ordinary changes, but only converged some curves, so it is conceivable that the appearance of the second-generation Focus was scolded, and this situation was not alleviated until the 2008 facelift.
The second-generation Focus has undergone a facelift, with Ford's latest family design language, Kinetic-Design, featuring an inverted trapezoidal lower grille at the front and fog lamp areas on both sides, perhaps compared to 2004. This generation of Focus is still a two-world model, in addition to Ford's hometown of the beautiful country, I don't know what the beautiful people think and did not follow the European generation, until 2007 with the first generation of C170 chassis to replace a strange appearance similar to a certain car of Kia, as the second generation of Focus and continue to sell, can only say that the beautiful country has its own national conditions.
In China, from 2005 by Changan Ford domestic Focus officially listed, people suddenly found that the original American car can be so cool, hatchback looks not so ugly, for a time the second generation of Focus has become the dream car of countless young people, and even after the third generation of Focus was listed, the second generation Focus was renamed Classic Focus and continued to sell for a period of time, and there are many car sources in the second-hand car market. In addition, if you still want to buy a second-generation Focus now, it is essential to find a reliable car repair master, there is a saying among the people, how to get familiar with a car repair shop master as soon as possible, every other month to find a car repair master to change the air conditioning filter, at most half a year can be with the master in the physical sense of the one.
Getting back to business, the biggest change from the second-generation Focus is the replacement of Ford's latest, Ford, Volvo, Mazda three engineers jointly built C1 platform, and the same period of Volvo S40, Mazda3 is a half-brother, relying on the technology provided by this platform, further strengthened handling, with flexible, stable, with toughness of the excellent chassis mechanical quality.
In terms of performance models, the second-generation Focus is still a combination of RS and ST, all equipped with five-cylinder engines from Volvo, but there are differences in power tuning according to different models, and a small number of them have been introduced in China. Of course, if you feel that these performances are not excellent, Ford also has a Focus RS500 limited to 500 units worldwide, which is the strongest state of the original factory.
This generation of Focus has been sold until 2011, and the sales volume is not as good as the first generation, but it is not because the Focus itself is not good enough, but competitors in the same period have also begun to make efforts, such as the fifth generation of Golf. But it is undeniable that this is indeed the most classic generation of Fox.
Third generation Focus.
In 2010, the third-generation Focus codenamed C346 was unveiled at the North American Auto Show, which was Ford returned from bankruptcy and remotely, and put forward the first blockbuster model launched after the One Ford strategy, as mentioned earlier, at the end of the last century, Ford 2000 planned to build a global development and global sales model, but in less than 10 years after that, the plan was implemented in a mess, and the beautiful country, Europe, and Kangaroo country seem to have a Ford each, and the products are completely different, which greatly increases the operating costs of the Ford brand, It even pulled the whole company into the water. Ford's solution was to sell unprofitable brands such as Aston Martin and Land Rover and return to one Ford, while pooling global resources to build a handful of models that could be sold to global consumers. The third-generation Focus came into being, and it was launched simultaneously in China, the United States, and Europe, in other words, the same Focus was sold in all regions of the world.
But from the perspective of the market, this is definitely a dangerous behavior, whether it is Audi, Volkswagen, Logo, Opel, or the Japanese Misanya (Toyota, Honda, Nissan) This level of competing models has been updated to a state of near-perfection. So this generation of Focus has a larger interior space, a more advanced texture, and stronger technology. From today's aesthetic point of view, the early version of the third-generation Focus is stunning, while retaining most of the design elements of the previous model, the overall has become more refined, especially the swooping waistline when viewed from the side, and the other lines of the body are shrunk to the rear of the car through the taillights, which looks like the urge to go up and take a picture.
In 2014, the third-generation Focus ushered in a facelift, and the next Elephant ELV will continue to share with you the follow-up story of the Focus.