• Always wanted one and IIRC back then Ford owned Jaguar and one of the Jag estate of the time had 4WD and shared the same chassis/platform as the focus estate (or was it that of the Mondeo?).

    In any case, nice car, decent price and I agree with the other comments, selling a car without MOT is a ballache.

    From wiki:

    In testing the suspension in 2000, Motor Trend writer Jack Keebler noted "The Focus' average speed of 62.6 mph through our slalom makes it faster around the cones than a $62,000 Jaguar XJ8L and a $300,000 Bentley Continental. The impression is of having plenty of wheel travel for gobbling the larger stuff and big-car, full-frame isolation when encountering expansion joints and smaller road imperfections

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