Jeremy Clarkson is driving Ford Focus MK1. old top gear
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- Опубліковано 5 гру 2017
- The Ford Focus (first generation) is a compact car that was manufactured by Ford in Europe from 1998 to 2004 and by Ford in North America from 1999 to 2007. The original Focus took its eventual name from a Ghia concept car which was shown at the Geneva Motor Show in 1991. Engineers for the Focus, including Richard Parry-Jones, developed a class-leading, space-saving independent multi-link rear suspension, marketed as Control Blade suspension, combining the packaging of a trailing arm, with the geometry of a double wishbone suspension. Gasoline engines available were the well-proven 1.8 L and 2.0 L Zetec-R units from the Ford Mondeo and 1.4 L and 1.6 L versions of the Zetec-S/SE units, also found in the Ford Fiesta and Ford Puma. The ST170 and RS performance models used modified versions of the 2.0 L Zetec-R. Originally, the only diesel engine available was the Endura TDDI (a development of the old Deutz-designed motor which Ford had been using since the 1980s). This was replaced in 2002 by the Duratorq TDCI.
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Still drive a Mk1 focus now cracking cars!
@Jake Haynes mine has done 160000 miles it's got some rust now though :( the 2.0 is still going 💪.
Me too!!
I have a mk1 2004, great cat, it has 64,000 miles on the clock probably not amazing mileage but still has a long way to go to catch up to my old car that had 130,000.
Focus Mk I, from Austria, 332k kilometers, some minor rust, built in 2001 and still going!
He was right. I owned a MK1 1.6 focus and it never ever let me down. Most dependable car I have ever owned. And even today's standards, it's still reigns one of the best handling cars ever made.
@RadovanZunja69 Agre. Nice handling age îs nice great motor and great car Even în 2021. The Best seling Mk1 from 2000
I am still driving a mk1 1.6 hatchback. Used to belong to my parents, who got it 2nd hand in 2005😅. I've been driving it since mid-2016. It's done over 108000 kilometers since we got it in 2005 (they zeroed the odometer when we bought it🙈, but we believe it had approximately 20000 kilometers on the clock before that). It has hardly given any issues considering some of what it's been through. Built like a tank. And engine parts are easy(ish) to find, since the Zetec SE 1.6 is still produced
@@theborg5981 I bought a 1.6 Ghia when it was 9 years old with 42,000 miles on the clock. It was like a brand new car and I soon realised what the fuss was all about.
1.6L 16 valve? or 8 valve?
Absolutely legendary car
Jake Haynes same.. German car snob. Got one for £500. Loving it and the mk1 focus was built in Germany anyway!
@@conorf8091 I'm never sure how to describe Fords. Take this Focus for example, it's an American brand of course, it was engineered (I think) in Germany, and was designed by a British guy (Richard Parry Jones he's called). I can never call Ford exclusively American, German or British regardless of its strong connections to the three.
Yep, though the rust is horrible
@@petere8175. I had one mk1 breack from 203 1.6 16v petrol full version and dedand hawe problems whit rust. Just oil, filters tires and distribuțion. One of The Best car în The world
One of the greatest cars in the last 25 years for sure. It’s got to be up there.
I honestly have to hand it to you not only was it the best selling car. Its aged well making it also a runner up for second hand car markets. And its also in the top 20 modern classics.
Mk1 year 2000 The Best seling car of the year. Go Ford.
what other cars are in the top 20 modern classics you reckon?
Agree
I bought a 1998 2.0 zetec Focus 3 door in silver in 2001; it was an INCREDIBLE car, light years ahead of anything else on the market. When I sold it, I cried and I didn’t even cry when my hamster died when I was ten.
P×ss off.
22 years later she still drives like new❤️
I have this silver Focus of 2001 Ghia version.
I love this car.
Happy 2020 from Italy.
My car Is Legend!!!!! 😍😍😍
I've had two diesels and three petrols over the years, and it's at its best as a bog standard 1.6 Zetec, IMO. In this trim, it's hard to overstate just how good these cars are. Brilliant handling and ride, lively, smooth and economical engine, great steering, practical, reliable, comfortable, quiet, well put together, and dirt cheap to maintain. Just the usual Ford rust issues as they age. If you get in a mk4 Golf after driving one of these, it feels like something out of the ark, dynamically.
My second car was a 2003 focus and I kept it for 15 years. Absolute brilliant car!
Best version much better than the new version
Recently bought an 02 plate with 48000 miles on it, best car ive owned considering how cheap it was.
My first car was a secondhand '02 Focus. Drove it for eight years and loved every minute of it.
I drive a mk1 focus today- barely 100k miles on it and I adore her. Some small transmission issues but nothing significant considering she’s 20 years okd
My 20yr-old 1.8 3-door Focus will soon be off to the scrappie. Despite having no mechanical issues (apart from a slightly worn track rod end and an ailing fuel pump) - it's only done 69,000 miles. But now the underbody corrosion makes it an 'end of life' car. The front subframe looks a bit like Swiss cheese, and I hold my breath on bumpy corners, thinking that'll be the one on which the suspension collapses! But it's still the most FUN to drive. The handling is pin-sharp. The engine note reminds me of the old BDA engine. Popular rumour has it that the Mk1 was markedly over-engineered. I'll miss mine.
You should part it out
1st gen Focus much better looking more reliable and more clever than 2nd gen
Clever?
Best car I’ve ever driven, incredible to drive, I’ve even thrashed one round the Nordschleife for a weekend, and it was so much fun everyone wanted a go in it!
I'm still driving one. It's almost 20 years old and coming up to 160,000 km now
I really like my Ford Focus❤❤❤
my parents had a mk1 focus since 2003 until 2016 I grew up in that car
I still drive one to this day and and had 3 in total great cars.
Mines 18 years old with 72,000 miles and drives like new still
which is your fav engine size
Yup this was my first car 1.6 zetec and it was amazing , so good around corners.
I just brought an 02 plate focus ghia with 83k on the clock for 500 pounds and after a month it's most fun car to drive the 1.6 engine is terrific!!!
Good to know! I was going to get another Golf but for the money a nice mk1 focus seems like such a good idea. Cheap parts is also a bonus !
I have the focus mk1 to this day and i love it!
Still have my 2001 2.0L estate. Love it to bits :) drinks a bit, and fighting off rust is a constant battle but its still a joy to drive
I have a 2008 4 door sedan focus mk1.5 with the 2.0 duratec petrol engine (ford argentina version) incredible car, fun to drive, confortable, a timeless desing, one of my favourite cars of all time
I had 3, that's just how good it is. Hardly see them on the road anymore.
I’m glad i bought this as my first car
It was an absolutely revolutionary car at the time, I still remember seeing one for the first time and loved it! This was Ford’s hey day in the late 90’s / early 2000’s, loved the Focus, KA, Mondeo... Shame what’s happened to it now. The design and build and materials, everything just appalling. The dealers look dated, everything just downhill. Bring back the Ford of the late 90’s
I’ve driven one for the past 3 years and I love them so much I’m replacing it with another soon!
Replace with a new one?
@@jahdroy9595 I don’t do new cars 😂 I bought a slightly newer MK1 Focus
Miss my 1.6 Zetec. So fun to drive.
Still have a 2005 Duratec 4-door saloon. Great car, indeed!
My favorite car of all time
My rusty -03 estate soldiers on! Swedish winters are not kind to the metal but the 1.6 zetec is virtually indestructible if you maintain it.
Great cars. The brother had a 99, 5door 1.4 Lx with extras and it was faultless spacious and lovely to go for a drive in. He got it up to 94mph on the motorway one day. The quality of the dash could have been better but that was it really. It still looks fresh and modern and makes even some of today's new cars look old.
my mother had a 2003 focus and it was and still is my favourite car
Brilliant cars
I have a 2001 zx3 with 86k original miles. Made the mistake of selling it but got incredibly lucky and found it again on marketplace! Learned my lesson and will never sell this car! Even if i lost my job, you'd catch me sleeping in my focus lol. Such a fun and quick little car.
Pretty car!
reckoned by some to be the greatest car ever made
Still, if anyone ask me about a good choice for a second car, i say get a Zetec mk1 Focus.
Jeremy clarkson has got so much talent for making interesting and good car "reviews", he even makes car reviews very much fun to watch! The filming has also been done prefectly, the presenting is funny. That's what is all makes nice to watch. Especially if you comapre his style of presenting to all the other presenters of old Top Gear!!!!
Because he loves cars .with a passion.
I’m happy this was my first car, extremely reliable and it handles great. I’ll even keep it after getting another car because it’s just so damn reliable/good on gas.
I own 2 mk1 focus cars, even today they look so much more stylish than most of the new bulky bland cars out there. I reacon ford should put the mk1 focus back into production again, get rid of those crapped mk2, 3 and 4 focuses because the mk1 is in a different league. It also feels like a brand new car on the road if not better! The mk1 is like a one hit wonder song, whatever follows will never be as good.
I have a couple as well. I wasn’t impressed with any later models except petrol turbos. Plan to stay in mine for as long as possible. Parts quality is getting hit and miss so used parts from scrap cars are looking good sometimes.
I just wanted to look up what people thought of the car I drive and.... This brought a tear to my eye.
Look fior the motorcraft ad where the mk1 is at the scrap yard but gets serviced instead🥲
I just purchased one identical to the one Jeremy is driving mines the Ghia Model and yes they handle amazing is a real fun car
I used to have it. Very riliable car and robust. The 1.6 100 HP was 👌.
Bought a Focus '08 in 2012, needed a new clutch and it ran perfectly for 5 years. Bought a new Focus st. car 2017 last summer, 1.0 Ecoboost / 125PS. Fantastic car both in the city and on the highway, and the mileage is great. In 2. gear in the city, making a quick overtake is not a problem. And while doing 145 Km/h on the highway, you can still have a quite converstation with the passengers in the back. And the handling in turns on smaller roads is superb.
Shame they ditched the independent suspension on the lower spec models today. Same with the competition!
My work car is a MK1 with 320k miles. Driven 1500 miles a week. Only thing I have to worry about is tires and a monthly oil change.
1500 miles a week!! How and why do you manage that?
@@person.X. I’m a contract delivery driver. And 7 days a week on call for expedited deliveries to mills and such.
@@walt436 I can see how that would add up. I am impressed that you have managed to squeeze that much mileage out of the MK1.
@@person.X. It's at 332k miles now. Only major thing done was an engine mount replacement at/around 225k. I trust this car more than my F150 with 170k miles.
i bought my 02 1.6 6 months ago it leaks oil the suspension is shot it backfires due to that being completely shot but i love it for a car i thought had 6 weeks left of life left its still going strong and is soon to get some much needed maintaince as its at almost 140k and being heavily abused by it previous owner it most definitely deserves it. It also taught me that i didnt need a new car after all old tired shitboxes live forever :)
i love it!!!!!!
Rollin in 2020
I've got a Mk2, cracking car. Nice to drive and considering I only paid £490 for it it's proved to be very dependable
Ford really pulled it out the bag back then, not seen such a gap in car progression since.
I currently own a 2003 ford focus SVT that I use as a racecar and I have to say it's stupid strong. The 6 speed LSD is amazing beyond the longer than I think it needs gears. The steering is near perfect it still has AC that works but I probably won't leave it in. I stripped the rear interior and it took me all of about 2 hours. Parts are everywhere for it and there not too hard to work on either.
This vid makes me regret mistreating my 02 focus
there's a 1998 ford focus just down the street that's still running to this day
The back of a focus mark 1 looks like a cheeky grin.
and that's just the base model, you can get a Ghia with 2.0 16v Zetec engine
Lol, Thats my daily, great car and super fun
@@malcolmgray.5913Idk but mine is ridiculously fast. I can beat most modern cars all day.
Mk1 for life🔥
I've a Mk2 that I paid £490 for in October 2018 and love it
Obra maestra que no se volverán a fabricar coches así para toda la vida
Most MK1 focus came with 2.0L and Sedan, Hatchback and Wagon in North America
Ford was focusing hard to make this a good car
I have had 2 mk 1 silver Ford focus's in the last 14 years. They are great cars to drive and own. I don't know what car to buy to replace it. The mk 2 is a terrible backward design. The latest focus doesn't have independent rear suspension on the lower end models.
I owned an 04 plate Focus tdci edge. I bought it at a year old and covered 120k miles in 4 years. It was a good reliable car but it felt tired when I got rid of it.
The focus did in Europe what the taurus did in America. It set a new standard of vehicles in their respective segments for the next decade.
Although, the competition is quick to catch on and I have always found the interiors of the competitors to be superior to this one. Their plastics are soft and gentle whereas in the focus, the plastics are cheap and brittle. It's also got a common fatal engine failure flaw around 80k miles. We've had a few of these, mostly in sedan version, and the experience has always been the same. We, then, moved onto camrys from the same time period and the interiors were much nicer. Heck,even kias from 2003 had a nicer interior and a more comfortable ride.
TV image quality was much better back then than this video would suggest.
look at that quality
My 2002 boot release stopped working
Currently driving a diesel estate as a runabout until I buy a new car like a mercedes but for only costing 100 quid it's only done 79k miles and drives really well.
Would you sell it?
@@alexbaldwin1267 wasn't thinking of but was put up for sale yesterday for £450 and sold in a few hours 😂. Now running my previous car.
@@Lewis_Treff97 haha that's good. What colour was it btw?
@@alexbaldwin1267 like a dark British racing green
Just fixed a damaged PSE hose and broken radiator on one of these! In 180K it's also needed a Alternator and a vac hose. That's it!
Someone please help, which website can i order parts for this vehicle?
Ebay or Amazon
I had one of those for my first car! 2003 sedan with the manual, and the little 2.0L split port. I got it in 2017 for $600 at 223k thousand miles! That thing was built tough and I loved it.
What is the song at 3:20?
99 Luftballons-Nena?
Darude - sandstorm
Zx3 is the best and the one that worth it period.
Does anyone know the song at 0:43?
'Road Rage' by Catatonia, from the (approx 1998) album 'International Velvet'. Brilliant album if you ask me. I have both it, & a 1999 1.6 Focus which I have owned from new. I'm the epitome of one careful lady owner!
"I FIT!"
the CAR
When ford wants to they can make a ground breaking world class vehicle, but that doesn't normally happen until their backs are against the wall.
still quite a few around although mostly the facelift ones
@@teatimetel174 yeah still still a few around but again mostly facelift ones mostly zetec spec
I own one runs on fumes I'm sure it don't need fuel
So true. 😁👍
I have two focus MK1 2.0i and they are the best. Shame for the rustdevil though.
A sad end to a beautiful car. The ford active is next and the future looks bleak
Sad end?
Ford In North America got rid of Sedan's and Hatchback
I had a 2002 1.8 Zetec and I found it very uncomfortable. Awful seat/seating position which caused me a lower back/leg ache. So much so that I remember just half hour in traffic I had to stop and get out I was in that much discomfort. Ironically the only other cars I have ever experienced this same pain were also Fords - a KA and a Fiesta.
I bet your good at party’s
@@georgepeg6167 Yep I am not good at party's because the MK1 Focus gives me leg ache
@@ash7990 why you here then
Sounds more like your back thats the issue, the mk1 focus is epic
Did you try changing the seat angle and height with the winder under the cushion?
An old car but considering what was in the market at the time it was launched, it whet the appetite of consumers. Not only did it look a cut above the competition, it pretty much was in most aspects.
It was a popular car and each iteration of it slowly became boring until its final version now in 2023.
Gone were the sharp design cues and making a car stand out. Instead it became mundane and bloated.
Ford certainly needs to throw out the U.S-centric design language and make a car that will set the bar for affordable cars.
But profit margins are tight and the Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo have and will soon to be left for dead in place of....well, overbloated and expensive electric SUVs.
The days of fun, nimble and fast handling small cars is gone. But then again, on todays roads, where are you going to enjoy driving in any car really?
And then...the Golf 😃
Built in Spain they can't fit body panels properly shit car's
Built in Spain they can't fit body panels properly shit car's