Couple of awards for the new Ford Focus

The new Ford Focus was launched in March; it has only been on the street for two months but has already been collecting awards. It was launched after the new Ford C-Max in Scotland. Last week at the Fleet World Honours it received the Safety Award and at the Diesel Car awards it won Best Diesel Medium Sized Car.

The Focus has been rewarded for its high level of standard and optional equipment which helps keep occupants and other road users safe. Fleet World Editor, Steve Moody, said: "Ford's new Focus is littered with safety aids that previously were only available on executive cars, ensuring that company car drivers will have their tiredness monitored, be warned of drifting out of lanes and never miss anything in their blind spot. On top of these systems, it comes with an automatic low-speed braking system, all for only £750, while standard items such as Bluetooth hands-free ensure this is one of the safest cars on the road today."

Diesel car tested the 1.6 and 2.0 litre Ford Focus TDCi models each of these are available in two power outputs. After the test the judges crowned it the best diesel medium-sized car on the market, quite an accolade.
Ian Robertson the Diesel Car editor, said: "The Ford Focus is quite simply the best handling, most dynamically accomplished car in its class - the one the others have to match. A new benchmark has been set for this size of car, because the bar has been raised by new Focus."

Jon Wellsman the Ford UK sales director, said: "This is a sizeable market for Ford, with 45 per cent of Focus cars bought being diesels... To receive independent endorsement from Diesel Car is recognition of the UK-based Ford engineers and manufacturing specialists producing these engines."