2003 Ford Focus SE Wagon Reviews

I bought this car after my GTI because I needed the space to put my guitar stuff.  I broke my driver seat with my Rivera Knucklehead in my GTI and it was rusting so I traded it for the Focus.
Performance:  Good enough to get you from A to B.
Build quality:  I didn't need to fix anything, but it was cheapy cheapy build quality inside and outside.  It was only a matter of time before the "Found on Road Dead" kicked in.
Appearance:  Ugliest front-end of any car at the time, but I didn't mind the overall look.  It reminded me a little of a Volkswagen.  The interior cloth seats were the grey fuzz which is a trademark of most low-end Ford vehicles.
Cost of ownership:  Low.  It took regular gas, had a small 4 cylinder engine.
Fun Factor:  2/5.  Nothing like the old arm-strong windows!  I was happy that this car had AC, because my GTI didn't. The cool thing was all the gear I could put in it with the seats folded down.  It fit 2 4X12 guitar speaker cabinets, a mini-fridge bass cabinet, 3 electric guitars, assorted cable boxes, and a merchandise bin!  I even installed a hitch on it to pull a trailor for when Cassidy was going on tour!  Good thing we didn't go through with it, because we probably would have died off a cliff when the brakes were to fail on the Coquahalla freeway in B.C.  When I sold this car it was absolutely spotless, it didn't have a single scratch on it!

car has 176,000 miles, runs like new, Preventive maintenance helps A LOT
the car we own has a stick-shift transmission, the clutch was gone after 150k miles and basically thats the only major repair we have done to it.