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Varche Omega Baron Offline Posts: 3860 Andalucia, Spain Gender: Drives: 97 pre mini facelift 3 litre auto RHD Elite saloon and a 2000 Ford Ka !	That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV 27. Apr 2011 at 19:39 What is the special device that ensures traction goes to both front wheels? Mechanical LSD? Electrickery? How do you avoid having fingers ripped off when the car auto parks? Is the proximity braking a gimmick, safety hazard or a good idea?
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the alarming man Senior Member Offline Posts: 783 medway kent Gender: Drives: 03 2.2 C.D	Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV Reply #1 - 27. Apr 2011 at 20:24 well i have only played with an auto park skoda and when you want to find a place to park you do have to push a button and it bleeps at you when it finds a space big enough and all you touch is brakes and accelerator
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Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV
Reply #2 - 28. Apr 2011 at 11:12

Varche wrote on 27. Apr 2011 at 19:39:

What is the special device that ensures traction goes to both front wheels? Mechanical LSD? Electrickery?

How do you avoid having fingers ripped off when the car auto parks?

Is the proximity braking a gimmick, safety hazard or a good idea?

Room for massive improvement there, try the other end Grin

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Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV
Reply #3 - 28. Apr 2011 at 11:32

Martin Imber wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:12:

Varche wrote on 27. Apr 2011 at 19:39:

What is the special device that ensures traction goes to both front wheels? Mechanical LSD? Electrickery?

How do you avoid having fingers ripped off when the car auto parks?

Is the proximity braking a gimmick, safety hazard or a good idea?

Room for massive improvement there, try the other end Grin

It has front wheel drive. Found this on Ford website
Torque Vectoring Control
Torque Vectoring Control reacts to the road 100 times per second. The system then uses this information to repeatedly balance the amount of power between the two front wheels. Fitted as standard, this technology maximises grip and increases the dynamic capabilities of the new Focus, while helping you gracefully negotiate curves and undulations in the road.

So it is electrickery !

http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Focus/Technicalhighlights ; Impressive stuff (for a front wheel drive car!)

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Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV
Reply #4 - 28. Apr 2011 at 11:42

Varche wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:32:

Martin Imber wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:12:

Varche wrote on 27. Apr 2011 at 19:39:

What is the special device that ensures traction goes to both front wheels? Mechanical LSD? Electrickery?

How do you avoid having fingers ripped off when the car auto parks?

Is the proximity braking a gimmick, safety hazard or a good idea?

Room for massive improvement there, try the other end Grin

It has front wheel drive. Found this on Ford website
Torque Vectoring Control
Torque Vectoring Control reacts to the road 100 times per second. The system then uses this information to repeatedly balance the amount of power between the two front wheels. Fitted as standard, this technology maximises grip and increases the dynamic capabilities of the new Focus, while helping you gracefully negotiate curves and undulations in the road.

So it is electrickery !

http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Focus/Technicalhighlights Impressive stuff (for a front wheel drive car!)

Had a look basically brake controlled traction control

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Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV
Reply #5 - 28. Apr 2011 at 11:50

Martin Imber wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:42:

Varche wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:32:

Martin Imber wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:12:

Varche wrote on 27. Apr 2011 at 19:39:

What is the special device that ensures traction goes to both front wheels? Mechanical LSD? Electrickery?

How do you avoid having fingers ripped off when the car auto parks?

Is the proximity braking a gimmick, safety hazard or a good idea?

Room for massive improvement there, try the other end Grin

It has front wheel drive. Found this on Ford website
Torque Vectoring Control
Torque Vectoring Control reacts to the road 100 times per second. The system then uses this information to repeatedly balance the amount of power between the two front wheels. Fitted as standard, this technology maximises grip and increases the dynamic capabilities of the new Focus, while helping you gracefully negotiate curves and undulations in the road.

So it is electrickery !

http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Focus/Technicalhighlights Impressive stuff (for a front wheel drive car!)

Had a look basically brake controlled traction control

Yep, sounds no better than any other traction control system. If they wanted to "maximise grip" instead of building the cheapest, nastiest shopping car they could, they'd have driven the back wheels. Grin

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Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV
Reply #6 - 28. Apr 2011 at 11:59

Kevin Wood wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:50:

Martin Imber wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:42:

Varche wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:32:

Martin Imber wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 11:12:

Varche wrote on 27. Apr 2011 at 19:39:

What is the special device that ensures traction goes to both front wheels? Mechanical LSD? Electrickery?

How do you avoid having fingers ripped off when the car auto parks?

Is the proximity braking a gimmick, safety hazard or a good idea?

Room for massive improvement there, try the other end Grin

It has front wheel drive. Found this on Ford website
Torque Vectoring Control
Torque Vectoring Control reacts to the road 100 times per second. The system then uses this information to repeatedly balance the amount of power between the two front wheels. Fitted as standard, this technology maximises grip and increases the dynamic capabilities of the new Focus, while helping you gracefully negotiate curves and undulations in the road.

So it is electrickery !

http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Focus/Technicalhighlights Impressive stuff (for a front wheel drive car!)

Had a look basically brake controlled traction control

Yep, sounds no better than any other traction control system. If they wanted to "maximise grip" instead of building the cheapest, nastiest shopping car they could, they'd have driven the back wheels. Grin

My last 6 cars are/were RWD Grin

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sierrapaul Junior Member Offline Posts: 123 Drives: elite v6	Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV Reply #7 - 28. Apr 2011 at 14:40 its just more crap to go wrong a few years down the road.where if it does go wrong you have to take it to the stealers to sort.theres to much of this sort of stuff on cars now and makes peoples driveing worse.i think they should make new drivers go out in the wet in a 3 litre capri.paul
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Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV
Reply #8 - 28. Apr 2011 at 18:25

sierrapaul wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 14:40:

its just more crap to go wrong a few years down the road.where if it does go wrong you have to take it to the stealers to sort.theres to much of this sort of stuff on cars now and makes peoples driveing worse.i think they should make new drivers go out in the wet in a 3 litre capri.paul

Capri !!!, had a 2.8 injection many years ago for a short time,talk about steer from
The rear Cheesy

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russ0205 Senior Member Offline Posts: 526 Gender: Drives: 2.6v6 cdx 02,megan 04,scenic monaco 01,	Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV Reply #9 - 28. Apr 2011 at 19:32 swmbo had the park assist on our vw touran it was great but you had to have total confidence and do not touch the steering wheel,But remember you still use the accelerator brake and clutch,
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Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV
Reply #10 - 30. Apr 2011 at 16:58

henryd wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 18:25:

sierrapaul wrote on 28. Apr 2011 at 14:40:

its just more crap to go wrong a few years down the road.where if it does go wrong you have to take it to the stealers to sort.theres to much of this sort of stuff on cars now and makes peoples driveing worse.i think they should make new drivers go out in the wet in a 3 litre capri.paul

Capri !!!, had a 2.8 injection many years ago for a short time,talk about steer from
The rear Cheesy

In that case, it needed new suspension bushes in the springs(also in the front, but ALL Capris do). They are nowhere near as bad as most people make out. At least, none of the 11 I owned were!

Wish I still had the 2.0S, or my 2.8i Special with a tweaked 2.9.

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henryd Omega Baron Offline Posts: 2172 west cornwall Gender: Drives: Merc E220 estate,previous ride 2.5 elite estate	Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV Reply #11 - 30. Apr 2011 at 18:03 The one I owned briefly was great in the dry but a handfull when wet, probably down to shite tyres as it was a low milage three year old car at the time. A mate of mine has a Brooklyns 280 with a turbo technics conversion, that's pretty quick even by today's standards
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Shimmy Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 347 Middlesbrough Drives: '01 3.2 Elite	Re: That Ford (Focus?) advert on TV Reply #12 - 01. May 2011 at 19:51 They're all features that have been on other cars for a while now Volvo/Lexus/BMW etc.. Just becoming more mainstream now. Personally I think there are too many electrical gubbins appearing in cars in the last 5 years or so, so much that can go wrong now.
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