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5 out of 5 stars

Beats the Civic in quality, value, handling period

Alan Kru, 02/17/2017
2008 Ford Focus SE 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 2 people found this review helpful

Buy the '08 focus over the same year Civic, save money and drive happier!!

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5 out of 5 stars

Love the car

Charlie, 11/12/2007
2008 Ford Focus SE 2dr Coupe (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 2 people found this review helpful

The Ford Focus is a wonderful car. For the money it has better features than the Corolla. I like the Focus' interior. The exterior is something I love. I'm very enamored with this car.

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2 out of 5 stars

Bad purchase!!!!!

Redd052, 03/23/2023
updated 09/25/2023
2008 Ford Focus SE 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 4 people found this review helpful

#1. Wheel bearing bad. #2. Oil on spark plugs #3 needed brakes done. Will cost a lot to fix.

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2 out of 5 stars
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3.25 out of 5 stars

It WAS ok until...

beckyk, 07/02/2009
2008 Ford Focus SE 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 4 people found this review helpful

I've had this car for a year and a half now and was mostly pleased with it until I had to take it in for a tire rotation only to find out that the suspension/alignment is TERRIBLE on most ford focus's. With only 30,000 miles on my tires I was forced to buy all new ones. So I was not pleased with that. Only a year left on my lease and will definitely be trading this in, probably for something other than ford, unfortunately...

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2.63 out of 5 stars

I hate this car

dieguito06, 07/22/2011
2008 Ford Focus S 2dr Coupe (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
4 of 33 people found this review helpful

The only reason I bought this car was because I lost the 2005 Impala in a crash & I needed A car in a hurry.A week into the car the carpet on the pasengers side started to came off ,every time I would fix it it would come right off ,then a year later the passenger door wooden open I used the warranty & had it fix two years later the same door the same problem but this time my warrranty was out so I had to pay $200 to get it fix. now the other door is having the same problem.another thing wrong with this car is the sway bars I had to replace them too

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