Used 2016 Ford Focus Consumer Reviews
Used Focus for sale
Dirt cheap electric car
jjpcat, 01/11/2017
updated 01/21/2020
2016 Ford Focus Electric 4dr Hatchback (electric DD)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Can't believe Ford was making this offer. The total 3-year-lease cost is just $4000 after government rebates. I returned the car to Ford at the end of the lease, instead of buying it. Pros: 1. Dirt cheap. It's so cheap that I can forgive most of the issues below. 2. Front seats are comfortable. 3. Good ride quality & handling balance. One of the best in this class. 4. Interior material quality is among the best in this class. Cons: 1. Rattle everywhere. And this happened even before the odometer hit 5k miles. I have owned a few cars above 100k miles and none of them rattled nearly as much. 2. Don't floor the pedal. The car won't move at all when you do that. This is a serious safety bug. 3. The roof drops very low around the A pillar. It severely impedes the outward view. Another safety issue. 4. Front armrest is pretty much useless due to its location. 5. Huge turn radius for its size. 6. GPS is mostly useless, as it's missing at least 95% of the POIs. It can't even locate Google, Cisco, or NVidia HQ. 7. Real time traffic is useless. It just displays the historical average.
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2016 Focus Lemon
tp962, 07/18/2017
2016 Ford Focus SE 4dr Hatchback (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Transmission is terrible. Shudders and jumps. Horrible at accelerating. Avoid the DCT at all costs. Road noise is loud. Blinker broke after 4 months.
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VROOM!
JO JO, 12/14/2021
2016 Ford Focus SE 4dr Hatchback (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
I've had this car for over a year. It's a GREAT little car. I've put at least 20K miles on it. Easy and inexpensive maintainance. Can't say enough good things about it.
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Radio problem
Paul, 08/21/2019
updated 02/22/2021
2016 Ford Focus S 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
I bought a 2016 ford focus brand new and like everyone else I had shifting problems. Got it fixed and runs great now. Around 60,000 miles my radio speakers started crackling, not all the time but a month later the radio quit working and won't even light up now. The thing is that I don't even listen to the radio that much ever and I never even used the CD player yet.
Curiously disappointed
John, 02/09/2018
updated 08/12/2019
2016 Ford Focus SE 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Brief review: Ford's support has been radically under par. Trying to get them to care about problems is a major uphill battle. I'm a very mechanical kind of guy, I do almost all my own car work on my cars. One perk to the new 2016 Focus was I'd have something with a warranty. I got a new house that I'm working on, and no room in the garage to work on cars, and my driveway is a mess. So I wanted something where they'd make it right if there were problems. They promised exactly that. They have not just failed to deliver by not really caring, they have fought me every step of the way on every issue. The car doesn't warm up during winter. If it's less than 20 degrees, I plan on getting 23, 24 mpg even though I drive basically all highway. Summer I get 33, 34 mpg. The motor never warming up causes the poor economy, and is also hard on the motor. Cars are not meant to run mile after mile well below their thermostat temp. Also there's a rattle in the front end. The driver's door was sticking, though they did eventually fix that after enough fighting. Because the automatics have a ton of problems, my Focus lost about 2/3rds of its value in the first year. Not a normal "you drive it off the lot, you lose thousands" thing, but a catastrophic, I'm-stuck-with-this-car-forever loss. Despite no longer wanting to drive it and Ford doing an abysmal job. All things considered, even though in summer I enjoy driving the car, it's got plenty of power for me and does a good job in most respects, I've gone from buying all Fords (around a dozen late-model Fords in my life time) to being absolutely certain I won't buy another one again. I'm not certain I can find a manufacturer that will actually stand behind their vehicle, but I know Ford won't, despite many, many hours of stress and explaining and dropping the car off and picking it up. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Ford won't fool me twice.
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