484 + km on a full tank

484 km on a full tank on a 2008 ford focus with something duratec, i.e. not known for fuel economy.

Note that it's strictly city driving, on a highway I'll make 600 km and maybe even more - eat this, Elon!


Avtozilla: 484 km on a full tank: 484 km on a full tank on a 2008 ford focus with something duratec, i.e. not known for fuel economy. Note that it's strictly city dr...

Ford Focus

Ford Focus 2 Re-Style 2008 Euro, 1.6l MT.

Side view - a good view in my opinion. Also, a 3 door! - a three-door hatch. The door is massive. And 3 door is no more either.

A 3/4 view from above, also good.

Tail lamps almost on the roof... which is a good thing if you drive like me, i.e. reversing occasionally into fences or someone catches up with you at an intersection -- they stay intact, even if the bumper + rear door don't. 

Front. Sometimes it seems not to be the best part.

Accoutrements. 

Essentially a base version but with separately ordered: a Sony radio CD player with a 6CD changer and 6 speakers, a winter package - heated front and rear windows, heated rear view mirrors, heated seats as well and a 220V electrical outlet on back of central armrest (never used it).

AChS-1 Board Clock on Dashboard

Last summer I made some pics of my AChS-1V aviation clock that I keep at my country log cabin. As a backdrop I used the dashboard of my 2008 Second Gen Ford Focus II face-lifted (European).

I thought it looked good in that setting. The idea crossed my mind of how interesting it would be to install it in or on the dash kind of permanently.

Turns out I am far from the first who has ever had that idea.

A week back I was watching on Youtube a 1972 Russian film Gonshchiki (Rally Racers) featuring rally driving in the Moskvich 412 one of my favorite cars, like this one (Internet pictures).

Interior

 

Nice interiors! Check out the bordello-red (vinyl -- no animals were harmed etc.) seats and upholstery, nicely combined with the black dashboard & central stack.

And in some of the rally cars shown in the film, they definitely had an early version of AChS-1 installed on the dashboard in the center.

Here is the film but it's in Russian and no English subtitles. Good film.