For the 2012 model year, the editors of The Car Connection had a tough decision to make. For their annual “Best Car to Buy” award, the online automotive publisher had 40 nominees to weed through in order to come to their conclusion. With a price cap set at $50,000, the contestants were judged upon their styling, performance, safety, utility and available features. Taking the cake for 2012 and beating some seriously tough competition is the newly redesigned Ford Focus.
“Even in a day where dull, droning econoboxes are the exception rather than the rule, the 2012 Focus grabs attention, both for the way it looks and for the way it handles. That’s held true for each of the more than half-dozen differently-equipped Focuses our editors have sampled,” said the editors of The Car Connection. Taking out other compacts like the new Hyundai Veloster and Chevrolet Sonic, the Focus also beat some much more premium vehicles such as the all-new Range Rover Evoque and Mercedes M-Class. It did so with a nice middle ground; blending economy, utility, driving pleasure and trick features into a inexpensive package.
Source: Ford & The Car Connection
