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[Varche]

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?

[the alarming man]

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

[Martin_1962]

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

[Varche]

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

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!)

[Martin_1962]

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

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

[Kevin Wood]

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

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.

[Martin_1962]

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

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.

My last 6 cars are/were RWD

[sierrapaul]

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

[henryd]

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

[russ0205]

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,
 :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

[Nick W]

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

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.

[henryd]

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

[Shimmy]

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.