0 to 60 in 2 days

This is a lease of a brand new car.

Wondered how long it would be.....

0 to Zero deals posted in fours years on here, why bother ? :smirk:

I'm in the market for this exact car and this is the best price I have found. If you vote cold for any reason please be helpful and let me know where you've seen a better deal!

already posted, don't have any solid red left but metallic is discounted

Good deal

Word of warning from a Ford mechanic mate of mine. He wouldn't buy one of these heavily tuned tiny turbo engines. Under warranty they will repair but a second hand one is a mistake.

Great deal and didn't see the previous post so heat from me.

​It's apparently the most seen engine in the workshop for failures you tend to get at end of life on larger engined cars.

​True, so if you give it back at end of lease its not an issue. If however you decide to buy it out end of lease I'm just giving people a heads up. I love fords and have had many in the last 20 years. It's just these heavily tuned small engine turbo cars you need to be careful about. Personally I would go for a 1.4 petrol over one of these.

0 to 60 in 2 days

Nothing in your post adds up.. The numbers you've put come to £4319.76, not £4149.77 and you've put 9+23 and the price for 1+23.

Interested as I'm putting an order through for same company for the higher price at around £4230

You don't have the option to buy at the end of a lease. It's like hiring a car on holiday, you give it back (hopefully in good condition) and you forget all about it.

Most (All?) leases will give you the option of extending the lease or a price to buy the car

​All lease companies offer to sell you the car at the end. It's the most profitable way they can get rid of it at end of lease. I've driven leased vehicles for the last 10 years and they have all offered to sell the car to me at the end for a ridiculous price. I thrash cars I lease and would never buy one because I know exactly how it's been treated.

Had 4 lease cars in the family, and never been offered a purchase price. Have never asked mind you.

Cheers, same price I got then. Have just sent them my signed order :smiley:

Cracking deal.

nearly 4 and a half bags to rent a car??

What's not to like at this price!

I can't see a 1 + 23 anywhere?

​How is it irrelevant? Reliability of a loan lease hire or purchased car still impacts your use of the vehicle. Whether it's covered by warranty or not I'm sure you would rather be driving the car you are paying for...

I phoned up. The OP was edited from 9+23 after speaking with Elena at Fleet Prices.

That's a great price

Never happened to me and I have leased cars from Ford directly. My last one was already sold and on it's way to its new owner via BCA when they drove it off my drive. A lot of leases go in to the approved dealer network too and some are leased at a loss to facilitate the used stock.

Sure you aren't confusing this with PCP?

the best lease deal has been for golf r.

cold. found a better deal

​and you will only have it for 2 years .... let's talk about when it's 15 years old also when you won't own it ... lol

think it's total rubbish but irrelevant because you will have it for 2 years of the 3 year warranty pointless comment just to make it sound like you know a thing . .

​What for the focus? post it if you've found it

What for the focus? post it if you've found it

Unable to find any 1+23 profile online ? Is it available only on phone or am i missing something?

Yes it's over the phone

I went the other way. I treated the car with a little respect and purchased it knowing full well how it's been drove as I was happy with it. Actually saved around 2k from buying it new too.

0 to Zero deals posted in fours years on here, why bother ? :smirk:

Ive got a lease ending in three weeks and have not been offered a price to buy the car. Just the option to extend the lease for 6 or 12 months.

My mate dave recommended me to buy a Aston Martin instead of a Ford Focus. Probably as useful as your warning for a brand new lease isn't it?

I've driven a fiesta with this engine and it was genuinely fun in the city. Not sure about only 125bhp on a focus sized car though. I know it's turbo so the torque issue won't be a major problem, but these days 150bhp in this size car is the norm.

I have this car, performance is OK.

Back in the eighties XR3Is didn't have this power.

And yes I know cars are heavier, etc etc.

Always tells you a lot about a person by the way they treat lease/rental cars.

Usually extends to other areas of their lives.

What a stupid ill informed comment! The 1.0 EcoBoost is an incredibly well engineered engine matching reasonable performance with efficiency. While it may not be for everyone I've driven the Fiesta with the same power train and it's superb. By the way I'm currently driving a Mercedes C350E Sport which I suppose is in your view 0 to 60 in 3 days being a hybrid rather than 5.9s and 155mph (limited)!

I wouldn't call it incredibly well engineered engine:
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/user-article/111213/ford-focus-1-0
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FordEcoboostNightmare/

plastic tubes to deal with coolant what the heck.
The who point of a lease car is probably having to not deal with reliability issues and to have care free driving, looks like those engines fail anywhere at anytime, stranding you in the process.
Lots of poor quality engineering in the next, sounds like the engine is under a lot of pressure and using inferior parts to boot.
Seems those hoses are used across the range so if I had one I'd be replacing them out for proper hoses, utter crap they are making customers go through and as usual with warranty companies/dealers trying to see if the client will pay for it until they give in if at all. Shocking

Had many small engine cars mainly Japs and you rev the tits out of them, that's how you get the most out of them. This just seems retarded way to do things.

I've had a Focus Zetec 125 on lease for 2 years. Ended in 2015 and I ended up buying the car outright. I did sell it 6 months later for more money than my settlement fee.

The reason, seeing the 208 GTI Prestige on here. Had it on an 18 month lease which expires in 3 weeks hence looking for something else. The 208 GTI is a horrible car, so now I'm looking for something else.

...and it's back to a Focus 125, only this time I can get a Titanium for less than I was paying for a Zetec 2-4 years ago.

The engine is superb and this is a whole lotta car for the price. Ford can't get anywhere near this price on a Titanium and they told me they don't know how FP are doing it when I went for a test drive yesterday.

The total rental is less than the depreciation, according to Ford themselves.

FP say this price won't be achievable after 31st March.

Out of curiosity what happens when you give the car back and it has scratches or scuffs on the bumpers? I would love to lease but People seem to target my cars in car parks and at the school etc?

Stop gatekeeping. No one makes a comment on a poster's deal posting dick size when it's a positive comment

How quickly is delivery on these?

a bone is an American term for a dollar, so no he doesn't mean "4 and a half bones"

They are in stock

Well, you better not want to buy a fast car ever again. Emissions regs make this the only way to go for fast, cheap cars.

Personally, I've had 3 cars in a row with 1.4 turbos - none of them have had any problems with the engine or turbo.

You're allowed "reasonable wear and tear". Anything more than that and you'll have to get it repaired before handing back, or pay for the dealer to rectify them.

Most contracts specifically state what's reasonable to avoid arguments at the end.

You've obviously never even leased a car as 99% of the time they offer the option to purchase the car once the lease expires.

Has anyone here used Fleet Prices before? I can't seem to find many reviews online for them.

ALL contracts state by Law what is reasonable. They have to follow
http://www.drive-electric.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Fair_Wear_Tear.pdf
bvrla guide

"This has been a known fault for ages. We've all known about it (we being AA patrols). Allegedly, you've 30 secs to a minute from when the pipe breaks to switch the engine off or its bye bye cylinder head. I've been to a focus, prior to being recalled and the pope just fell to pieces as I touched it. Just crumbled. I and the the owners were amazed." - my friends an AA mechanic.

Genuine question about leasing...

What's the difference between an online lease like this deal, compared with PCP through a dealership.

The dealerships I've spoken to offer PCP with the same limited mileage but if you go over the mileage it's not an issue as long as you're taking out another contract on another vehicle. It's only if you hand the vehicle back and you've done excess miles that you'd pay the pence per mile charge.

You'll also have a bit of a deposit on the next contract.

'Bags of sand' = grand. 4 and a half bags = 4 and a half grand = £4,500

PCP always offer option to buy at end of lease usually with price stated upfront

PCH - which this deal is an example of - often don't offer the ability to purchase at the end this is because of Tax implications stated by HMRC they are not allowed to sell you the car at the end.
Some lease companies will give you a settlement figure and you can sell to a thrid party - not same name and address - so you can sell and transfer back to a mate.
Others such wont offer a purchase price at all.
Third - of which I have no experience I believe some lease companies have a way around this - they internally transfer the vehicle to one of their group companies and then as it is a different owner they can sell you the car.

At 125bhp the 0-60 is 11s, if you want facts rather than just making it up.

This isn't a 1.4 turbo it's a 1.0 and it's highly tuned to get the bhp out of it

ok ok. 4 and a half thousand bones.

I don't class a 125 bhp fiesta as a fast car. Personally I wouldn't buy anything less than 170 bhp these days. Not bothered about tax and emissions. And insurance isn't an issue for me.

And the troll has to get personal. I wanted to provide some information which had been given to me from a Ford service mechanic of 20 years. I wouldnt buy lease or borrow a fiesta these days. But if I was forced to I wouldn't pick this engine choice. With the new vehicle road fund licence having tiny engined cars doesn't give you the same benefit anymore as low emissions vehicles are now from April more expensive. I'd go for the most power I could get up to the new minimum.

Fair play. If I was going to lease personally I probably would too. However I do about 35k a year in work miles and would never contemplate buying my ex company car. So I drive it in the way I would have driven my cars in my youth. It puts a smile on my face and I enjoy myself. Knowing I don't pay for tires, insurance, service, mot, repairs, etc etc. A proper car is meant to be driven. If I had to do 35k miles a year in a fiesta I would die inside..

To summarise, to get the deal in the OP do I have to call the company and ask? Will I be offered it or is it based on any conditions?

Ring them, quote this thread, they are aware of HUKD

But but but you'll be going back to a car that can only do 0-60 in 2 days according to the 'likers' on here :stuck_out_tongue:
Interesting that society is getting it's knickers in a twist about all the 'fake news' doing the rounds and yet all the muppets believe and love the 'fake news' :wink:
PS I reckon this goes around corners quicker than a Corsa :laughing:

I like this deal but also tempted by the 1.4T Astra SRi Nav for a similar amount.

I'm on my 4th lease and not once have I been given the option, nor have I want to buy it because I'll lease another car!

Your 99% comment, as if fact, is nonsense.

10th line down.

Please explain.

There are many different types of plastics for many different uses.

I'll be going to a much better car overall. Nicer ride, even better spec than the Prestige. Not as many horses but much more comfortable. No idea why we are obsessed with BHP in this country anyway, there's so many VSR's on motorways it makes power worthless.

I have the same deal with the 208 and I love it ..love the poke and the spec ....just wondering why you hate it

my wife has had her BMW with them ....they are decent

It's fun to drive on country roads but that's where it ends. The interface screen is full of bugs when a phone is connected, the seats don't always clip back into normal position, the suspension is horrible, it's French.

No, it's not.

Following every lease I've had results in an offer to purchase the vehicle. So has anyone else I've known to have a lease. Thank you for informing us you'll take another lease rather than purchase the car, even though no one asked.

Was thinking the exact same. What a c**t...

Clearly it is. It seems others in this thread have never been offered the chance to buy them. I've leased directly from multiple manufacturers and the process has always been the same. I receive a letter about a month or so before the lease ends with a collection date, I'm reminded of my obligations regarding the condition and then the handover is done on my drive. The car gets driven away and I move on to the next. You still haven't proven to me that 99% of all leases have the option to buy, you have just become aggressive for no real reason...

The very fact I have chosen to lease the car means I'm unlikely to want to buy it. I'm entering in to a typical 2 year period so I can drive a new car every 2 years. I don't want to tie my cash up buying a £30k+ car nor do I want to own it when the warranty expires and I have to get it MOT'ed. All of the benefits of a lease is removed if you choose to buy it at the end!

I accept that circumstances might mean some people are offered the chance to buy it, but that's not norm.

I'm on my 3rd lease. Never been approached to buy the car at the end.

http://www.fleetprices.co.uk/personal-lease-cars/ford/focus-hatchback/focus-hatchback-10-ecoboost-125-titanium-navigation-5dr-156475734

I assume this is the deal in the OP we are to call up about? Seems to now be on their website.

Their are basically 2 types of lease hire companies or deals one that is a sole lease hire company and those that lease cars as agents i.e. a motor manufacturer the first type you normally have to ask if you can purchase the car but sometimes they may ask you, then after you have found out the value of the car in question you can haggle a price between yourself and the lease hire company. the second type who act as an agent may not be allowed to sell you the car under the terms of condition between themselves and the owning company. I f you wish to purchase the car at the end of a lease you will need to start negotiations at least 6 weeks prior to collection date. This is information gleaned from internet sites which I did to try to settle the argument, can you yes or no, whose been offered and who hasn't and why. Not bothered myself because I bought my new car cash.

This is a good enough car for the money, especially with the new '17 road taxes.

UK isn't a country for fast cars...cameras and police everywhere and people don't pay attention, speeding at all the wrong places. Plus there are daily too many accidents as it is, resulting from people thinking their car is fast.

I was looking at prices for these on car wow and they seem to have been replaced with a navigator model now and the price was expired.

does this include insurance??

I've done 145k in my fiesta 59 plate lol (not in one year :-p ).

Ordered one :smiley: thanks OP! Cracking deal. Took the 10k miles for an extra tenner a month. Deep impact blue :smiley:

Did you pay extra for the colour? Quoted me extra £15 a month for Magnetic.

No, nothing extra for the blue

@wayne3004 Worth noting in OP that it's a 400 pound delivery charge to Scotland..

Free delivery to scotland after all :smiley:

Do you have a date Stu?

Fair enough. I'm 6 foot 3 and couldn't face driving long distance in a tiny car these days

10th April delivery at the latest, could be before! You?

No date yet.

stunning price, nothing close to it now :disappointed:

where is the deal? anyone got a link? this comes out at £183 cheapest. Expired?

Yep, expired, but £183 for a Titanium is still decent.

Has anybody actually received their car yet? I ordered mine on March 14th, given an original estimate of 28th March delivery, then April 10th, now apparently looking more like April 26th. I feel like I'm being given the run around, not very good communication from Fleet Prices. Anybody having a similar experience?

Mine is scheduled for 20th April. I was told when I ordered it should be 1st week in April. I'm now without a car for a couple of weeks. I've let them know I'm not happy about it but it's wasted breath.

I'm exactly the same expected del back end of march still no concrete date been set for a delivery, I secured the car an payed the process fee 5 weeks ago. poor communication

I'm the same, estimated delivery was beginning of April but still have no idea when mine will be delivered.

Mine is now apparently confirmed delivery date of 26th April.
Again, this is me chasing them up and them not getting back to me. Poor communication.

These people have told me now I'm the 5th may for delivery! My contract with them states the 10th April! Raging is an understatement! Is it possible to cancel out of the agreement?

Have you received your car yet ClownHat?

Yes arrived 9am today. Happy with the car. Only weird thing is the delivery man got it washed on the way here and they did a terrible job. As in it's clean but horrendously streaky liked they just chucked soap on it and didn't wash it off. Nothing that won't wipe off.

So, another problem.
I rang my insurance to change from my old car to new, and they said the reg I was given starting BV wasn't showing as anything. They manually added the car details anyway and sorted me out.
I emailed Fleet Prices to enquire as to the issue, and then drove my new car around a bit for a test drive and went to the shops.
The reply I got hours later said please confirm your registration is BG.....etc. I replied with the BV reg (rest is the same, difference is the V and the G), and their reply was 'So you've got the wrong reg plate on?'
I was stumped at this point, and checked my documentation. Everything I've had, all emails, the contract etc all have the BV reg on. Where had she got the BG reg from?
I then had an email at 16:35 forwarded from Ford Lease to say;
Tell the customer to go to Halfords and get it changed to the BG reg, then send us the bill.
I emailed back at 16:39 asking 'Rochelle' from Fleet Prices to call me immediately. By 16:52 I'd heard nothing so rang Fleet Prices, who didn't answer. They'd all clocked off early. I then rang the number for Ford that was in the forwarded email, same thing.
So checking on the gov.uk website tax/MOT checker the BV reg doesn't exist, but the BG reg is a Ford Focus.
Now, does this mean the wrong reg plate is on my car? Or have Ford made an error when registering with the DVLA and BV is the correct plate?
I have no way of telling without the V5, and anybody who can help has buggered off home without resolving the issue.
I'm in work at 7am tomorrow until 4pm, with hopefully a break at some point to try and sort it by phone.
Needless to say I'm fuming as I can't drive it now as it's probably un-taxed.
Rubbish customer service, and I've let them know by email how annoyed I am now.

Ford Lease are open until 6pm, and they apparently can't help me as I've gone through Fleet Prices and they haven't 'set me up on the system yet' so can't confirm what the reg is supposed to be.
Fleet Prices website says they're open until 7pm. When I call them it eventually cuts me off saying to ring during office hours.

So I've spoken to 'Lee' at Ford in Nottingham now who actually knows what he's talking about.
Apparently my car reg has always been BG, but somebody entered it on the system wrong a month ago so all my documents say BV. This is the same system that makes the reg plates, so BV got put on.
He has confirmed it's definitely supposed to be BG (checked the VIN on my car on the phone), and told me to go to Halfords to get plates and they'll reimburse me. Surprisingly on ringing Halfords they won't take an email/my word as proof, and need a V5 which I don't have.
I've emailed Lee back saying I want them to make me new plates and deliver them ASAP (supposed to be going away in the car this weekend).
No reply.

If you can wait until tomorrow can you pop to your local Ford dealer? Most are open until 7pm. They will be able to check what reg is set against the VIN Number. Then if it is wrong you can pop to Halfords (open until 8pm) with the letter from ford and get the correct plates made up.

You won't get pulled as you won't be on the DVLA database so no ANPR hits.

To be honest for such a monumental cock up I would expect a big company like Ford to send somebody out tomorrow to fit the correct plates. Sounds like that's not an option though.

I hope the deal is worth the hassle we all seem to be going through for this.

Mine arrived a week ago. I received an email asking for feedback and I informed them that I wouldn't be using FP again after leaving me without a car for 2 weeks. Absolutely no sniff of an apology. Shame, because that's all it takes. I wish sales people would realise that a personal apology goes a long way.

My car now has the correct plates. I had to drive it to Bristol Street Motors Ford to get them to do it.

After all that, would it be a smart idea if I went for this deal? This would be my first car, and I'm in no rush to receive the car. It's still not acceptable what they did!
(If the deal is still even available)

Accidental issue of incorrect number plates is something that has happened for decades and is only difficult to sort out now a days because of the strict way that they are allowed to issued due to people cloning. If you have never made an error then I applaud you, but try to keep it up into your old age and beyond the grave.

So should I go for the deal...

If it suites your requirements yes, but personally not for me, a "B" max at this I would go for but not a Focus. Nothing to do with the body size and engine, I just don't like the Focus.