FORD FOCUS IS CAR OF THE YEAR

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By:

Wim Oude Weernink

November 23, 1998 05:00 AM

FORD'S FOCUS is the 1999 European Car of the Year. It won with a landslide 444 points. Of the 55 European motoring journalists on the voting panel, 42 gave the Focus maximum possible points.

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