ford makes super safe cars. in 00 when the focus first came out my brother bought one and during a late night ride home from dropping off his gf he fell asleep and crashed into a freeway overpass at over 60mph. the car crunched so hard the battery ended up on the dash but he walked away from the crash. he then bought the same focus as a replacement and a year later a guy in a corvette and a guy on a hyabusa motorcycle were racing in the opposing lanes my brother was driving in and the corvette lost control and hit my brother head on. the guy on the motorcycle was mixed into the crash and didnt make it and the guy in the vette also had serious injuries but my brother again walked away. in 03 i needed to buy a little car to handle my long commutes. guess what kind of car i bought!? a ford focus! i year after that, my sister was in her 99 mustang gt making a left turn with her friends to see a movie and they were t boned by a drunk driver. he hiit them right on the rear left wheel so hard the rear axle flew off and they had to use the jaws of life to get my sister and her friends out, and my sister only suffered broken ribs and a broken wrist. thats why i have a personal bias for fords. super safe to say the least!