"Mature" is a good way to describe this updated third-generation Focus all the way around.

The majority of our drive route was on the relaxed side of challenging, with lots of pleasingly undulating farm and forest vistas but little in the way of sharp corners, let alone mountain attack stages. Thus, final word on handling will have to wait until one of our California contributors can give it a proper canyon shakedown, but we observed a mature, well-damped ride from the Focus' recalibrated suspension and pleasingly weighted steering with good accuracy and decent feedback for an electric system.

What few small, cobblestoned towns we trundled through revealed not only the Focus' good low-speed ride quality on its 17-inch rubber, but also the merits of its well-executed stop/start system, which will come as standard fit on our car. We often tend to shut these systems off out of annoyance, but this one is refined enough to be tolerable.

In fact, "mature" is a good way to describe this updated third-generation Focus all the way around – it's traded in a modicum of its spunk and much of its youthful indiscretion for some added refinement and sophistication, not to mention higher-quality interior furnishings. We suspect it's a tradeoff that will suit most buyers very well. Besides, the ST performance model will still be around to help us let our hair down with an altogether different recipe for EcoBoost performance: two bottles-worth of displacement.

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