Stuck on the M11 for 8 hours in a Ford Focus Ecoboost

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09/30/2013 at 10:14 • Filed to: Ford Focus

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Alex Wakefield thought his round trip from East Sussex to East Anglia would take about 5 hours. In fact he left his house early in the morning and returned at 1.15am the next day.

He got stuck on the M11 motorway for 8 hours whilst 200 litres of spilled cooking oil was cleaned up.

Not missing an opportunity to do something with his time he wrote !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of his day, and a comprehensive review of the Ford Focus Ecoboost at 0.05mph to boot.

Here are a couple of extracts:

Having recently been beset with problems in my usual company car, a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I had been offered a Focus by my fleet department and this was, I thought, a great opportunity to see if I liked it. By the end of the day, I had no idea that I would become more familiar with it than I could possibly have imagined.

And...

The overhead gantries issued a warning not to use the hard shoulder, but it was comprehensively ignored. I can only hope that these people had a hard time from those at the front of the queue as they tried to barge in. It seems that in these desperate situations, humanity divides into two and either complies and becomes obedient and courteous, or we return to our barely hidden ape-like past and put the blinkers on, becoming selfish and panicky.


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