If this is typical of presumably the 1.6 Duratec it's a poor do compared with the old 1.6 Zetec. I did a brim-to-brim over several hundred miles recently on our first generation 2000 Focus Auto estate 1.6Zetec with over 110,000m and got around 37mpg overall. Of course, it could be your enthusiastic driving technique.....
It is a fact that different drivers, in the same car, on the same roads, can return fuel consumption figures different by as much as 30%. So without knowing exactly how you drive (acceleration, braking, typical cruisng speed, gear change timing etc) no one can say whether your Focus is giving good or poor mpg.
Years back I bought a car from a mate, he used to get 25mpg, I used to get 35mpg driving on the same roads (not much slower, either)
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