Overall a positive step but too late for some owners who will have sc***ped their car when the engine blew. It must be ten or eleven years since this engine was launched.

My neighbour has recently bought a '22 Puma with some flavour of the Ecoboost and donated his '62 MK3 Focus with its 1.6 Yamaha engine to his daughter who lives at home. I often wonder whose car will meet the grim reaper first.

For now I'm keeping my faithful old MK2 with its 1.6 Yamaha engine.

I can't understand why Ford went to the effort of changing the wet belt to a chain recently but didn't also the the oil pump. That's still a wet belt. Seems doing half a job to me.

I got rid of my puma last year, mine had a new engine at less than three years old ( just) it didn’t fail spectacularly just had a strange noise from the top end, the dealer said ford couldn’t tell them when the parts were available so they just fitted a brand new engine but they wouldn’t warranty it past the original warranty, shame really as I would have had another if they did, bought a Toyota instead..