What kind of logic is having a ford focus the wrong vehicle to drive when I want to stay on the road?
If we are talking about extreme winter conditions, where there's argument that winter tires make that little bit of difference important, then similarly, a Focus isn't the right vehicle, due to only FWD, and smaller so crushed by the average pickup or SUV.
The curbs in my neighborhood and everywhere else here is at least 6" high. I'm not or is over three quarters of the US population buying a truck with 35" mudders just so I can drive off the road into somebody's yard because you don't know how to stay on the road.
Okay, and you are better off destroying a wheel taking the curb, than a collision with another vehicle. Nobody said anything about 35" mudders. I know how to stay on the road fine, but also accept that there are scenarios where you don't just try to brake and hope for the best, instead defensively drive your way out of harm's way and on a road with other vehicles, that can mean leaving the roadway, whether you chose to, or are rammed and it happens anyway.
So then drive properly and stay out the ditch and you won't need a vehicle to get out of of something you put yourself into in the first place.
I mean, you do realize you're supposed to drive on the road, not next to it right? Is driving into ditches how you justify your vehicle purchases?
It was only one scenario. Weren't you even following the entirely of the conversation?