The Focus actually isn't that bad at all, and it certainly doesn't suffer the rattles that
VAG products do despite them apparently feeling more «premium» inside - that's the case with mine that's at 47k miles now.
As with
all VAG products, someone will do something crazy with it as long as mods are available.
VW's and other
VAG products in general are notorious for vague electrical seems - unsolvable issues, so congrats on finding the culprit.
Sure the cabin isn't a patch on a good VAG one, but it's so much more involving to drive than
any VAG product.
The turbo does make it more like a generic
VAG product, I assume the upper - level Cayman variant will still have a V6 though so it's not so bad.
Not exact matches
they are under Audi management and engineering and most of their
products are
VAG based.
Corporations like
VAG don't make any bad
products anymore.