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Old 01-11-2012, 06:53 PM   #315
BaraFGXR6
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Default Re: New Focus ST Info thread.

Yeah the subie will like a drink depending on whats its doing. Have spoken to a few people who have them and they will suck it down the harder you press the go pedal.

But it does have some nice power figures.
I personally cant stand the interior but the outer shape looks nice enough.
The mrs still loves em, still trying to win her over on the ST:

- better on fuel
- better standard equipment
- newer technology
- IT A FORD!
- real world performance useable on the street
- 6sp manual
- RECAROS!

Her arugment (which im having a hard time disagreeing with):

- Seats are just as good as recaros
- more power out of the box (meaning less time before i will get sick of it)
- Boxer rumble (really cant argue with that, love the rumble!)
- AWD
- Interior may be lacking but it can fit a double din unit...
- Upspec model is now going for 45k and includes full leather and sat nav
- aftermarket parts (considering she hates it that i spend money on cars i find it funny she is pointing this out).
- she prefers the look of the subie over the ST where as i think the ST dosnt look that bad in person.


What really won my mrs over was when we test drove the wrx was that she able to shift it beautifully and wasnt scared to put the power down and she really loved the turbo rush as did i. This is startling as usally power + manual with my mrs = curb (its possible the amount of grip the car generates had something to do with this as well due to the fact that when we drove the xr6t she was drifting all over the place like it was a causal day in Tokyo).
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