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Well well well, guess who showed up. Not leaving for PR until tomorrow. I just took him home.

Boss' wife has been wanting to get rid of her Envoy they bought not too long ago from our dealership. He had some questions about my car last week, and he told me today they were lot hopping over the weekend at different Ford dealers, looking at Fiesta sedans, when a fellow "looker" told them the new Focus is coming shortly. Not sure if she'll wait to see those, take a Fiesta, or something else.

Not sure how an inside-mounted tailgate handle would work in the real world under certain circumstances.

PR friend has gone to PR for an unspecified amount of time. He did this to me before. At least he told me he was leaving this time around. When he comes back, I will be unavailable to speak. Meh. I've dated college professors and banker millionaires, what do I want with a guy with no car, who gives away his business and takes off for faraway territory with no stated return date?

Well thank ya sir. Today for the first time in I don't know how long, I was itchin' to leave work just to drive.

I must look at this with the same eye as the '93 chartreuse and purple S-10 preview of the 1994 redesign. Some of the bling will not make it to production. It has a weird rear bumper that reminds me of the '94-'97 S-10, and a front end that is car-like. Overall, this show truck blows the GMT355 out of the water. It will be interesting to see how much the production version is toned down. Love the overall shape, and the interior is very nice. Wish it had a more truck-like front end, and the rear bumper appears barely functional. I have to remember, also, that most pickup trucks sold outside of North America come with no rear bumper atall, so any NA version must have a fully functional rear step bumper. Interesting they'd pretty it up so much for Thai audiences. It seems to me to be a giant clue it will come to America, where we obsess on pickup trucks as pleasure vehicles as much as workhorses. It must have a modern drivetrain with 6-speed transmissions. I'd love to see the diesel land here if and when it arrives stateside.

You will heretofore be known as "Leonard Nimoy" on these boards.

YouTube vids or none of this ever happened. Please?

Don't waste it.

Oooooohhh, it burrrrrns...

Angie Dickinson?

Meh, my right hand is on my knob a lot anyway. Average MPG has gone back down to 35.1, was tooling around town a good bit today.

I wish you all the luck in the world in your quest. The car is a gem.

I'm liking it a lot. I asked the saleskid if the car has a compass. He said no, but he was wrong-o. There is a compass readout on the radio display screen with the radio on. I'm not gonna lie, there are so many features with Sync, for example, I prolly won't use, and I won't be buying an I-pod for plugging in music. I have figured out the rest of the Euro-centric controls, however. I thought I'd miss a center armrest, but that is not the case. The seats are very supportive. This car is about driving involvement, not lounging about. Thanks for the positive comments, guys.

Thank ya, Paulie! That's the way I like 'em.

Sphynx

As threatened promised, here are some daguerreotypes of the neu Fiesta fun transportation device, taken at a familiar locale -

Julianne Moore

One of those Caravan cargo vans would make a fantastic, easy-to-handle camping vehicle. You can get them with full privacy glass instead of the blank panels for driving visibility.

Handsome Puerto Rican person visits from time to time. But there is someone else I have not been able to get over for... holy crap... 8 years!? How pathetic is that.

The boot is missing. This is not a finished, production-schpec vehicle, Reggie san. I kind of like it myself.

ejaculation

Coming back from lunch today to work, I was sandwiched between a '72 Cutlass coupe in Burnt Orange with tin top, Cragar wheels and loud pipes in front, and a first-gen Volare sedan in metallic beige behind. Both in good shape. Then later, after woik, I saw a late-model Aspen coupe in white with a black, high-rise hood scoop and a menacing, delicious engine sound.

I am not happy at all. This morning, I pushed the button on the wall to open the garage door. Simultaneously, I opened the hatch lid to throw my gym bag back there. Suddenly, I heard a horrifying scraping noise and the car rocked a bit. I gingerly pulled down my hatch lid to discover a HORRIBLE scratch on the plastic trim piece that tops the license plate, houses the blue oval, and acts as a handle. The steel bar that you pull on the garage door when the power fails on the opener gouged across it. I went to the dealer after work and picked up a bottle of touchup paint. It's touched up now, but if you get close, you can still see it because of the gouge. I am pissed off and heartbroken that I allowed this to happen... at 177 miles. As far as the Fiesta in general goes, I love driving it. I am pleased with my purchase. Right now, the average MPG is showing 33.7, with all urban driving except for a quick trip to mom's, which involves a stretch at 55 mph for about 6 miles. I turned on BPM on Sirius tonight on the way home... the Fiesta premium sound system BUMPS very sufficiently for me. I felt like a teenager for about 10 minutes... which called for all windows down, the volume turned up, and a slow trip through the local shopping center parking lot. I need to warsh it. Shouldn't take long to wipe it down at my favorite car warsh. I am completely disengaged from the truck, which was like sitting on a park bench, uninvolved. I truly missed driving a manual transmission.

Love the colour choice. Pics please.