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I think that's one thing it won't be. The RS looks great of course, but I highly doubt it'll end up below 40K out the door. (especially with Ford announcing everything but price on this thing). Personally, I'm more interested in a Fiesta RS. Give me the tossability of the Fiesta ST with Focus ST power and awd? Yes please.

Delayed response sorry. But basically the ford racing warranty is a seperate warranty that takes place of all parts affected by the frpp tune (so your engine basically). It's a 3 year/36000 mile warranty. After that, you will no longer have warranty coverage on anything said tune affects, though you'll still maintain warranty on unrelated parts. It would be same thing with your extended warranty, non-affected parts would maintain warranty while affected would lose it after the frpp warranty runs out. I've heard on and offs about Ford being pretty strict. A guy on the facebook group said he had his warranty voided from an intercooler, which is sad giving how shit the stock one is. Nick's dealer seems to be more friendly though and that's where I plan on going in the event of anything major. In a nut shell, most people just go the Cobb AP route and just flash back to stock for dealer visits, this way you maintain your original warranty. Cobb (and the tuners) claim their is no way for Ford to be able to tell your car is tuned, all the flash does is trigger a code for battery disconnect that will go away after a couple key cycles. Here's a thread from the ST forums with some info on the FRPP warranty stuff. http://www.focusst.org/forum/focus-st-maintenance/18533-official-ford-racing-warranty-thread.html

I had a 2000 accord v6 for quite a while, it ended up going through two transmissions I believe and I know Honda actually got sued over the transmission problems with that model. Transmissions going were a pretty common problem with them. Just saying, might not last too long on a rebuilt one either if you're thinking of keeping it after fixing it. I'd probably cut your losses and sell it.

If you can find them, you can get some good deals on new 14s. Since they changed the body style, the 14s going quite a bit cheaper. Unless you're set on a 15 of course.

Yay more STs! Nice pick up, the white fits the 15 models pretty well I think. Yup, you got the efocus. I haven't had any crazy issues with mine mount wise, it will bang on a hard 1st to 2nd shift, but I fixed that problem by just not launching the car.

If he got his CDL through the military, I could probably get him into my company doing yard work. Basically just moving semi trailers in/out doors and into the lot and so on. He wouldn't be on the road at all, just private lots. Starts at $15/hour I think. Got full time and part time positions

I drive a truck, so i've been in the exhausted as hell realm a few times. Even so, I feel if someone is bashing on my window with a flashlight, I'd probably wake the hell up, tired or not. Regardless, lady is lucky she or someone else wasn't killed. If she was actually drunk (or high or whatever), hope they throw the book at her.

From what little I know, it's a huge pain in the ass. Basically, the city has to have had people call and complain about that particular pothole, then the city has a certain amount of days to go out and fix it. If your vehicle is damaged after those days, then you get a chance at a claim. If the city has not been notified of the pothole or the days haven't passed yet for them to fix it, you're pretty much screwed. Best you can do is call the city and get the appropriate number and what have you, can try to file a claim but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Let me know when you get one, so I can 'try it out' also. Honestly, I expect these to hit 40K in the price tag department though. So I'll just stick with my ST, makes me happy enough. Have to admit, Ford really has been blowing it out of the water lately, lots of cool cars coming up.

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The general guess, least on the ST forums, is the car will probably run 40k+. Especially considering a fully loaded ST runs about 30k. Ford said they only planned on bringing a 'limited' number of RSs over to the US, which will also drive the price point up more.

If you like hatches, a fully loaded Focus ST or GTI would run sub 30k out the door.

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Thanks for the input guys. I'm still a little torn on it to be honest. Because the thing is, I really like black and this black in particular (ford's tuxedo black) is one of the nicest blacks I've seen. As far out of cars I've owned I've actually cared about, would be red and white. I found red pretty easy and personally thought white was a pain in the ass. But both I was real happy when they were all cleaned up. This car will be a mix of a daily and fun weekend car, it'll be garaged and won't see snow. All that type of deal. Just with my work schedule, I can't afford to spend tons of time going crazy on washing my vehicles. One of the reasons I go for, spray it down and then touch less wash type thing. I think in the end, I'll just go with 'money talks' and if the deal is good enough, I'll just go for it. Just wanted to get some views from you guys.

So after spending some time looking. I finally found a car with all the options I want and that is a good match to me. Dealer also seems to be offering a very good price. The thing is, the car is black. Ive always heard black cars are a complete nightmare to keep clean. Now I don't really have the time or patience to sit back and do a big detail of my cars. Usually only do it a few times a year. In between that, I usually just hose them off and hit a touch less wash once a week. So basically, is black as bad as people make it out to be? Will a quick wash once a week suffice? I just like my cars clean, the mirror coat shine and such isn't really a concern to me.