Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Welcome to 37 MPG


I got my Focus yesterday! Love it, love it. It's much smaller than the Five-Hundred it replaces, but also much tighter and way better looking.

Heather: "You have a car with COLOR now!!!"

And despite the 33 MPG rating for highway, and the fact that it's not broken in yet, I just got 37 MPG on my way to work today. In mixed driving! That's a number I can live with. And the whole thing, loaded up and taxed out, was less than $20 grand.

The Bluetooth phone integration is my favorite thing...I can now fully appear to other drivers to be talking to myself in this car.

It's very spunky for a 2.0L 4-banger too. It's not going to come close to my Mustangs of yesteryear, but this is a new car for a new era in my life.

All around, I think I made a good choice, especially in the land of stratospheric gas prices. I like seeing: "450 miles to empty".

And the 7-color ambient lighting is way cool.