I just joined a week or so ago, I've had my 04 zx3 for almost a month now. I found it because I was googling the check engine code I had, for which you all were very helpful.
I've always really liked the Focii, I got mine after spending probably almost a year off and on looking at them (I'm a broke college student so I was waiting for a good deal to show up so I could just pop money out of my savings account and not take on a car payment.)
I guess I also kind of did it out of brand loyalty, I drove a 92 Ford Mustang for almost 6 years. Plus my dad is a Mustang fanatic, and part of my reasoning was that if I get another Ford it won't be completely foreign to him when he helps me work on it (which so far has been pretty accurate!)