Hello from Colorado!
Hello everyone,
My name's David. I've been lurking for over a month and decided to join since I've had my Race Red '12 SEL HB for a little over a month. I was in the market for a new car because my wife and I had a baby in March and her '06 Scion xA was way too small for road trips and my lanky 6'2" frame didn't fit in the back with the baby very well at all.
I come from a line of Volvo cars, I still drive my 1998 V70 Base and I've had an '03 XC90 but the trans failed completely twice in a 3 year period.
I absolutely love this FoFo we got, it holds all of our stuff and the back seat is pretty roomy if I have to sit back there! We've tried to do a day-trip here in Colorado every weekend so far and I have to say, I'm one of the lucky ones when it comes to the DCT, I think mine functions perfectly and it drives and handles in the mountains supremely. I just wish it had a turbo to compensate for the altitude.
The story behind buying this car was that we were very interested in a Black with Black lether '09 Volvo S80 T6 which is an amazing car, comfortable luxury with 300HP stock. The financing wouldn't work out and we were about to leave the dealership when the salesman showed us this Beautiful Focus that was a trade-in. It had only 6,200 miles on it, which I calculated to be about 15 tanks of gas. It was barely used at all, there was almost no sign of use anywhere on the car; it was perfect!
At first I was a little put-off by the color(I've only had white or gray cars); Race Red is a brilliant and blinding color, but I've grown to absolutely love it. It's so easy to find our car in a parking lot now!
I don't have any intent on modifications past tinting the windows and getting a roof rack for road-trips. I may look into getting some Volvo Pegasus replicas for some winter tires, those wheels are amazing, I love 5-Spoke wheels, and those look great on a FoFo!
Sorry for the long intro, but that's what I'm into at this point.
Here's some photos!
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