2006 ZX4 SES, Pitch Black. Equipped with 5-speed manual, Sony/Audiophile audio system, ABS and traction control, front side curtain airbags, heated seats, engine block heater, cruise control, moon roof.
If I'd had my 'druthers, my car would have been a ZX3 ST, Screaming Yellow, with the 5-cylinder Duratec Turbo and 6-speed that the Euro market gets. But alas, Ford doesn't build this animal for some reason. I would NOT take a slushbox and I HAD to have ABS, traction control and the other winter stuff; I live in Wisconsin after all. And I won't consider any car without side-curtain airbags; that Hyundai and Kia give them to you standard and Ford makes you pay extra is a travesty. And I just wanted - didn't need really - the highest level factory audio I could get and I've become spoiled to having a moon roof.
I told him to get me an ST. After several days of looking, he said that an ST equipped the way I wanted was made of "unobtainium" - NO ONE had one even close within a thousand miles. But he found a black ZX4 SES that had what I wanted on it. I drove a demo SES manual, found it satisfactory, and so I told him to go ahead and get me that black SES.
Black was not on my list of preferred colors, but it has grown on me. With only 5,000 miles on the odo, the engine is still very tight, so my fuel economy for city driving (what I mostly do) is an unexceptional 23 mpg. A friend who owns a 2005 SE with the same drive train assures me that as the engine loosens up, fuel economy and performance will improve noticeably.
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I'm overall satisfied with the car so far (despite the slighter lower horsepower and cheesy rear drum brakes), but I still chafe when I think about how much nicer Foci the Europeans get to drive. Before this I was a VW buyer. It bothered me that VW, a German company, keeps their best stuff at home; we Yanks aren't "worthy," I guess. But it REALLY steams my onions that Ford, supposedly an AMERICAN company, also seems to think we Yanks don't deserve their best products.
Perhaps Ford's North American sales wouldn't be in the tank if they opened their eyes and realized that not ALL potential U.S. Ford buyers aspire to a Mustang GT, an Explorer or an F-series pickup.