I am thinking about a 2014 ford focus se for a new daily beater. I travel for work all over central texas and will probably put 30k miles per year just traveling for work. Anybody have one of these that can verify the comfort for 2-6 hrs in the car every day. I have read some of the autos had problems with the trans, but the one I am looking at is a manual trans. Does anyone know of any issues with the manual trans in the 14's?
I currently have a 2000 s10 that is a great daily beater but I really need 4 doors with good gas mpg. I was considering newish toyota corolla, newish ford focus, newish honda civic but it seems I can get the 14 focus cheaper than a used one and the focus is cheaper than any of the others new. My dealer found a 2014 se with alloys, sync, power windows and locks for under $15,000 which is about where i want to be. I figure the savings in gas every month will justify the added car payment and my s10 is getting up there in mileage and I really don't want to fix anything else that breaks on it. What are your opinions here?
I currently have a 2000 s10 that is a great daily beater but I really need 4 doors with good gas mpg. I was considering newish toyota corolla, newish ford focus, newish honda civic but it seems I can get the 14 focus cheaper than a used one and the focus is cheaper than any of the others new. My dealer found a 2014 se with alloys, sync, power windows and locks for under $15,000 which is about where i want to be. I figure the savings in gas every month will justify the added car payment and my s10 is getting up there in mileage and I really don't want to fix anything else that breaks on it. What are your opinions here?
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