I got word last week from my Internet sales person at my local dealer that my order for my FiST will be in on October 1. That would make it 4 months & a couple days from my order date of 29 May. I am now working on accumulating my down payment.
Awesome, looks great! You will love that car even more as time goes on. I kind of wish I had shopped around for a Molten Orange now, it looks amazing and I hear pictures do not do it justice.My 05/29-ordered 2015 Molten Orange 2015 ST (which I'm naming, "Tangello") arrived & I drove her home Friday, 09/26. After driving it a few days to get used to it, I LOVE this little 'Hot Hatch'! It seems that I have a lot to learn about what she has to offer! My iPhone 5S/64Gb paired up & plays automatically, very easily.
My OTD cost was $26,016.90 w/tax, license, & other necessary So. Calif. fees. I opted for services & other options @ signing that added $5,808.72 more, figuring @ 72, I'm not going to be doing much -if any- work on her myself anymore, and I can afford it. So that $24,421.69 as-advertised price with Molten Orange paint, moonroof, and Smoke Gray Recaros (no nav. but w/My Ford Touch/Sony sound system) quickly climbs to a bottom-line of $32,573.30. My 2004 Mystichrome Cobra will now stay parked & protected most of the time. My Madeline likes Tangello so much that I can see here thinking real hard about replacing her 2001 540ia w/a Performance Blue one for herself!
Our youngest Daughter Jen took it for a drive & LOVES it, too! So Ol' Dad scores 1 for us oldsters! Who sez you have to be a young person to like this Fiesta ST? I am looking forward to doing some upgrades, but just not loud ones.
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That's relative. Not every one is privy to a fantastic deal on these cars. Plus he opted for a lot of packages that most buyers would not; which he seems OK with, so again, it's relative. No reason to say he paid too much when that's a matter of opinion / perspective and not a matter of his own comfort with what he paid. I think the focus should be on whether or not he is happy with the car, which it seems he is. I've seen a lot of people pay less, but I've seen quite a few pay around the same.
No Sil3nt611, I paid invoice + Tax & gov't. fees + the $5,808 for the options a 72-yr.-old can afford, NOT MSRP which was much more. Remember, this is So. California. I agree that most people wouldn't have bought the options & I did hesitate, but I now have bumper-to-bumper protection including ALL maint. + paint/body + Ford's optional security pkg. The only place I have to negotiate is maint. for performance options I will have them install/cover. I'm looking @ LSD (mountune or Quaife), ST-215, mud flaps, & Cobb AccessPort V3. I will wait until I get past 1,000 mi. or more, first.
The dealer put the order in as part of their inventory. I'm not exactly sure when they put the order in but I received the vin on 10/30/2014. I called Ford customer service for an update in mid November. They told me the car was in New Jersey and would be delivered any day. I called again in early December and they told me the car was in Mexico. The problem was then escalated and I received a Ford rep as a contact. Since then, the car was shipped from Mexico, stuck in customs for 4 weeks and now is hung up by weather delays. The car has been changed in their system as Sold (even though I still don't have the car) and I'm receiving really poorly timed "how do you like your new car" survey emails. This is a disaster. I keep requesting a detailed report of the order from start to finish but they continue to ignore my request.
