Yup. Still have her. Still haven't fixed that fog light yet. I've put a whopping 3500 miles on it this year. So we're up to 9800 miles.
I am seriously considering trading in for a used grey S60R at 128 Volvo. Lowered with a body kit. Looks mean and will fit a baby seat. It's a higher mileage car (69k), but looks to be in top shape. Like some real car freak owned it but just drove a lot.
300 HP! and AWD!
I'm looking to see if they'll do a straight up trade for the MSM so my payments will stay the same.
Story for you, just for fun.
I spent some time in the car business, selling Fords. It's a good environment to hear stories, particularly about the old days in the business -- Seventies and Eighties, usually, and I heard some pips. Here's one about how it used to be at 128 Ford.
128 always had a reputation as a hard-nut store. Old school selling, tough negotiating, etc. In an star-crossed effort to motivate the salespeople, management decided that no salesperson was allowed to come in the building unless they had an up (customer). Giving extra teeth to this shameless ploy was the fact that it was the dead of winter. So there are all the salespeople, standing outside with the cars, waiting for an up so that they can get back into the showroom and stave off freezing to death. I think it got to the point where they'd just cajole folks into coming in to get a cup of coffee and act like buyers so that they could go inside with them.
Separately, the R strikes me as a fun car. The only one to get is the manual, of course. The wagon is pretty slick, too -- a rather unique look, especially with that roof spoiler.
