Solid plan, but everyone knows it won’t work unless we add this:

Very true - I was recently looking for a new commute beater but in my area at least the secret is out.  Can’t swing a dead cat without hitting at least 3 Focii with dead DCTs but the manuals have gone up in price along with everything else.

Which practically nobody did (the manuals anyway)

Fair enough, to a point but since the automatic was by FAR the most produced variant - the manuals and RS don’t untaint it much.

Absolutely the 2012-up Ford Focus. Ford knew the trans was a pile but pushed it out anyway.

Bonus rocket power, my friend.  BONUS ROCKET POWER.

Grandma got run over by a rocket...

Looks more like a move to put it in first gear.

I just can’t get over all the plastic. I had a 2005 Ram and it sure seemed less plasticky than this. My least favorite of all the LH cars.  Magnum or 300 ahead of this one.

Couple that with the Kia Boys theft epidemic and how that’s being handled and I’d say you’ve likely identified the cause. https://jalopnik.com/the-hyundai-kia-theft-fix-is-a-lot-worse-than-you-think-1849653867

I bet the theft epidemic and that not only is Kia expecting customers to foot the bill for the antitheft device install that didnt come from the factory - many dealers are seeing it as a profit opportunity might have something to do with this.

Ran when parked.

Hold my Tide Pod.

Yeah, for this money it would have to have a better (or at least more interesting) powerplant. Hell, even a NA 2.3 Ford would be an improvement.

A *relatively* small annoyance that I couldnt get past on these cars is the unnatural position of the steering column (and therefore the steering wheel), angled towards the center. By far one of the lesser flaws on these, but still - I couldnt.

Toyota relied heavily on the converter to help reduce emissions and it has a lot more precious metal in it than compared to many others (Ford V10s and Honda Elements are also targeted for similar reasons).

I’M NOT TRYING TO KILL MYSELF - I’M JUST FREAKING OUT!!!

My thinking was that to isolate the positive and negative to prevent the possibility of shorting out with other batteries in the bag/container.

My city collects batteries separately but recently sent out a message admonishing us to NOT put tape on batteries (I have been doing this with button cell lithiums).  I am surprised we havent had any fires yet.

It was if 4 wheel bearings cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.  I feel something terrible has happened.