I wish the Focus had a better front diff, but other than that I agree. I've lived with mine for around 14,000 miles now and it is a great little car.

I would buy the crap out of that car if it existed. I love our Focus ST, but it is not big enough for long road trips.

Pike's Peak hillclimb was in GT2 and 3, did they remove it? I honestly don't know.

Yes, absolutely. I love simulators, and agree there should be a driving one that has no real goals. You could also do what MS did in FSX and have missions available for those who choose to do them alongside a totally separate free-roam mode.

So basically, Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for cars.

I wanted to get a set of black steelies with snow tires - dunno about the hubcaps, I guess its a matter of taste...

I need to go a little easier on the poor thing. My tires are gonna be toast before I hit 20k.

I've got the same car, same color! 13,000 smile-filled miles and counting...

I thought every place already had ordinances for noise pollution. Usually they are a bit more precise than "audible from 25 feet" however. A friend of mine drove an old diesel rabbit and he somehow fit enough speakers in the trunk (and was a big enough asshole) that he got a few noise tickets. The police on the main…

Yup! I loved shop class. Even if the teacher wouldn't let us use the table saw.

That's pretty bad, especially since you're talking about a high school.

The problem with home economics being mandatory (at public school, anyway) is that those classrooms are expensive and schools don't have money in their budgets for a room with 20 ovens. The loss of home ec class is a casualty of the progressive defunding of education in this country. Same with shop class.

My Fiancee and I are both in kickboxing class, and we entertained the idea of having a boxing match at our wedding to see who gets whose last name.

Thanks, but I think I'd prefer getting my own type rating if I ever run into that 'problem'

A dream of mine is to be able to afford a big enough plane to reasonably make long trips around the country. King Airs go for a few hundred grand these days, and have a 1,500 mile range cruising at 220 knots. That would be just fine for my purposes, thanks. Perhaps after the mortgage is paid off, that'll be the next…

Why can't we have a retractable steering wheel and pedals for emergencies? See: Will Smith's Audi in "I, Robot."

Oooh, I've never seen that setting. I think I need to do some more digging into MFT to see if there's other functionality I'm not aware of.

I just assumed that all Fords had the same system. I agree, in my Focus ST the auto lights work great. I have HID, does your Mustang have HID headlights? Maybe the delay is different/shorter for halogens and that is causing trouble.

Our old diesel S-10 had lost so much compression, putting it in gear even on a relatively gentle hill wasn't enough to keep it from rolling.