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I have a manual, but the behavior sounds normal. See the following post: Edmunds Post

Agree about not being able to get a lot of the options on a Focus with manual. You can get the 5 door SE with Manual and Sport Package with many of the colors: Kona Blue, Yellow, Candy Red, Race Red, Grey, Silver, White, and Black. I don't like how the configurator changes the car to a sedan without asking when you change to the other colors or automatically removes the sport package when you change to Green.

From reliability rankings in Consumer Reports: Honda CR-V Excellent Ford Escape Average to Very Good Toyota RAV4 Excellent GMC Terrain Below Average Kia Sportage Average I guess there are a bunch of bankrupt, welfare case, unemployed burger flippers who don't understand the importance of reliability when purchasing a vehicle.

I totally agree with bottgers here. The days of heavily discounted Hyundais may be over. The Toyotas and Hondas in general may have higher prices but are more discounted at this point. In my area using American Express/Truecar/Zag, here are some examples. Civic LX-S Auto MSRP: $19905 AMEX: $16735 Elantra GLS Auto Pref Pkg 3 MSRP: $18350 AMEX: $18417 or Accord SE Auto MSRP: $24480 AMEX: $20456 Sonata GLS Auto Pop Pkg 2 MSRP: $21895 AMEX: $20487 It is early on the Elantra/late on the Civic, and I would expect a 1000 off MSRP soon, but that would still be 17350 which would be 600 to 700 more than the Civic. If you are looking at loaded cars the Hyundais may still have some advantage, but not close to the way it used to be. Kia still seems to have more of a value play with the Forte as they are still discounted fairly heavily.

I posted a while back some issues with my wife's 2005 A6. Summary: Slow tight turns, such as into a garage or parking space caused a low vibration that shook the entire vehicle. My Jeep with lockers turned quieter and smoother. Despite efforts with replacing tires and such, the dealership continually told us "working as expected". Well, don't let me loose on the Internet. :) I found several TSB's that addressed this issue and took the information to the service advisor. Again, he told us, working as designed. So the lead tech went for a drive with us and immediately noticed what we were talking about (duh). He spoke to the SA and urged us to call Audi Customer Care. We have documentation from EVERY visit to the dealer where we mentioned this prior to warranty expiring. From 18,000 miles on, every visit made mention of this issue. Each time - working as designed. After calling Audi Customer Care, we made some progress and they wanted to try replacing the fluid in the differentials. Turns out in 2005 and perhaps part of 2006, Audi used a different fluid in the diffs than what is used now. We found, after a LOT of digging, a TSB that addressed our VERY issue (especially armed with the information about different fluid). Took that to the dealership, along with our info from ACC, and talked to the service Manager, a guy who has always taken care of us. (We've purchased 2 Audis, a VW, and a Mazda from this same dealer). They replaced the fluid in front, no charge, and charged us $67.00 to go ahead and do the rear one as well. The result: a car that is as quiet as it EVER has been. FINALLY! After 5 years of nagging them, we realized we were NOT insane! I'll dig up the TSB number and text of it if others find this of interest and possible use. -Paul