Day 6 and 7: Have you driven a Ford lately?

Ford has been making the very attractive and more and more reliable focus and Fiesta models for some time now. While the focus Lacks a manual transmission for 2017, the used Market seems to have a lot of the five-door hatchbacks and both the focus and Fiesta in manual transmissions. That's good because the Dual clutch transmission automatics are a nightmare of imprecise shifting and weird acceleration. The space utilization in the focus is not the best, it is comfortable and quiet. I haven't driven the fiesta yet but it's compact size definitely leads me to believe it will be a fine handling car with a reasonable amount of interior volume for its size. Fords resale values seem to be holding pretty well except for the electric Focus, but I wasn't planning on buying an electric Focus anyway. One other slight possibility is the Ford C-Max Hybrid. It's just the tall Focus but with the Hybrid drivetrain. Unfortunately it also has a CVT transmission and that can't be gotten around. The C-Max can be had for relatively small amount of money, and it's fuel economy is excellent. As long as you don't get the energi model the interior volume is also pretty good.