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Well bottom line I need a full sized sedan. I'm in a situation commute wise where I could lease, I only put about 7500 miles a year on a car and the number of years I would finance a car, I'd be long sick of it and it would be worth nothing by the time it was paid off.

The 500 is leasing horribly, $450 per month for a 28K car (and that's with my X-plan deal), when I held that up against the cost of some nice imported sedans, Volvo S-80, Saab 95 that have a decided nicer, real import feel for the same $$ I just couldn't keep the Ford in the same ballpark.

Plus when my wife went to take a look she summed it up perfectly...Ford just seemed to be trying too hard, the gauges are cheesy, the "wood" inlay looks cheap, it just 'aint an import...if in the spring the finances of the car normalize, they set a decent residual I may reconsider it. The whole car purchase has been backburnered anyway for a few months to get us through a house closing and new baby...we'll see in the spring/summer...