[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by gacook

Let me preface by reminding you all this is my wife's car...and I believe I wrote some missives here a few years ago about my trials in teaching her how to drive a manual. Now, those things considered:

It's not the EcoBoost I4. That's what we initially were looking at. She test drove one and loved it, and then we did a little research. Being this is the first year for that engine, it's been plagued with some recall issues that my wife really didn't want to deal with; can't blame her there. She's not the best driver in the world, so would likely wrap a 5.0 around a tree eventually, so we settled on getting her the V6...and it's an automatic (though it does have paddle shifters so I can "play" occasionally). When she was in the "searching" phase, there were a few cars she considered--Scion FRS, Mazda Speed 3, and the 'Stang. I purposely didn't drive the Mustang so that I wouldn't sway her decision (I love Mustangs, and miss my '09 occasionally).

The V6 produces the same amount of HP as the EcoBoost (310), but has slightly less torque (the EcoBoost has 320; I think the V6 is around 290 or 300). The car has so many damn buttons on the steering wheel, it's crazy!

When we went to buy this, they had none in the state of Arizona in the color she wanted, so they had to bring this one in from New Mexico. Of course, that didn't happen until after the dumbass salesman tried to pass off an EcoBoost as a V6 to us, like I wouldn't know the difference. Idiot.

If it wasn't a V6, and if it was a manual transmission, I'd probably steal the car from my wife. It's funny; after driving it, I seriously considered buying myself one.

Pretty sure I would love the heck out of 300HP no matter what was under the hood!