I believe Spirit Blue is Performance Blue or at least very close to it. Performance Blue was a Notprth American color offered in 2014 amd 2015. It is a a nice shade of Blue in the sunlight that looks quite good on the FiST. Out of sunlight it shifts twoards a light very light purplish blue.
I absoultely love it as a color and if I could order one new in that color would in a heartbeat. I have looked at the low mileage used market all over the United States both on Cargurus and Autotrader annot found more than about 44 for sale. This is doing a nationwide search.
Kona Blue was a 2016 color only and is even less common. It is a darker Blue outside the sunlight that shifts towards a darker Purplish Blue in Sunligt. I found it shifted to much to the darker Purple side for my preference in the sunlight. Finding a clean low mileage Kona Blue would be easier possibly because its a 2 year old vs a 3 year old car.
That said I am most likely about to order a brand new Orange Spice 2018 because I would like Smoke Storm Recaros amd finding 2017's in Orange Spice Smoke Storm Recaros the pickings are slim and far away from me.
All said and done its really down to how long you want to hold out and wait. If your willing to wait you may indeed get actly what you want or you might be sitting around waiting when you could be driving a new car.
It is this reason I am most likely placing my order tomorrow.
FYI I like the Orange Spice a lot and I use to own a Orange 240z, which was vey similar to the Orange Spice in color tone. Blue is my favorite color thoug , but I am afraid the Blue FiST train has left the station for me.
Thanks very much for the great info! Kona blue does look cool but darker than I'm looking for. I think Performance blue is the way to go for me.
As you said, i will have to hold out for one to hit the market in my area but I do have my fingers crossed.
Just on a side note...do all ears of the FiST have folding flat rear seats?? I've seen some reviews (looking at different years) some seemed to fold flat and some didn't (creating a big lip between the rear cargo area the the area above the rear folded flat seats)....I couldn't tell from the you tube reviews if the reviewed/auto journalist knew what they were doing.
THis would be a big deal for me as I want the usable cargo space.
Don't know if this helps you since you're looking at buying a new car and would be interested in what your purchase price would be.
I just went on the "Build and Price" ford.ca for my area - Looks like a grey Fists with al the options minus sunroof would run $28k w/o taxes and available financing between 3 and 4%