I guess I kept my cars longer, so I had no opportunity to get another early Fiesta. After the '78 I got a 1985 Toyota MR2, then an '89 Mercury Tracer LTS. After that I switched to pickup trucks because I was water skiing competitively and needed to pull a boat. My wife had always driven manuals, and had a Saturn SL1 when we married. But then we received my mom's 1 year old Camry with an automatic. And 5 years ago, my wife sideswiped a telephone pole so we got a used Scion tC with an automatic. We were going to look at Fiestas, then Honda Fit and Kia Soul. She drove a Fiesta SE with an automatic and hated it. Then we drove the ST, and though she told the salesman she still wanted to look at the others, once we left the dealer she told me she didn't want to look. She liked the sportiness and looks of the Fiesta ST and knew the others wouldn't match it. So kudos to her for wanting the car I wanted anyway!