Thanks guys! Enjoying every moment with the car and love that turbo spooling.
Congrats on the new ride. Just curious what dealership you (or other NOVA locals on the forums) went through and what your experience was like. I'm thinking of getting an FiST soon somewhere in the Fairfax/Arlington area.
I was in the market for a new car and was cross shopping the FiST with the FoST, GTi, WRX, Civic Si, basically anything with 4 doors and was fun to drive. I went into a couple dealerships in the area to check out the car and made my decision after seeing it in person and test driving it. I emailed a whole bunch of dealerships asking about the best OTD price and went with the dealer that had the car/configuration I wanted in stock.
I ended up driving out to Apple Ford to get the car. Pretty far out from where I am, but was definitely worth the drive to get the color/options I wanted. Only had about 2-3 hours driving manual beforehand so the drive home was definitely interesting but actually pretty easy to drive for a new manual driver.
Overall, I had good purchasing experience from the dealer. Spent about 3 hours from the time I walked in to the time I walked out so not too bad. Heard about others spending all day at car dealerships so I couldn't even imagine that experience, 3 hours was long enough for me haha.
Got the car for 23K OTD, took the customer cash (1K) and went with my own financing. Didn't purchase anything extra except the Extended Warranty, which I wasn't planning on purchasing initially but the Finance guy pushed really hard and I got it at a discount, so I figured it would be more peace of mind than anything since this is my first brand new car.
Let me know if any of you guys are looking to purchase something similar or any questions I can help you guys with. I can probably pass my sales guy's name along through PM as well. Pretty cool guy and had very good customer service.