Just picked up a Kona Blue FiST on Monday, what an awesome car!
All my friends / coworkers have jokes about how often I switch cars (within a year each time) and I'm coming out of a '12 CTS 3.6 Performance. Recently I starting thinking, I'm 38 years old, successful at my job and have nothing to prove to anyone with a premium car. My last several cars have been horrible on gas mileage and / or meh to drive (two of which have been Caddy's that spent WAY to much time in service, including engine replacement under warranty on a 17k mile ATS). I drive a '55 Dodge on the weekend and wanted something better on gas (for my 70 mile round trip commute) and fun to drive. I found NOTHING bad about the FiST in the automotive publications and figured it was worth a shot.
~300 miles and and I still cant believe how much fun it is. I'm not new to "hot hatches", being a car guy as soon as I turned 16 in the '90s, there were plenty of Civic Si's and GTI's in my past. But man, this thing trumps all hot hatches I have had when it comes to fun (most recent a '12 GTI).
So far only 2 things I have done are plug the symposer and remove the front license plate, but plan on a sub and maybe the 215 kit soon.
Just enjoying reading through some threads at this point.
All my friends / coworkers have jokes about how often I switch cars (within a year each time) and I'm coming out of a '12 CTS 3.6 Performance. Recently I starting thinking, I'm 38 years old, successful at my job and have nothing to prove to anyone with a premium car. My last several cars have been horrible on gas mileage and / or meh to drive (two of which have been Caddy's that spent WAY to much time in service, including engine replacement under warranty on a 17k mile ATS). I drive a '55 Dodge on the weekend and wanted something better on gas (for my 70 mile round trip commute) and fun to drive. I found NOTHING bad about the FiST in the automotive publications and figured it was worth a shot.
~300 miles and and I still cant believe how much fun it is. I'm not new to "hot hatches", being a car guy as soon as I turned 16 in the '90s, there were plenty of Civic Si's and GTI's in my past. But man, this thing trumps all hot hatches I have had when it comes to fun (most recent a '12 GTI).
So far only 2 things I have done are plug the symposer and remove the front license plate, but plan on a sub and maybe the 215 kit soon.
Just enjoying reading through some threads at this point.
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and congrats
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