A bit of backstory..
This past Christmas I was on the West Coast visiting my sister in LA and while she was at work during the day, I was out and about with a friend I had from Texas, who moved out there recently and bought a FiST. It was one of those "sat in the car and it just felt.. RIGHT." I've been wanting one ever since, and finances finally lined up so I had been looking for about 3 weeks. At first I wanted new, but that meant a lengthy wait and the local (Virginia Beach) dealership kept pushing the Focus ST on me new and would do a used dealer trade, but that wouldn't come with any discounts
With my mind made up for used, I searched CARMAX. They had 3 available nationally and I went for the one in Kentucky that was Molten Orange with matching Recaro's, moonroof, and nav. It also came with a $400 transfer fee, but whatever! wait a week and a half, go to pick it up with check in hand and it has an open recall on the gas tank so they couldn't sell me the car -They were willing to refund my transfer $ though.. That night at work I'm checking Cars.com and Cargurus, and come upon a PB FiST in NoVA with 8k mi and all the options with grey Recaro's on Tuesday, called on Wednesday, bank stuff on Thursday, and picked the car up on Friday. It's been the most fun since then, and it's nice getting high 30's mpg instead of 11-14 in my other car