Now I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but after my previous comment about how nice it was getting back into my GTD (and it is), one of my work colleagues came to work today in his early Christmas present to himself.
Wait for it, a Focus 5 door ST-3 250ps manual, in deep metallic blue and 19" alloys. He said he pretty much ticked every option they had so it has Leather heated Recaro's, electric everything, xenon's, 8" Sat Nav with connect, electric tilt and slide sunroof, all the safety options (blind spit, traffic recognition etc.), basically loaded.
I have to say, and I have a hard time saying this, the interior was quite a nice place to be. The re-modelled dash as part of the 2015 facelift, is much nicer and quite logical. The seats are superb, and boy did it go with a deep growl from the central exhaust.
However, here's the kicker. Fully loaded the car at list came in under £30k, and with a drive the deal discount, he got it for under £24.5K. Even with the deprecation, that's a pretty good price for a decent motor, and makes the Golf's look very expensive. Obviously his was a manual, but Ford told him early next year they will introduce their new 6 speed power shift DSG type box to the ST range. I expected to not like it but in the end, it was a very nice motor for sensible money.
