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Originally Posted by Paul Douglas Schneider
what would your other options be in this price point?
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Depends on what my focus was for the car. Usually when I get a car, it has a main purpose, either to be fun/fast, to have a certain practical attribute (e.g. a wagon to transport the dogs), maybe if I'm looking for a commuter I place higher values on the attributes of fuel economy and comfort.... It all depends, but I never seemed to really just want a car that was just decent at a lot of stuff. I understand that a lot of other people don't think that way, and there's a good reason why BMW successfully sells so many 328s, but that's just not how I work.
So, at that price point, we don't have to get into what would be the fun/fast focus (it's been beaten to death already in here, along with the Evo and of course the 5.0, among others). For a commuter, I'd take the Focus over the 328 and pocket the astronomical difference. And for the practicality of a wagon... well I hate to say it, but I've always been a sucker for the packaging of the Volvo estates.