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Originally Posted by vztrt
The price was with a sunroof.
I've sent her the link earlier in the thread in regards to the mazda 6, so she can have a look at that. Funny enough it all seemed like she was gonna go pick up the new lancer VR but the huge butt and the nose that stuck out put her off. The Mondeo was never on her mind till she saw it, almost contemplated an auto, but talking to the salesman at Ford (who was a fellow manual driver) knew that she wouldn't be happy with the Auto. But like stated earlier Ford has until october to get a manual out here.
The kicker is if the new Falcon comes out looking as good as the Mondeo, then she might even get one of them (if there still isn't a manual Mondeo). She's driven mine a few times and the only problem I could see is that the car might be a tad big for her.
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Gee, and i thought the new lancer looked hot! Obviously everyone has their own preferences. Plenty of info over in the orion hub about new falcon, including lots of revealing shots of the car in spy/leaked photos, certainly is inspired by mondeo styling but not exactly the same. Not sure whether the new falcon will even offer a manual lower spec models, might only be sports variants, which might also confuse matters. Sorry to say but i do feel for you loyal manual guys - outside of sports models (and even some of those) the manual is slowly but surely dieing - DSG boxes might be the only future for manuals at all!
I am a fan of modern autos, the ZF in a falcon makes as good a case as possible for an auto, and the mondeos is almost as good. Still, when i do drive a manual it always reminds me of the many benefits (lower fuel burn, more control etc.). Fords tiptronic autos are quite good these days, so might almost be worth going for a test drive of a mondeo diesel or something - it might be good enough to overpower the lack of a true manual.