those cars are PIECES OF SHIT!!! i had one back in the day, had to replace the cat under 20k miles, and the keys reprogrammed 5x... they fucking suck! its a ford. i will tell you when i bought mine i actually had hope for them considering what they've done w/ the escort/focus in europe, but it turned out to be a POS. luckily i sold it before everyone here figured that out.