Boost

I love the XR5 Focus. Despite not being classically beautiful, they're a proper muscle car in the finest rocket-powered-tin-can/WRX tradition. They sound fantastic. The Recaro interior is a little slice of World Rally and they handle like they're on rails. They even come in one of the sweetest colours I've seen in years - Electric Orange.

But I could never, ever buy one. Even though it would be super-practical for parking in town or fanging around the twisty roads on the way to the property, they have one fatal flaw:

They're small.

Like all Australian guys, I kid myself that I need a full-size automobile. Two, actually. Something with heaps of torque. Y'know, for towin' trailers and stuff. Even though I only do that once a year. But we might have a couple of kids eventually, and you need a big car for kids. To fit the bicycles and the fishing rods and the prams and the porta-cots. Or some other reason.

I think my main problem is being worried what full-size-car-guys will think of me. The committed Focus driver looks at it differently though - The guy in the Falcon has to catch up with him first.