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I got a freakish number of miles out of a 93 Fox. Mom bought it brand new in 1995, having been an unpopular color/option combo and the odometer stopped working around 330k miles, i drove it a couple more years after that and sold it in running shape to a girl who wrecked it during the test drive... - the thing which struck me back then was how tiny the radiator was, and how despite that there was really not much heat under the hood - probably in part because the odd longitudinal engine + front wheel drive configuration meant tons of room for air cooling. It got decent fuel mileage, maybe because it didn't turn so much gasoline into heat.

The weirdest thing was that it felt like the gear ratio for 4th and 5th seemed pretty much the same, you'd shift 1-2-3-4-5 and it felt like shifting out of 4th, and then right back into 4th again. I did really like the way they did the shoulder belts in the front doors... worked really well and had no way of failing like those damn attack belts that Tempos and Accords once had..