$23500 is the truecar price for a FiST with just the recaros with the $1000 ford cash.
Have you checked that particular car out on the Ford website? I'd use that price as the starting point. You can probably get a Focus ST3 for that price.
And... I managed to delete my inital post. Actually meant to delete the thread as it is now largely a moot point.
Checked the two suggested sources (thank you for the truecar reference, I didn't know that was a thing) and got a better offer, on a car with almost exactly what I wanted: Recaros, end of list. The only change I would have made if I had ordered it to my own specs would be to request the orange-trimmed Recaros as I think that would go pretty awesome with the blue paint. I won't care a whit when I am sitting in the seats.
I'm not sure if it will work on an st, but when I bought our fiesta I signed up for a brochure in the mail and got a 500$ off thing with jt.
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