I'm not entirely put off by rear drums. I find my ex's Fit a hoot to drive (which is why it's not in the running), and it has rear drums.
And I got my phone paired just fine, it was the "music with blue teeth" part that stumped me... and as I'm just now finding out, that's because SYNC doesn't actually support bluetooth music; you still have to use the USB cable. That's totally worthless, because I can't believe they spent all that effort to make it interface so much with a phone over BT, but neglect to let you play music with it.
The Fiesta may have just been terminally iDrive'd. It may be an excellent drive, but the in-car computer is irreplaceable garbage.