I just love the 2001 (Cort) Squier Standard Tele I had for Christmas a year ago. The Standard is a real Fender Telecaster - it's just made in Indonesia. Beautiful tone, excellent quality hardward & finish, and real tone from the pickups.

I positively like the narrow nut width & 9.5" neck radius (I've long thin fingers!) and the overall effect is one of great flexibility and speed, with real sensitivity of fingering. IMHO 9.5" is the ideal compromise. I like that radius on a C-shaped neck - with a narrow 1.65" nut this gives a really flexible (in terms of feel, not rigidity!!!), fast neck that is still OK for barre chords. I've fairly long, thin fingers though - if you have fatter ones I guess you'd be more comfortable with a wider neck.

The guitar came with Fender Super 250L's (.009 to .042), which I don't like, at all. I then changed the strings to d'Addario EXL120's, which are the same guage, but have a much brighter, cleaner sound, and feel more flexible to bend and so on.

Certainly I prefer it to any MIM Tele I've played, and a few US ones too!

Mine's Midnight Wine finish - it's the only one in this finish I've seen (it's an IC01... s/n). Plenty of blonde, s/burst, metallic sort of charcoal (is this what Fender call Pewter?) as well as Candy Apple Red, but never another Midnight Wine. Lovely finish, too.

The guitar's phenomenal value - unless you really hate it having "Squier" on the peghead it really is hard to beat.