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Originally Posted by Southwell
Thats cheap, was it a main dealer? What MPG do you get? Ive just sold my Mondeo and quite like the new ones. Is it quick?
Sorry for the thread nick  |
Hey Ian, who is Nick?
Anyway, it was from the Car people in Wakefield, its 55reg in Silver with 38k miles for £8500 - so not what id expect to be the cheapest around, but even so it was certainly reasonable and (now I have got rid I can say) the Focus had faults I couldn;t diagnose and I was sick of it, couldn't really sell it privately if I want to sleep at night, just had to cut my losses. I managed to get £350 discounted by bartering too.
It did 55mpg on the M62 coming home from Wakefield to Bury (50 mile), would have been more like 60mpg if wasn't constantly changing speeds for lorries and would let cruise control take me home uninterupted at 75mph.
The average dropped to 48mpg sitting on drive with engine running while setting up the voice controls, bluetooth, phonebook etc.
I have done a few miles of A roadness, probably about 50, and the average dropped to 46mpg.
Tonight I have been round at Claires and so done some more motorway miles and average is back to 48mpg
The tank was not far from empty and it took £57 to fill, the range is going to be over 600 miles according to the computer. Whereas in my Focus it cost me £50-ish to fill and it would do 300 miles on average, 350 if on a long motorway journey (i.e.Belgium) per tank. Its also cheaper to Tax, and to insure.
Its freekin quick, its 155bhp and 360nm of torque. Compared to the ST170 which was 172bhp and 196nm of torque. The Mondeo on paper does slower 0-60, but in reality, the in-gear speeds are far far far quicker as all the power is just at driving RPM and not at redline - although somehow it doesn't beg to be thrashed, so my license will be clean again soon.
I can't fault it on anything, it handles great, its comfy (and a lot more luxurious with so many gizmos), easier to park (as i can see the bonnet now!) and it has a tighter steering lock than the Focus. I wish id chosen it to begin with!!!!!
The Mondeo ST Tdci is same power, but has less toys and same suspension, but seems to be a little more expensive for equivalent Titanium X. So by choosing the Tit X I got more for less.
I was originally looking for a Fiesta Zetec S Tdci til I stumbled accross a Mondeo Titanium X at Availablecar.com in Nottingham. The Fiesta's just aren;t depreciating so wasn;t finding any bargains, the same money for the Mondeo is far more justifiable.
Chris