EOTR - Mondeo Tit-X TD SI edition
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 2:30 pm
Seriously Impressive edition, obviously.
So, 10k and nine months, whats to like about a Mondeo?
Well, quite a lot. It's comfy, quiet, good heater and aircon, very good (premium) sound with the sub, frugal on a run, not too bad around town (50 and 30 respectively), decent punch, can get past 100mph with relative ease, even moreso post remap.
Bad things? None really, other than it being a big, fairly heavy estate, which blunts the handling but still gives it enough poise to be useful on a backroad if you want to make progress.
Costs? Fuel, oil and filters. Literally all it needed. I remapped it but that's not really a 'cost', that was me playing silly buggers, but it defintely helped make the car more usable, with the turbo spooling up a lot earlier and delivering the torque over a much wider spread than previously.
The interior is nice and as I currently have the E46, you can see where the influences bled into the Mk4 Mondeo - very similar in terms of switchgear and layout and general feel and function. Seats were comfy and grippy (mmm, alcantara), with little flashes of metal-like trim.
Overall, if I needed another big car again, it'd be well up the list. But I think I'll stick to fun things for now.
Sold to a chap who does length-of-the-country tips four or five times a year, to replace a Vectra that's been written off after being T-boned. I think he'll be happy with it. I mean, when I was doing Leeds to Herts every weekend, it turned that journey into an absolute 'nothing' of a trip. Bang on the cruise control, turn up the tunes, and roll down the road, with the occasional flex up to a ton to get past dawdlers. Nice.
So, 10k and nine months, whats to like about a Mondeo?
Well, quite a lot. It's comfy, quiet, good heater and aircon, very good (premium) sound with the sub, frugal on a run, not too bad around town (50 and 30 respectively), decent punch, can get past 100mph with relative ease, even moreso post remap.
Bad things? None really, other than it being a big, fairly heavy estate, which blunts the handling but still gives it enough poise to be useful on a backroad if you want to make progress.
Costs? Fuel, oil and filters. Literally all it needed. I remapped it but that's not really a 'cost', that was me playing silly buggers, but it defintely helped make the car more usable, with the turbo spooling up a lot earlier and delivering the torque over a much wider spread than previously.
The interior is nice and as I currently have the E46, you can see where the influences bled into the Mk4 Mondeo - very similar in terms of switchgear and layout and general feel and function. Seats were comfy and grippy (mmm, alcantara), with little flashes of metal-like trim.
Overall, if I needed another big car again, it'd be well up the list. But I think I'll stick to fun things for now.
Sold to a chap who does length-of-the-country tips four or five times a year, to replace a Vectra that's been written off after being T-boned. I think he'll be happy with it. I mean, when I was doing Leeds to Herts every weekend, it turned that journey into an absolute 'nothing' of a trip. Bang on the cruise control, turn up the tunes, and roll down the road, with the occasional flex up to a ton to get past dawdlers. Nice.