Test Drive Ford Mondeo Sedan 2000 - 2003 Sedan

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The new Ford Mondeo wagon has a large number of heterogeneous pleasant properties that are traditionally sacrificed one another, since they are very difficult to combine them.

The Mondeo wagon looks at us wide open friendly eyes, offering immediately go to you. Well, we do not mind.

There is already a lot of design about the design of this model. It remains only to add that the appearance of a car with a body, finalizing the traditional range, is very harmonious. We particularly note the well-made rear lighting for the middle class car it looks very elegant.

The door of the cargo compartment can be opened from the driver's seat, and from the street. Using the rubber key (reminiscent of the underwater lantern button), located above the license plate site, you send a signal to the lock drive. Hands do not have to dump.

On the floor of the trunk, durable loops for fastening things; On the left side of the first-aid kit box, on the right standard cigarette lighter connector. The machine is equipped with a full-size gala.

The back of the rear seat of the universal is consisted in parts (according to formula 1 + 2). As a result, quite large pantry is formed with absolutely smooth floor until the front armchairs. Closing the trunk, you can use the handle on the inside of the door.

Our car is equipped with a new two-liter 16-valve turbodiesel DURATORQ-DI with a capacity of 115 hp. Interesting Supercharger Design: Turbine blades change the angle of attack depending on the speed of rotation.

In the effectiveness of such a technical solution, quickly convinced, sowing behind the wheel and going to the road. Immediately the impression is as if the car is equipped with an atmospheric gasoline engine. The cause of illusion in the nature of the speed set and the low sound accompaniment. I remember about the presence of a diesel engine, only standing next to the car, when the motor works at idle, but with rare visits to the refueling station.

On the bottoms (~ 1000 min-1) there is a small failure, but already from 1500 up to 5000 revolutions per minute, the engine pulls confidently and even, without having a pronounced middle phase and tapping at the top. The dynamics of the machine allows you to feel absolutely comfortable in the city and on the highway. If you wish, you can even cut down a little.

In general, if you try to briefly describe the Ford novel, the words as sufficiency and safety come to mind. This car is not trying to prove anything to anyone and behaves like a decent, unlumous person who does not suffer from an inferiority complex, confident in his abilities. The wagon is perfect for the young and active, but already a family man.

The list of security tools includes frontal (with two degrees of filling) and side airbags plus other side curtain types, as well as a folding pedal node, ABS and brake force distribution system. Belts are equipped with pretensioners and tension limiters. All this in the basic configuration.

Mondeo, wageing in the Continental Premium Contact bus size 205/55 / \u200b\u200bR16, perfectly listens to the informative steering wheel and reacts canceled to the reduction of gas. At first, somewhat puzzled a combination of soft suspension and extremely effective transverse stability stabilizers of both axes. But let's try to solve the design of the designers.

On a broken road the suspension, let it not be silent, calmly smoothes medium and small irregularities, and on a good highway with gentle turns, the car writes smooth arcs with almost no roll, while remaining predictable even after the start of the rear axis. The combination of tire characteristics, suspension and ravings is such that the car, if he lists, then without a sharp breakdown, and he caught the same smoothly.

But on the forest path of the Kochka, falling under the left, then under the right wheels, instantly rock the car in the transverse direction, have to go with a ryx per step.

Brakes station wagon This meeting of advantages. All of them are disk, work sensitively and accurately. The only note is: with simultaneous active driving and braking (for example, when the holes in the asphalt), the unloaded rear wheels are persistently trying to overtake the front; However, not too sharply need to be a rider to cope with this nuisance.

It turns out the native element of the universal Mondeo smooth highway. This, in addition to the suspension settings, hints and not the best review in all directions, except for the frontal. Regarding the mirrors of the rear view of this model, it is sufficient. We only note that when you throw a look at the dead zone, you do not see anything other than a wide body rack.

But this is the only drawback of ergonomics, no longer complaining about. Excellent seats with height adjustment and lumbar backpage allow you to quickly find a comfortable posture. A well-positioned KP lever is impressed by non-surrender clarity and selectivity of switching. The steering column with pleasant handbars is also adjustable in height. Easily readable instrument panel and each little thing in the workplace is thought out and deliver pleasure on the way.

It remains to add that the car in the TREND configuration presented here (intermediate between the basic Core and the road GHIA) has official dealers worth a little more than twenty-four thousand dollars. Consider the car is interesting. Being very manual, comfortable and roomy, it has all the advantages of a car with a gasoline engine, while consuming six liters of diesel fuel at a hundred kilometers in a mixed cycle and 4.7 liters in a rustic.

Ford Mondeo 2.0 Di (Trend)

Body 5-door station wagon luggage compartment dimensions (length / width / height), mm 1140 (1982) / 1141/847 Full weight, kg 2050 Max. Speed, km / h 193 overclocking time up to 100 km / h, from 11.0 counter. Fuel consumption, l / 100 km: urban cycle 8.3; Country 4.7; Mixed 6.0 engine: inline, 4-cylinder, 16-valve; Power, hp at min-1 115/4000; torque, nm at min-1 280/1900; Power supply direct fuel injection 5-speed transmission 5-speed, mechanical size of tires 205/55 / \u200b\u200bR16 Suspension of wheels, front and rear independent, with transverse stability stabilizers disc disco, with ABS steering Rush, with amplifier price, $ 24,600.

Text: Dmitry Sokolov

A source: Magazine 5 Wheel [07/2001]