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Caution, high tension! The latter can now be translated into all languages \u200b\u200bthe same - Ford Mondeo ST220.
At one time, Peugeot took a copy of the models with zero in the middle. Mercedes with his already managed to become a household two hundred twenties did not do this. And right. Mondeo ST220 has much more rights to high -voltage allegories.
With a flash. Something you have been late, ”Ford remarked to us in the representative office of the company. - In such a car, it would be necessary to burn in a dry one. Nothing, ”we thought,“ in raw weather, it is much more chances to get an electric discharge.
Someone had already managed to christen this car in a wolf in sheep's skin. Road practice shows that this metaphor is more beautiful than true. On the road, the peculiarity of our Mondeo was noticed and even very much. Perhaps, due to a powerful advertising campaign - in half an hour we drove past the half -dozen shields, where he appeared absolutely identical to our car. The audience turned her neck, for some reason, first of all, on the discs. ST really looks that they need: 18-inch, with 16 knitting needles, without a hint of pretentiousness.
The appearance of the charged Mondeo is complemented by the front spoiler with oblique grooves of the air intake and integrated foglights. A more powerful rear bumper from which the final system pipe sparkles. Schildik ST220 on the lid of the trunk. Plus, powerful xenon headlights entering the standard, highlighting the stern in front of a walking car, like outbreaks of a photo-gut.
RED LIGHT. Inside, first of all, the front chairs of the recaro puntes color are noteworthy. They are so great that even a feeling of imbalance arises to the space of the salon. Although sitting, sorry for the banality, is extremely convenient. What can not be said about adjustments. At the driver's seat it is with electric drives, but the seat pillow is so wide that you can get to the buttons only by taking off the clock - unless, of course, you wear them, like our president, on your right hand. Electroregulations for the front passenger seat - the option. Behind - the same red skin. In the doorway - plastic inserts of a similar color.
It would seem that such a pretentious decoration implies response at the central console and the dashboard. No, there are no Kevlar-aluminum spacers, no sports scales-except that the speedometer is marked up to 280 km/h. But in the standard equipment of the Mondeo ST220-music with an index 6006, which includes, among other things, a petal jaist on the steering column on the left and the nest of the six-disc CD changer, the plug of which, when pressing, for some reason shoots under the feet. There is also a climate control and the function of heating the front seats. And the Intelligent Protection System, which implies, in addition to front pillows, side and so -called safety curtains.
FIREBALL. On the Ford Mondeo ST220 is a slightly forced 24-valve Duratec engine with a volume of 3 liters, already familiar to us by Ford Maverick. The nameplate at the stern even underestimates the power of this car: the wide phases of the camshafts and the increased valve stroke added the engine of extra 26 forces - ST220 is able to develop 226 hp. and accelerate to 243 km/h.
However, in our conditions, everyday pleasure from driving with such a breeze is hardly possible. In addition, the element ST is still not speed, but acceleration. After all, honest hopeless horses are accelerated by the car, so the gas reaction should be instantly, and at any speed and in any gear. For example, ST220 willingly touch the second. The third in urban mode, when you can only dream of maximum speed, the most popular one. The fourth and fifth are also not always to save fuel, at high speeds they are very traction: it pulls so that the mirror stigma of the recaro inscription may well be printed between the shoulder blades. By the way, the on-board computer stubbornly showed the consumption when moving in the city cycle at the level of 15.9-16.1 liters, and since the tank capacity remained the same, the potential owner will have to call in the refueling much more often.
The steering wheel at the Mondeo ST220 is heavy, regardless of the speed and angle of its rotation. For the completeness of comfort, it would be nice if the right armrest would be larger or at least placed at the same height as the stamping in the door. Although then it would not be too convenient to control the handle, which on ST220 sticks transmission with enviable clarity. The clutch pedal for ST in sporting is elastic, therefore, moving in a traffic jam, I had to pump the muscles of the left leg, and the right to keep speed so as not to stall-the adhesion pedal is very short. The neighbors in the transport stream perceived this as an invitation to the competition - the sound of ST220 is juicy even at idle.
The homeland of electricity. ST220 brakes got standard - with sub -piston calipers and disks of the previous diameter, but there are enough of them to the athlete. With emergency braking, EBA turns on. Of the other electronic systems, especially in winter, the work of ESP was noticeable-with quick maneuvers through the inter-headed snow slope of Mondeo, only a little wagged, striving to go in a demolition, but immediately electronics returned to it the former trajectory.
The suspension of the Mondeo ST220 is stiff - both by ear and in the sensations of the fifth point. If you imagine the numbers 225/40 R18 in a three -dimensional dimension, it turns out that our car is almost on a cannon. Plus sports racks, reconfigured suspension angles and 15 mm clearance reduced.
Actually, charging cars for Ford is not in a novelty. Back in 1986, the Special Vehicle Engineering (SVE) department was surprised by the world of Sierra Cosworth, now, following the rally Focus RS, the company offers ambitious to the speed to customers of the Focus ST170 Hatchback and Mondeo ST220. The latter, by the way, is produced not only in the sedan body, but can be a hatchback and a station wagon. Rumor has it that in the plans - and Fiesta St. As for the competitors of the Mondeo ST220 - the segment D -driving for fast driving - there will be too much one hand for their transfer to their fingers.
DANGER! KEEP OUT! The charged Ford costs $ 10 thousand more than the most powerful serial Mondeo - with a six -liter six and a capacity of 170 hp. However, it cannot be said that the buyer ST220 each horse gets $ 180. The standard equipment of the car includes so many positions that if they were installed on the mentioned Mondeo 2.5, the price distance between the cars would not have seemed so large.
This thought confirms and a very modest list of options that you can definitely be Mondeo ST220. This, alas, is an unnecessary navigation system, telephone training, hatch, parking sensors, heating the nozzle nozzles, a more capacious battery and two more positions that caused us, frankly, bewilderment. This is a children's seat and an additional car key.
We would prefer a tablet, do not fit, kill! Still, the family in this Mondeo remains very little.
 
Text Grigory Mitin, photo Alexey Ilyin

Model/Modification Ford Mondeo ST220
The manufacturer Ford Motor Co, Sve Dept.
BODY
Type sedan
Number of doors/places 4/5
ENGINE
Basin type with multi -point injection
Front location, transversely
Working volume (cubic cub) 2967
Number/location of cylinders 6/V-shaped
Power, kW (L.S.) at about./Min. 166 (226) at 6150
Moment (nm at about./Min.) 280 at 4900
TRANSMISSION
Front drive
The gearbox is mechanical, five -speed
SUSPENSION
Front/rear independent, spring, such as MacPherson/independent, multi -link, reptile stabilizer
STEERING
Type gear rack with a hydraulic booster
Brakes
Front/rear disk, ventilated/disk
ABS four -channel, EBD, ESP, ASR
Dimensions/volumes/weight
Length/width/height (mm) 4731/1812/1414
Wheel base (mm) 2754
Own mass (kg) 1506
Fuel tank capacity (L) 58
Tires 225/40 R18
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km/h) 243
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 7.4
Economy
Average fuel consumption (l/100 km) 10.2
The price in Moscow from $ 34.5 thousand.
Additional equipment and special equipment
Battery 71 ah $ 75
PARK-Pilot PARCTRONIC (rear) $ 455
Additional key $ 50
Heating of washer nozzles $ 190
Hard electric lump $ 765
Electroregulation of the front passenger seat $ 125
Integrated children's seats $ 265
Preparation for the phone $ 400
Navigation system $ 1660

 

A source: "Autopilot"