Test drive Ford Mondeo sedan since 2007 sedan

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The feeling of a new car, which succumbs to a verbal description, can only be erased after a trip to another new car

It was precisely this kind of forgetfulness that once again decided to sneake the European Ford division, organizing a riding presentation of a new version of Mondeo on the roads of Germany.
   

4328 Mondeo was bought by Russians for the first half of 2010.

   

The driver’s workplace, although it has changed in terms of design, is unambiguously recognized as Fordovskoye.
 

I must say that a car with a Ford nameplate is perceived in a completely different way with us in Europe. If in Russia, say, Japanese brands in the generally accepted consumer scale of values \u200b\u200bare higher than the descendants of the brainchild of Henry Ford, then for a resident of the eurozone Ford seems to be a respected local brand, deserving much more food than all sorts of Japanese no matter how bizarre the addictions of the aborigines seem to be slowly moving towards premium. Designers tried to give the appearance of the new Mondeo more high cost and sports. However, not to the detriment of recognition: a small, but beautiful name Kinetic design continues to remain on the agenda.

The new model boasts an increased size of the lower part of the false radiator grate, which has a trapezoidal shape. The upper part of this mesh has already become. The muzzle of the car acquired integrated LED running lights. Changes found on the lateral projection of the car are also designed to add the image of the car of high cost. Fords with the help of chrome decorative elements visually made the body more pressed to the ground. A sportingly charged image now impresses both boys and girls, whether the novelty is also unambiguously recognized as mondeo from behind. But, as they say, there is a nuance. It is enough to focus on the rear blocks of the machine to understand: they not only noticeably grew compared to a similar part of the predecessor model, but also received additional LED light sources.
   

The system of controlling the dead zones on the sides of the machine migrated to Mondeo from the VOLVO S-MAX preceding it.


Usually a person, when he gets into the salon of a new car for himself, first of all pays attention to the dashboard. Because of this, some shades of impressions pass by consciousness. And your correspondent, for example, trying, as one of the leaders of one of the revolutions recommended, to go his own way, fundamentally first got behind the wheel of the studied machine with closed eyes. So, we sit in the driver's seat, pull ourselves with your left hand in the direction of the open door in the void hand almost immediately stumbles upon something smooth, strongly resembling a pen. Not bad! We slamize and start feeling the improvised interior. Steering wheel. Ergonomic form, but without special frills. A strong middle peasant is definitely! O! And the finish here is very, very good quality! Having laid the hand over the steering wheel on the front panel and with a light palpation of the growing plastic, you involuntarily recall the sensations gleaned in the salons of cars from the eminent originally German brands. We go further under the right hand, climate control regulators, this is probably the music-navigation so far everything is quite positive here is the KP handle from the point of view of the intuitive-tactile perception of any crime is found ... It is time to open your eyes. The gaze rests on the dashboard. Incorrect form of the edging and suggests itself on a compliment about non -standard and designer frills. The tidy was completely updated. Traditional Ford features, of course, are preserved, but refreshed them pretty. Mondeo top configurations can be equipped with such models of S-Max and Galaxy options as a system of monitoring of blind zones, speed limiter, blocking the rear doors for children's safety, a rear view camera, and a warning system for leaving the occupied lane with a warning function driver and automatic control of high light. However, it is not planned to supply the last two lotions to Russia. In our directions, they will most likely be inoperative. At the request of the client, they can be installed, but there will be few real help from them.

In the interior of Mondeo, the LED lighting of the salon, an advanced audio system and Russified satellite navigation first appeared. Melomanians will be able to listen to music using the new optional Ford Premium Sound audio system with an eight-channel amplifier with a total capacity of 265 watts and a completely new acoustic system with a central speaker in the dashboard and a 17-inch subwoofer in the luggage compartment.
   

The presence of a rear view camera in the list of options has already become a kind of sign of a good tone not only for class D cars. But the system that determines the driver overwork and persistently offers to relax is innovation for Mondeo.
 

It so happened that the phrase of Germany’s road in the minds of most of our compatriots is tightly associated with the concept of the absence of speed restrictions. Another cliche related to the German road network is the ideal smoothness of literally each meter of the last line. Therefore, any of ours, for the first time on the roads of this country, experiences a feeling of disappointment of one degree or another. After all, even here, you can drive for all money far from everywhere. Much more often areas with a limitation of 120 km/h. And secondary roads may well demonstrate to the naive Russo tourist way to pain in the coccyx of asphalt patches. Although you, of course, you won’t find frank pits here, we managed to test the Ford Mondeo both on the autobahn and on the village tracks. By the way, for the future: do not be surprised if you see here neatly paved ruts around some corn field. These paths are designed only for burgher agricultural machinery ...

   

In the second row, as in any business class self-respecting, the three of them can be safely accommodated.
 

And Mondeo can now be equipped with a modernized 2-liter Ford Motor of the Ecoboost family: this turbocharged unit now gives 240 horses 40 more than the old version. However, no one removes the 200-horsepower motor from the agenda.
   

Options for transforming the rear seats are quite standard. The absence of a hatch in the back of the seat can disappoint the ski lover.
 

Both 2.0-liter eco-busts are aggregated only with a six-speed robotic POWERSHift KP with double clutch. The box turned out to be successful: its work is almost indistinguishable from the behavior of similar aggregates of pioneers of two-disc robot construction. In addition to the Ford gasoline, he also settled under the hoods of his Mondeo new two -hundredth Duratorq TDCI two -hundredth turbodiesel. According to company representatives, he consumes only 6 liters of diesel fuel per 100 km of mileage in a mixed cycle. In relation to our test drive, the cycle turned out to be not very mixed, and therefore it did not work out to check the branded data. But it was possible to grab the autobahn, as they say, for all the money and slightly sly rubber on rural roads in the vicinity of Munich. In both cases, Mondeo left the impression of just a very good car. At the speeds of 180200 km/h, when many competitors of classmates of famous brands begin to clearly hint the driver, they say, it would be nice to slow down, because the supply of controllability of the machine is rapidly falling with every kilometer per hour, the brand new Mondeo calmly makes it clear that everything is under control. In high-speed turns on a European-fingered rural rural paths, a not particularly experienced driver at the wheel of this car can even feel like a Sebastian Loeba, he is so on the asphalt and obedient in corners. A considerable merit in this belongs to a pendant equipped with a system of change in stiffness. The difference in the behavior of the machine in the suspension settings in comfort and sport modes, of course, is unprincipled, but in corners it is captured clearly.

In short, any serious complaints about the updated Ford Mondeo cannot be formulated. However, some particularly bright highlight in it is unlikely to be able to find. In general, Ford Europe got a normal, in German, solid and balanced just a car.


We thank Ford Europe for organizing a test drive and cars provided for a test.


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Strictly speaking, it is difficult to name the first appearance of the first appearance in the public of the new Ford Mondeo, which took place at the Moscow Auto Show-2010. Last year, the world was a new Ford S-Max minivan, traditionally built on the same base with Mondeo. The stylistics of both interiors and exterior of these machines has always been distinguished only by the nuances associated with different types of bodies. Therefore, having already been driving a fresh S-Max, there were no special expirins from acquaintance with Mondeo. However, the hope for the already mentioned shift of the sensation of a new car was present and, by and large, was justified.


SPECIFICATIONS

Ford Mondeo New

* Dimensions (mm) 4850x186x1500

* Wheel base (mm) 2850

* Road clearance (mm) 130

* The volume of the trunk (L) 550

* Mass (kg) 1569

* Slave. engine volume (cm3) 2000

* Max. Power (L.S.) 203

* Max. Speed \u200b\u200b(km/h) 232

* Acceleration 0100 km/h (c) 7.9

* Fuel consumption (l/100 km) 7.7

* Price (rub.) From 689,000

 

 

Source: Mkobil magazine [October/2010]