Test drive Ford Mondeo sedan since 2007 sedan

Balls-rollers

I was lucky to get to the Champions League final 2007. In my opinion, Liverpool played better, and Pippo was in Offsade, well, not about that. During the warm -up of the players on the scoreboard, they twisted a video with the new Ford, in which citizens get rid of their cars for the sake of Mondeo, tied balls to them and watching how they fly to the sky. Even before the start of the match, there was a show: acrobats jumped, thin -tower children laid out in intricate geometric figures, but in the end they launched a lot of balloons into the sky. Probably, not alone, at that moment, I waited for them to tie some cars out of fashion.
Mondeo advertising - it will probably be twisted this month and on our television - turned out to be lively, light and even frivolous. Well, not like, of course, like one Italian manufacturer who was circling with daring posters the vulgar life of the average Russian with his familiar Modus Vivendi - Puzo, NOT, Boredom, Mother -in -law ... But, in general, the video still seems too lively For such a seemingly sedate car, like Mondeo, and for its target audience, just consisting, it would seem, it would seem, of those who have a belly, etc. ..
 
In fact, advertising is a reflection of realities. And the new Mondeo is not such a sedate car as before, and its audience seems to be ready to shake the berries in the buttocks. I ask you to particularly notice: the author’s opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the same author, let him be able to ride a Mondeo with a 1.6 liter engine with a capacity of 125 hp. And Ambiente, not on Mondeo with a 2.5-liter turbo engine and a GHIA set with a X-package. But the author got the most energetic and rich option.
 
Only its inner essence meets the concept of external kinetic design, the embodiment of energy in movement, as the Fords say. Automobile design is actually a thing. They say to you about a new machine, a new artistic word, and for some reason it seems to you that somewhere there are already such sides with a car with smoothed, as in army trousers, you have already seen arrows. However, I did not particularly zeal, bypassing Mondeo in a circle and looking for kinetics in design. In passing, I found only the loss of the famous Mondeo bagels - now the rear lights are not reminiscent of bagels, but by bee honeycombs. I did not strain anymore, remembering successfully how Mondeo designer Martin Smith at the Geneva salon explained to me that Mondeo was not iOSS and they were bought not with his eyes, but with his head.
It is assumed that I do not pursue external effects, I can count money and understand that $ 37,700 for such wealth as Mondeo Ghia is virtually for nothing. Mondeo Ghia - what to say there - the car is really rich. He has, for example, smart the key that does not even need to be removed from your pocket to open the door. Instead of the usual ignition lock - the engine start button. Mondeo (remember?) Buy their heads, and therefore the first thing we and I did a test drive, we checked it and what will happen if you put the car for transmission and start the engine with the button? Will the car stuck in a scale in a truck parked in front or not? I didn't stuck. The car is smart, it does not start on the program.
 
In our heads, there were enough balls and videos not to experiment in prohibitive modes with intellectual cruise control that withstanding the distance to the walking machine. We just took note that it is. And all. But we played with three modes -Comfort, Normal and Sport -intellectual suspension. The difference is not to say that it is completely conditional, but not cardinal. That is, you do not swim in Comfort, like the Cosmonub on the ISS, and in Sport you do not shake with the whole body, like an epileptic, when hitting asphalt pimples.
Sport in Mondeo is a sport of a person who does not give him the best part of his life, but organically alternates him with beer, barbecue and other household joys. Apexes of turns, flu on the front, etc. - This is all not his everyday life. Everything is simpler here: he pressed the gas harder, wiped his nose with some kind of milk and calmed down. Really glorious, wherever you put it - at least on Volvo, at least on Ford, - the 2.5t engine allows you to do all this without tearing ligaments and tendons. He has a maximum torque at 1,500 rpm, but picking up - at any point in the range. You can go in the hill in the hill and is quite easy to accelerate without switching to low. You can immediately switch to the sixth from the second gear - in a word, create almost anything with the motor. Paired with this engine, by the way, worth six -speed mechanics - for my taste, with a fairly long moves of the box of the box. The machine is not supposed to the machine, although it is asking here. The machine is available only with a 2.3-liter gasoline engine or a 130-horsepower diesel engine.
For insurance in turns - a set of auxiliary electronic systems. ESP can be disabled, especially since Mondeo and so behave very well at the speeds of the calm-physical education order. He is predictable, obedient, confused, does not creak, does not fidget, does not scare the sudden conflicts between his mechanical and electronic components. In my opinion, the desired accuracy of management interferes with an overly large size of the four -spoke steering wheel, sharpened under the arms of a person who is not like a small enterprise - life holds firmly under control. However, it is much easier to control the steering wheel than those keys that are located on it. This seems to be only possible for an octopus or graduate of Vladimir Shahijanyan to print on a typewriter with a ten -pall -plate blind method.
The interior of the salon performed by GHIA with wooden panels on the steering wheel, torpedo and doors, with a two-zone climate control, heated rear seats and front ventilation, with a large touch screen-this is almost the Jaguar XJ interior. For those who like a sports style, there is a Titanium option with metal trim. By the way, materials in the cabin do not cause allergies. In addition to samples for the toxic vapors, experts also conducted a dermatological test of the upholstery of seats, braids of steering wheel and rugs. In total, a hundred finishing materials were checked, on which the manufacturer makes a special emphasis and that I confess, it seemed much more important than, for example, overclocking characteristics. It’s strange all this, it seems, I don't have a belly yet ...
 
Ford mondeo 2.5t
 
The engine is gasoline
Working volume (l) 2.5
Power (L.S. at about/min) 220 at 5000
Moment (nm at rpm) 320 at 1500
Front drive
The gearbox is mechanical, 6-speed
Length/width/height (mm) 4844/1886/1500
Equipped mass (kg) 1492
Maximum speed (km/h) 245
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 7.5
Fuel consumption, average (l/100 km) 9.3
Price in Moscow $ 37,700
Abstracts after
1. According to designer Martin Smith, the buyer of Mondeo appreciates the beautiful, but nevertheless is not ready to sacrifice an extra centimeter in the cabin.
2. It seems that with the advent of the new Mondeo, one synonym has become more security. The standard set of the car includes adaptive cruise control and seven airbags, one of them protects the driver's knees.
3. The destiny of the rear passengers is to envy the front. Here the rear is quite comfortable to end a black feeling. Reading light bulbs, heating seats, lateral ventilation and lack of thoughts that you were pushed into the background.
4. The dignity of the stone is to roll and not grow in moss. It is better to freeze the car than to slide back. Mondeo, however, is not scary either thanks to the Hill Launch Assist rise system - in short, there will be no rollback.
 
Text Hassan Ganiev
Photo Ford Motor Company
 

Source: "Autopilot"