Sleeper power?

L-M

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Ford/Mondeo/3.0I-V6-/200840190274460/advert

0-62 in 7.9seconds.
202bhp and 280 nm of torque.

All that in a Mondeo?

Probably one of the most unsaleable cars in Ireland too, but besides that.

bazz26

Limerick man wrote: »

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Ford/Mondeo/3.0I-V6-/200840190274460/advert

0-62 in 7.9seconds.
202bhp and 280 nm of torque.

All that in a Mondeo?

Probably one of the most unsaleable cars in Ireland too, but besides that.

€16K is laughable, they have that car along time and at that price will have it for a long time to come. Probably as difficult to shift as an unregistered Alfa 156 GTA. :pac:

Saying that I would not mind having a little test drive.

Owen

3 litres and all they can get out of it is 202 Bhp? I would have expected more torque from that sort of displacement too. But I've always had a soft spot for Mondeos, pity the road tax is so punitive on that car though, otherwise it would be an interesting purchase.

L-M

bazz26 wrote: »

€16K is laughable, they have that car along time and at that price will have it for a long time to come. Probably as difficult to shift as an unregistered Alfa 156 GTA. :pac:

Saying that I would not mind having a little test drive.

Trade the Focus in?

JimmyCrackCorn!

It rather have a volvo t5

bazz26

Limerick man wrote: »

Trade the Focus in?

I'd want money with the Focus.

If I was in the in the market for a 3.0 litre Mondeo it would have to be the ST220.

SV

I was expecting those to be far quicker..

that's a bit disappointing really!


nice car though.

cjt156

Pah!
Would be sh@t upon by the Mondeo 'ST' TDCi that I saw on the M50 yesterday:rolleyes:

Anan1

Here's 0-60 in 5.3 seconds for the same money : http://www.driving.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=1332089:)

Ferris

Anan1 wrote: »

Here's 0-60 in 5.3 seconds for the same money : http://www.driving.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=1332089:)

And the tax is lower, incidently there is an '07 Forrester XT up in Merlin, looks nice:

http://www.merlincarauctions.ie/finance_catalogue.php?page=1&dir=DESC&action=searchresults&per_page=10&vehiclesadded=all&sort=makeandmodel&id_make=29&id_model=&year_min=&year_max=&Find=Find+%3E%3E&id_listing=392668&action=viewCarDetails

Victor_M

On a slightly separate note it looks like this 7 series put up quite a fight as it was being repossessed.

Notch000

my pugeot 306 does 0-60 in 7.0 secs, 140mph & costs about 3.5K, and it looks like a 306, now thats a sleeper.
That mondeo is crap, 202bhp 16K, 1.5/2K annual Tax for a mondeo HA HA

Matt Simis

If only the blind could drive, they would be in Foresters. Hits all the right check boxes but shape.

On sleepers, you can pick up Audi S4s for under £5k in the UK, VRT is about EUR1.2k. Remaps to 320bhp easy.

Anan1

Matt Simis wrote: »

If only the blind could drive, they would be in Foresters. Hits all the right check boxes but shape.

Tony Broke

05 and on 2.0t Octavia VRS are faster, more economical, cheaper to tax,very sellable and highly tuneable.

cjt156

Victor_M wrote: »

On a slightly separate note it looks like this 7 series put up quite a fight as it was being repossessed.

What that ad needs is more pictures.

ninty9er

cjt156 wrote: »

What that ad needs is more pictures.

:D

L-M

ned78 wrote: »

3 litres and all they can get out of it is 202 Bhp? I would have expected more torque from that sort of displacement too. But I've always had a soft spot for Mondeos, pity the road tax is so punitive on that car though, otherwise it would be an interesting purchase.

Apparently it's just a detuned version of the ST engine, so would a remap not help things along?

The ST diesel is 155bhp AFAIK.