Farewell to the Fiesta

[BigFatCat]

After a think about stuff, given a dreary commute, national football to travel to and the need for a bigger car, I finally traded my ickle Fiesta Z-S in.:crying:

I had some interest in private sales, but was scanning autotrader and I happened across the sort of car I was after locally, went to see it and got offered what I was looking for in part-ex.

A week later, my Fiesta was sadly waved goodbye to and trundled home in a 55 plate 2L TDCi Mondeo. It's the size of a small planet but a great drive and giving me over 50mpg on the rattle up the A33 and M4 of a morning.
The climate control has been a real boon of late and I'm very aware of the torque available when you shift late in 3rd and 4th. Plenty of poke in 6th to overtake too.

It's in platinum silver, which is a silver gold in layman's terms, not the best but with a cavern for a boot, suits me fine. No wonder it was a Top Gear car of the year.

[T-Bag]

That age mondeo is when they turned good. The shape is nice, decent size engine. All the top gear guys agree it's a good car (and that is rare).

[Penfold]

I remember reading an article saying that if you took out all subjectivity, emotion and marque-loyalty in car buying then everyone would be driving a two-year old Ford Mondeo.

In that time they've depreciated nicely, they're cheap and easy to run and repair and go on for ever.

:thumbsup2: