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After being round these fora for a while, you see people agonising over what car to choose after having a Puma, standard or special edition. Trying to find that balance of sheer fun, performance and cost of ownership can be a hard decision once you've had a Puma for a while (the same one for 4 years in my case) I remember Rob (XIIVVX) mentioning once that he felt he had to go in a slightly different direction once he sold #0296 as nothing else seemed to come close. I think I've gone a similar way.
I spent weeks trawling though countless websites and publications reading up on all sorts of cars from Alfa Romeos to Volkswagons : We went to look at a few this last weekend from Leicester all the way up to Leeds. We then happened upon one not 5 minutes from Cherie's parents near Burton that ticked all the boxes.
It's a 2006 Mondeo ST TDCi 2.2L in Performance Blue. 54000 miles with Full Service History. It's standard spec list is huge but also has the optional lovely 8 way electronic adjusted Recaros as well as a double DIN Sat-Nav / Multimedia centre & rear parking distance sensors.
Stopped off on the way home for a drink and a few photos:
On the way home:
Standard power figures are 155PS with 266 lbft torque (295 lbft on overboost at full throttle) My first mod was to be a decat but it's already got one! So should make about 165PS / 315 lbft max at the moment. I'll eventually most likely be getting a >Roveron box< as well which should boost it up to about 180+ PS with 330+ lbft torque. And all the while getting 50-60mpg on trips to Scotland.
Get it to 1800rpm in 3rd and floor it and the world goes backwards at an alarming rate.
I spent weeks trawling though countless websites and publications reading up on all sorts of cars from Alfa Romeos to Volkswagons : We went to look at a few this last weekend from Leicester all the way up to Leeds. We then happened upon one not 5 minutes from Cherie's parents near Burton that ticked all the boxes.
It's a 2006 Mondeo ST TDCi 2.2L in Performance Blue. 54000 miles with Full Service History. It's standard spec list is huge but also has the optional lovely 8 way electronic adjusted Recaros as well as a double DIN Sat-Nav / Multimedia centre & rear parking distance sensors.
Stopped off on the way home for a drink and a few photos:
On the way home:
Standard power figures are 155PS with 266 lbft torque (295 lbft on overboost at full throttle) My first mod was to be a decat but it's already got one! So should make about 165PS / 315 lbft max at the moment. I'll eventually most likely be getting a >Roveron box< as well which should boost it up to about 180+ PS with 330+ lbft torque. And all the while getting 50-60mpg on trips to Scotland.
Get it to 1800rpm in 3rd and floor it and the world goes backwards at an alarming rate.
