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#17
10-10-2002, 03:52 PM
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Very nice! I bet the ladies just swarm to you with that one, eh?
 You have the exact same stereo head unit my mom has in her car, the 6-disc in dash changer... I think that's neat how you can flip around the Ford badge on the grill, and I presume there is a good release there? It's kinda like old Crown Vic's and stuff did with the trunks, you could flip around the badge and reveal the keyhole....
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10-10-2002, 04:54 PM
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Thanks for the comments.
In answer to the questions: The Mondeo ST retails in NZD 47,500 that's about Stg14,250 or about USD22,325. I didn't pay that much for it but it's a ballpark figure. I meant to explain about the badge on the grille - Heep is as usual very observant. The badge swivels to reveal a keyhole as there isn't an internal release so you can't open the hood without the key. Other things I meant to note... There's engine bay bracing between the two suspension towers (ie what some folk often refer to as a 'strut bar') and this is also braced against the firewall. The wheels are standard as 17 inch on the ST (there is a dealer fit 18 inch option too) and they run Continental Sport Contact 2. The rear end of the Mondeo Sedan and Liftbacks run a multi-link IRS - but the wagon's (or estates) run a double wishbone design which I think were the first to feature elements of the 'control blade' design. The NZ Mondeos are assembled in Glenk, Belgium and have a fairly unique specification. The range here consists of 2 litre Mondeo Wagon, Mondeo Sedan, Mondeo Zetec (liftback), Mondeo Zetec Wagon, Mondeo Ghia (liftback) and the 2.5 litre Mondeo ST (liftback). The Duratec-VE V6 is manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio and is from the same family as the engines in the Taurus, Cougar, Escape and the Jaguar X-Type (although with different capacities and valvetrains). The ST has what is called a 'RapidSpec' body kit - which consists of a different front and rear bumper, the side-skirts and raised lip spoiler on the end of the liftback deck. This is unique to the range in NZ although the rear lip spoiler is standard on the Ghia model and an option on the Zetec models (which confusingly are powered by the 4 cylinder Duratec-HE not the Zetec-E which powered the 4 cylinder variants in the previous models).
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