FORD MONDEO

September 27th, 2010 by Stephen | No Comments | Filed in Cars

Ford India is going to re-launch Ford Mondeo to India by the end of 2010. In 2002, Ford Motor Company planned to launch Mondeo in India but Mondeo wasn’t suitable for Indian road conditions and so due to this Mondeo didn’t get good response from the Indian automobile market. After a long time, Ford now re-framed their mind and plans to re-launch an improved version of Ford Mondeo in all aspects in India. Ford re-designed both the interior and exterior style and also the degree of comfort and safety level. So for these, the new version is called Ford Mondeo 2.0. The main (more…)

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Ford Figo test drive

March 27th, 2010 by Rider | No Comments | Filed in Cars, General, Reviews

Yesterday I went to a ford show room to check on my friends Fiesta which had an accident. I had an idea of test driving a ford figo also. After going the fiesta i went to the executive and asked for test drive. The car the gave me was titanium the high end diesel model.

Though it looked small the interiors where spacious. Actually it looks more like swift from the inside. The two tone interiors and the dash board gave a sporty look to the car. Dash had the speedo, odo and all the modern consoles which we can find in a modern day car.

I had the car turned on, with out any difficulty i was able to reverse the car and join the traffic. Riding through the traffic was very easy with its power steering,  but the turbo lag some times bugged me as i was used to old model petrol engines. Believe me I was flooring the accelerator in prime traffic yet the car never gave any sign of aggression(try at your own risk). After one kilometre I got a free-way. I shifted the gear and floored the accelerator after the initial lag figo just vroomed to 100 km/hr. Now I can say this diesel engine much more refined than any petrol engine in its class( ikon diesel have vibes even having the same engine).

At 100km/hr I wanted to test the ABS and EBD, i just slammed the brakes vehicle speed got down from 100 to 25. It never skidded and the vehicle was totally controllable thanks for the ABS and EBD. AC had quick cooling effect unlike the ikon and it was quite chilling after some time.

From my point of view this is the best hatch back in its segment. It is a strong competition to the swift, indigo,Vista etc.

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