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Cool new car!
Well, Sasq wants us to talk about these things 
It may not be cool to some but to me it is, as I will shortly be taking delivery of a car very similar to this one:
Its a new model Ford Mondeo Estate, 1.8TDCi Zetec 6spd 125PS with extras including parking assist, rear spoiler and BT/voice control.
Not quite a year old, 8,500 miles and £7000 ( or 1/3) less than the new price. Comes with 2 years remaining warranty and full AA cover. Road Tax is ~£135 (vs £185 for the old car) and fuel economy is way better, probably approaching 50% (slightly offset by the extra 10p per litre for diesel). The old car is 7.5yo 2l petrol modeo with 71k on the clock and probably a lot more on the engine.
There was an alternative with the sports pack for an extra £375, but that includes privacy glass which was also on the model we test-drove and we really didn't like it. The sports pack also gets you the rear spoiler (dealer adding for us) and increases the alloys from 16" to 17". I don't see the benefit of that and new tyres will cost more.
All I have to do now is pay for it!
T
It may not be cool to some but to me it is, as I will shortly be taking delivery of a car very similar to this one:
Its a new model Ford Mondeo Estate, 1.8TDCi Zetec 6spd 125PS with extras including parking assist, rear spoiler and BT/voice control.
Not quite a year old, 8,500 miles and £7000 ( or 1/3) less than the new price. Comes with 2 years remaining warranty and full AA cover. Road Tax is ~£135 (vs £185 for the old car) and fuel economy is way better, probably approaching 50% (slightly offset by the extra 10p per litre for diesel). The old car is 7.5yo 2l petrol modeo with 71k on the clock and probably a lot more on the engine.
There was an alternative with the sports pack for an extra £375, but that includes privacy glass which was also on the model we test-drove and we really didn't like it. The sports pack also gets you the rear spoiler (dealer adding for us) and increases the alloys from 16" to 17". I don't see the benefit of that and new tyres will cost more.
All I have to do now is pay for it!
T
The system (Kenwood dnx8220bt) only supports the mic for phone use though (unlike for instance the Pioneer Avic F900bt, which I first had my eye on; but it has numerous bugs and apparently only the US version supports speech commands). My parent's car (Volvo 850) also has seperate left-right airco controls, but I don't think they use it that often with different left/right settings.
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