Mk1 Mondeo. Save or scrap?

[Lord Sterling]

Get it bought lad. You know it makes sense. Quite a handsome looking car. It looks pretty solid too.

[RoadworkUK]

Predictably, I'm saying save.

 

"Ford's new family car hero barely puts a foot wrong" was what Autocar's review said. The journos went absolutely gaga over these things when they were released. I seem to remember them thinking the 1.6 was a really sweet engine, albeit a little less than muscular.

 

It seems sad that the rest of the world have totally forgotten about them. Really tragic about that service history, though.

[trigger]

There's a early one hanging around in the London Science museum.

 

 

 

[Bren]

A question.

 

Did all petrol mondeos bhave the zetec or did some get the I4 twink out of the sierra/granada?

[greengartside]

All had the Zetec engines IIRC.

[Pete-M]

V6s were good when people used the right oil in them. Not fast but smooth and revved well.

 

Porsche design, dontcha know.

[Pillock]

That's a late Mk1, with fully colour coded bumpers. The early ones had a black top to them

[MrFarkinBasz]

Go on, save it.

 

Mk1 Mondeos always remind me of this little episode: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-110857472.html

[purplebargeken]

Save. Always nice to see a Mk1 on the road. I would have one myself. 

[In The Pit]

I'm on the #saveit bandwagon too,  I had a MKI back in 2004/2005 in Java Blue metallic with the blue interior was a lovely car to drive.  There was a very late (P reg) one still working as a taxi near where I live in 2012.  They don't rust like other Fords of that era either. The problem is they still look like a recent design despite the fact the newest is 19 years old,  most people still think of them as a modern, let's be fair some of us Autoshiters have only recently noticed their demise.

[New POD]

I was offered an MOT'd 4x4 mk1 mundaneo a good few years back, which was a works pool car, none running, (although did turn over) for £200. I wish I'd had the balls to buy it.

 

I remember hacking it around before then, and it had an awful clunk from the rear transmission.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I had a mk1 saloon, 1.8 lx

 

Sad thing is it was one of the best cars I ever owned and I still regret selling it

[JohnK]

I bought an M reg 1.8 GLX TD in 2007 for the princely sum of £70. I wanted the engine out of it to replace the knackered one in my MK2.

 

When I got it home the MK1 was too nice to bust, so I swapped the alloys off my Mk2 onto it and flogged that instead. I ran the Mk1 for 6 months and then sold it for £350.

 

I liked it so much I bought it back a year later. Really comfortable cars. The Mk1 TD's had a bigger turbo to the Mk2's as well and were much more responsive.

 

[New POD]

I bought an M reg 1.8 GLX TD in 2007 for the princely sum of £70. I wanted the engine out of it to replace the knackered one in my MK2.

 

When I got it home the MK1 was too nice to bust, so I swapped the alloys off my Mk2 onto it and flogged that instead. I ran the Mk1 for 6 months and then sold it for £350.

 

I liked it so much I bought it back a year later. Really comfortable cars. The Mk1 TD's had a bigger turbo to the Mk2's as well and were much more responsive.

 

 

 

I worked as an ME in the Garrett factory that made the turbo's for them. We charged Ford less than £80 IIRC back in 1998.

[Shep Shepherd]

Definitely save it. I reckon that early examples will have a certain nostalgia value pretty soon, if they haven't already

[srad34]

The Mk1's seemed to be better built than mk2's and 3's, the same applies to the first Focus imho, shame there are not so many left thesedays... 

I would have loved a Mk1 Mondy Ghia in Black with black leather, mmmmmmm 

[Cavcraft]

I have to say the ones we got out of the auctions didn't take long to find a buyer. The blue interior some had was absolutely gopping though, couldn't live with that on a daily basis.

[warren t claim]

The only downer on this is the fact that it's a hatch as I'd prefer a saloon.

 

I'll knock on her door later if I haven't heard anything but I am busy today getting the bodywork on my Mk4 Mondeo sorted!

[Station]

It's always nice to see these about, they were here and then they weren't. It doesn't seem like 23 years ago they came out new. There is always an Si parked round the corner from me:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.348006,-1.466761,3a,41.7y,340.59h,84.42t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sYqAHi4794OAVo-cDUK5awg!2e0

[fairkens]

The only downer on this is the fact that it's a hatch as I'd prefer a saloon.

 

I'll knock on her door later if I haven't heard anything but I am busy today getting the bodywork on my Mk4 Mondeo sorted!

Remember coveting the saloon from the days when BTCC was good, Mondeos, mk3 Cav, Alfa 155 etc

[oldcars]

Save it, like them, mate had one back in the day.

[warren t claim]

Saved! Agreed price with happy vendor. Collect tomorrow. Fuck knows what I'll do with it! Any takers?

[warren t claim]

Bought. Paid for. Insured. Not disappointed so far.

[cort16]

We need pictures

[andy18s]

We need pictures

We need a raffle

[purplebargeken]

Yeah, raffle.

 

Piccies a priority!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Scrap it. Mk1 Mondeo was a worse car than the Sierra which was a much worse car than the MK5 Cortina. Which was a lovely car. And worth saving any which are still about.

 

Oh dear.

 

There's always one!

[Cavcraft]

Any takers?

 

 

Just two minutes from J12 M53.

[John F]

The Reverend Bluejeans, on 26 Feb 2015 - 9:47 PM, said:

Oh dear.

 

There's always one!

 

Two, actually

[fordperv]

K plates are a spotters delight! I know of three...

 

Still plenty of L, M, and N platers still knocking about down here, saying that there are still quite a few J and K plate Sierra's doing the rounds.

You lucky fella knowing 3 k platers, i would love a k plate mondeo to live with my k plate saph.

 

I would definately save this one (even though it's not a k plate) if I was you 1.6 glx sounds a great combination, i remember at school in 1993 one of my mates dad's had a red k plate mondeo I didn't like it as much as my dad's 1990 red sierra hatch at the time