Mk4.5 Mondeo Titanium X Sport 2.2

[Xenoous]

Hi guys.

I'm looking at cars, as I constantly am, but I have this rather weird draw to the above. It almost seems like the perfect car. Practical, pokey, fun to drive, looks good and a really nice amount of kit inside. I enjoyed the last 2 Ford's I owned, and thinking I might jump back in one. I appreciate it wont be as fun or engaging to drive as my current car (Megane RS 265), but I'm starting to like the idea of a bigger, more comfortable quick(ish) barge.

If there's any owners on here, what are they actually like to live with? Is the 2.2 a good engine? Anything to look out for regarding reliability? I'd like to get it mapped to 230-240bhp, but not actually do anything else to it, if thats possible.

Decent lower mileage cars seem to command 7-9k, with Estates demanding 9-11k. Seems like they've been caught up in the wacky second hand car market. Is this an extreme price to pay for one of these? I'd ideally want the an Estate in white or silver, but I have no interest in overpaying.

Cheers.

[stevemcs]

I’ve had mine just over a year, I wouldn’t say it’s pokey, it’s a good motorway car but mine being the auto it can be a little clunky. Mpg is poor around 25mm, it tows the white box well enough but I’d swap it for the mk5 if I could find a decent petrol version

[Whistle]

I sold mine due to the poor MPG, it was the 2.2 titanium x sport auto.

It was an ex demo car with every single option. It was a nice car though.
I replaced it with a jag XF R-sport 2.2 and I didn’t look back. The jag did loads more MPG.

[Xenoous]

I'm very conscious about 'overpaying' for one. Reading through previous threads and posts, people were able to pick these cars up relatively cheap pre-covid, so paying upwards of £8,000 for one seems daft.

I'd only consider the manual so not too concerned about the auto. Unfortunately the 2.0 petrol uses the PowerShift box, so I don't intend on going down that route, after having the expense of a gearbox issue with my current car, I'd like to steer clear of any potential failures. The 2.0 just seems a little underpowered, so the 2.2 is the happy medium.

I'm in 3 minds... Keep my current car, pull the plug on a seemingly nice TXS, or go shedding in something much cheaper. Decisions decisions...

Edited by Xenoous on Tuesday 27th September 16:30

[Whistle]

This was mine back in the day.

[stevemcs]

That would be mine

[Howard-]

I had a 2010 2.0 Ecoboost with the Powershift box. It did me proud for 7 years. It's not as refined as VW's DSG box but if you service it on time, it's known to be fairly reliable. It's the stronger wet-clutch variant, rather than the troublesome dry clutch one fitted to Focuses/Fiestas (and notorious in the USA)

[Xenoous]

I'm just not sure I dare risk it now after experiencing gearbox issues this year. If the 2.0 petrol was available with a manual, I'd snap one up immediately. I'm still looking daily, but not found anything yet.

[meridian]

This is our one. A 2012 2.2 TDCi (200ps) Titanium X, but very unusually not a Sport, and I believe this model was dropped around 2012....

Fitted with the 19" alloys and uprated suspension

It's done 79K and I've just had the 10 year cambelt and waterpump service completed

I honestly think it's a superb car. Very well built, solid, refined, and pretty quick when wound up. Our's is a manual and the motor is super lazy and effortless. Everything dynamically is excellent, as so often the case with modern Fords....So, super slick gearbox, communicative steering, excellent ride quality, flat and grippy roadholding

It's a (nice) runaround car for us who need the space, and these Mk4.5 Mondeos are capacious. Fuel economy, as others have said, not where it should be; only 30ish on short trips. Nevertheless, I'd definitely recommend one, it does everything we need it to, and it looks pretty smart too

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