My New Ford Mondeo
1 March 2009 22:14
I just got my new car today – a Ford Mondeo 1.8TDCi Zetec. It was actually delivered on Friday 27th February, but as it’s on a “09″ plate and was registered from 1st March I wasn’t able to collect it until today.
I got up early and drove through to Darlington with Katie. (It’s the first time Katie has seen where I work). She loved the ride to work, especially the country lane between Bradbury and Darlington – we passed three farms and saw a field full of sheep! We left the Ford Fiesta that I’d borrowed in the company car park and got in my new vehicle. I spent a few minutes finding all the little cubby holes, my favourite being the overhead glasses case! I also messed around with the stereo and paired my Bluetooth phone.
We drove home via the A19 and put the cruise control to the test. It’s a much nicer drive than my old car and I think it will be a pleasure to drive to work, for a while at least!
Here’s the details of the model I went for:
- Ford Mondeo
- 5 Door
- Zetec
- 1.8 Duratorq TDCi 125ps
- Durashift 6-Speed Manual
- Panther Black Metallic
(N.b. Thanks to Northgate, the vehicle hire company that I work for, without whom I would still be driving around in my T-reg Citroën Xsara!)
3 Responses to “My New Ford Mondeo”
How come Northgate didn’t give you a van? You could have had an A-Team livery and gone around on the jazz helping the repressed – kind of selfish if you ask me.
Well, it’s got voice control built in so I could adopt a Michael Knight-style persona and become a car-driving, crime-fighting vigilante. Except that instead of telling my car I need to release an oil slick or be ejected to the top of a large building, I’ll be telling it to make the air in the car a bit cooler
Can you call it LiteRider then?
Care to comment?