Who owns a Mondeo ST220 / ST TDCI?

What he said.

The ride is spot on, and the seats are wonderfully comfortable. I never get out after any journey feeling stressed or tired unless I was before I started :p
 
All I will say is expect an average of 22 - 24mpg (less if you do mainly town mileage)

I bought mine under the impression that 26 - 28mpg was easily achievable (more if doing mainly motorway miles)
I can only get that sort of MPG if I drive it as if I was afraid of the go pedal :)

This is incorrect IMO. Yes if you do a lot of town driving you'll average 20-22mpg but if your driving is more of a "combined" cycle, you should average 25-27 depending on how much stop-start traffic there is. 35MPG is easily achievable on the motorway at 70mph.
 
Give me a set of deserted country roads and my MPG will dip into minus figures. Give me my regular daily work commute and I'll bimble along efficiently and comfortably with all the other traffic. Surely I can't be alone in this logic :p


In other news, Tuesday dispatch for 'zorst most likely :(
 
If your car only achieves 28MPG at 60mph then something is wrong with it. It's quite simple really. I appreciate that driving styles come in to play with these discussions often rendering them meaningless, but from what you have said above, that isn't the norm.
 
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Hosting on imgur doesn't help either as they compress images unless you have a pro account.

It isn't noticeable unless the image is over a certain size, so it's fine for most stuff. I put bigger images on my hosting as a rule anyway.

Most of the 'snapshots' I've taken with my phone, i.e. the wheels etc, I just resize to about 1000px wide in Photoshop and upload to Imgur. Others I take with my SLR process and export in Lightroom, resizing where necessary, and uploading to either imgur or my hosting.
 
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Full size from iPhone on imgur:

http://i.imgur.com/DlRO8Q3.jpg

Full size from iPhone on my own hosting:

www.hcanning.com/files/stbig1.jpg

Resized in Paint and hosted on Imgur:

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Resized in Paint and hosted on my own hosting:

stsmall1.jpg



Imgur's compression on smaller images makes no discernible difference. Rybo, feel free to email me the original image
 
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After all the MPG naysayery, I thought I'd do a bit of testing on the way home.


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This is the result of sitting at exactly an indicated 70 (about 67 in reality as verified by GPS) for the 7-mile stretch of M3, staying at this speed constantly. This photo was taken just as I was approaching the M25 junction after about 7 miles. The counter was reset just as I got up to speed after joining the motorway. The MPG rose to about 37.5 after joining the M25 and sitting at 55-60mph for a mile and a bit, then promptly dropped to about 32 as I hoofed it all the way through 2nd and 3rd gear when coming off the M25 onto the local dual carriageway ;). I then drove the ~2.5 miles through town with a bit of stop-start traffic before arriving at home with it showing 32.1MPG.

I didn't do anything special, I don't drive like a granny at 10mph below every speed limit, I don't slipstream lorries. I just keep my car well-maintained with the right tyre pressures and whatnot, drive gently, keeping up with traffic whilst looking ahead and anticipating what's happening.

I normally sit at 70-75 on the motorway but thought I'd rigorously stick to an indicated 70 for the purposes of this.
 
No, you're right, 35mpg on my display equates to probably nearer 34.5MPG in real terms.

I have no idea what you're on about, otherwise. If you can't crack 30mpg on a run at 60-70mph then something isn't quite right with your car. I'm not sure how you can not see this. I've even proven above that 35mpg isn't particularly difficult, and it still only dropped down to 32 after a couple of miles of town driving!

To me, 'on a run' means driving to a motorway, doing a comparatively long distance on said motorway, leaving the motorway, driving a handful of miles through a more urban setting and then arriving at your destination. Obviously if you do half an half motorway / town, then it'll be less, but that's pretty much what my daily commute is, and I still average 26-27mpg doing that.



The centre caps were about £60, and I'll probably recoup some of that back by selling my old ones. Yes, my jacking points occasionally come loose. They seem to bend over time, so I heat them up with a heat gun and bend them back. Solves the problem for a while.
 
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