I just think u are funny, that's all about marketing tactics

butthurt i guess.

101% agree. Butthurt. Like Forte 4 speed owners COMPLAINT when Forte 6 speed out. LIKE Lancer GT Complaint when Inspira OUT. Like 2001 Kia Carnival owners who paid RM160k COMPLAINT when NAZA Ria launched 2 yrs later Priced RM60k Cheaper...

And the Butthurt stories goes on...

actually, don't even need to look at ABT
the same engine is doing 180hp in the polo GTi
but then with the same logic, shouldn't the cross touran buyers complain too as the same 1.4 engine is giving less HP in it compared to the golf and polo GTi

Oh, btw. VW for example offers their 1.4 TSI with maybe 115 hp, 140 hp, 160 hp, 170 hp... depending on the car and how much you are willing to spend. Each step higher will add maybe RM 4k...

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This post has been edited by dinwaja: Apr 26 2012, 12:12 AM

At least they did not price it the same as the older tune.
New car is more expensive partly because of the tune also.

Tunes costs money: engineers, testers, marketers, assembly lines...

is this a solid info or just your personally opinion?

To my concern, I've been hearing lots of Mondeo owners are complaining like me now. We are considered as new car owners too, under the same model launching. And to my understanding, they can't claim of price increase due to more horses and performance. It has been the currency exchange and also probably some hardware changes such as the moon roof and the passenger electric seat, but not the engine related changes. I'm telling them to tear down the roof nor the seat and change the new ones for me. If they do claim to me as such the engine caused the asking value increment, I would argue that the engine has totally now hardware changes nor anything that is affecting the value, nor their warranty coverage. The 2nd batch of engines only gone under some tunings, which Ford has finally go with the more aggressive settings globally which the engine is designed for.

A good news actually, superchip has finally released the tuning for the Ecoboost 2.0l in Malaysia, which will tune the engine to 250hp and 350NM for only RM2200. It is entirely software based, no modification needed.



This post has been edited by precsmo: May 15 2012, 05:02 PM

Hi to all Mondeo, how was the car after owning for 2 or 3 years now?
headache with maintenance ?
any small glitch?
Fuel consumption?

Appreciate your brief review or at least clue to search more review. Thank you very much.