Ford Mondeo BTCC: You Know You Want To
What's better than one Super Touring V6 Mondeo? Two of them!
Bring back the 90s!
BTCC fans will all have their favourite era, the years growing up where the drivers were their idols and the cars as cool as any Ferrari. For me that was the late 90s, just catching the Super Tourers before the 2001 rule change. Rydell, Aiello, Menu et al in Vectras, S40s, Primeras, Accords and more. Arguably the mid-90s were even better but it was pretty fantastic for me.
So to see a pair of cars from the era for sale is especially exciting. The Mondeo was always notable in the BTCC for having a V6; the four-cylinder cars screaming to over 8,000rpm were cool but a V6 was something else again, even when you're nine. Need a reminder? See here.
Some great names on there
Looking over these now it's easy to forget how specialised the Super Tourers were. See how low and far back the driver sits, the amount of carbon everywhere and the incredible stance, wheels jammed right in the arches. There's even a load of spares with them too so there's no excuse not to drive.
Even more encouraging is that there is a championship for these cars; the Super Touring Trophy runs alongside the BTCC at certain events, giving the cars from 1991-2000 a chance to stretch their legs. Failing that, they would surely be brilliant on test days and hill climbs, as chassis number two has been used for recently. What better way to enjoy being very wealthy than arriving at a track with a mate and your own BTCC Mondeo? They're only being sold as a pair after all...
FORD MONDEO BTCC
Price: £250,000
Why you should: A racer from a great era of touring cars. Two of them!
Why you shouldn't: £250K for two Ford Mondeos
See the original advert here
[Source: STT]
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Brilliant cars all of them, wish I'd been old enough to appreciate them when they were racing.
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Brilliant cars all of them, wish I'd been old enough to appreciate them when they were racing.
Anyone know the purpose of the solid rear wheels shown in the linked video? Always thought they looked awesome...even though the Mk2 Mondeo was hideous, the front looking like a froggy Scorpio that'd been sat on by an elephant.
The bit that's got really interesting to me has been the sheer amount of cheating that's been discovered since these got into private hands and the race parts could be compared to the production bits they were supposed to be based on; not just the 'production' shells and panels that were actually completely different but using completely different engine castings where the only bit that actually matched the proper part was the ID numbers (e.g. the Audi heads, but *not* something clever like the modified Volvo ones). The whole scrutineering process must have been bent as most of it was obvious with a side by side comparison.
The bit that's got really interesting to me has been the sheer amount of cheating that's been discovered since these got into private hands and the race parts could be compared to the production bits they were supposed to be based on; not just the 'production' shells and panels that were actually completely different but using completely different engine castings where the only bit that actually matched the proper part was the ID numbers (e.g. the Audi heads, but *not* something clever like the modified Volvo ones). The whole scrutineering process must have been bent as most of it was obvious with a side by side comparison.
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