Saturday, April 28, 2012

New Ford Mondero-Zhisheng impressive powertrain and Fuel efficiency - Test drive by Chinese Media


Ford's Mondeo-Zhisheng lived upto the expectations of Chinese media thus delivering a huge respect in turn for the Michigan based automaker. A total of 19 persons from Chinese media which included local newspapers, websites and TV stations from Wuhan, Changsha, Nanchang and Zhengzhou – attended the test drive in Wuhan, the capital of central Hubei province, on October 12-13. It followed two fleet test drives in Qingdao and Tianjin.

The event named "More Power-Less fuel" was aimed at living upto consumes expectations and was divided into three sessions: product introduction, a fuel efficiency contest, and a vehicle display and photo shoot. "Though it is a 2.0L model, it has a much better fuel efficiency than competitors of the same class," said Liu Donglin from the Xiaoxiang Morning Post. It delivered a mileage of 7.9 L/100km.

The Mondeo-Zhisheng is the first vehicle in the Asia Pacific and Africa region equipped with the new Ford EcoBoost GTDi engine and PowerShift dual clutch transmission, both of which delivered beyond expectations in the fuel efficiency contest

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