There are rare fast Fords, and then there are rare fast Fords...
Despite an association with and history of almost every performance car niche on the planet - from hot hatch to supercar, muscle car to sports coupe - Ford and fast estates don’t have quite the same track record. It’s odd too, because they’ve definitely co-existed , yet seldom do you put the Blue Oval and mega wagons together.
Seemingly it was even true at the time of the Mondeo ST200. The overwhelming majority of the cars made were hatchbacks, because that was the one that looked like the touring car and offered plentiful practicality already. Moreover, the standard Mondeo estate could be had with a V6, if required and there were rivals out there with lots of useful turbo torque. We might love the idea nowadays, yet there wasn’t a tremendous appetite for the ST200 wagon at the turn of the century. 25 years later.
It isn’t perfect, of course. Even in another 20 years, 175,000 won’t seem especially low mileage, so anyone with hopes of bagging a barely used minter best look elsewhere. Hopefully the ST200 lived the life a fast estate should, taking lots of people and things to lots of faraway places, making a nice noise in the process and travelling more than fast enough. It also doesn’t have an MOT right now, and the last ticket expired in 2020. Which is quite a long time ago.
Furthermore, what MOT history there is looks encouraging, with lots of green, several first-time passes without advisories during the 2010s and no mention of rust. The Mondeo is likely to need some fettling to bring it back to its best, but not a total recommissioning. Seems to present well enough in the pics, too; the rear arches aren’t brilliant, but find a Ford of this era with good ones.
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