Can our 21-year-old Ford still hit its original top speed?! 

That's what I thought! I bet you can enter the runway at at least 60-70 mph already if not more!

@@javiTests need Jeremy there shouting “SPEEEEEED” at the camera

@@leeneal6969 😂😂😂😂

yeah a pretty poor effort

@@javiTests exactly!!

Was a brand new build with less than 200miles driven, so redlining every gear was enough to blow it up.

@@TheNismo777 what???? 🤣 I've seen cars going from the shop to the dyno.

Flying start doesnt make a big difference though, to be fair.

I was thinking the same , could have got it up into 2nd before hitting the runway. My old Astra SRI 1.8 would keep up with that Mondeo.

The new video confirms you were right! Even though the guys at the shop supposedly had run it in...way to ruin a fresh engine!

This has aged BEAUTIFULLY

It certainly has

He'd do a better job than a Halfrauds 'technician'.

Certainly do it after Halfords have gone near it!!!😝😝😝

they've got to make $$$ from the video on top of the views and the ads they throw at you before watching.

@@trebm3 they've got to pay for the restoration that we've all enjoyed watching somehow

There's a thing called payed advertising.

Exactly that

It seems every video from this channel is just an advert. Waste of time.

Yes indeed why not U turn at the start of the runway - why is he doing a standing start not a rolling start - if he u turned in second he could easily see 140. This video was an awful Halfords advert - what a load of c@@p!!!

OR they could have used the BTCC car to tow the Mondeo by breaking up the air in front of it.

I vote for a trip to Germany, would love to see Mike dealing with aggressive drivers and cornering on the Autobahn at 140mph+

while it was 20 years ago, i do remember hitting MANY runs on the open highway in germany that were far in excess of 135mph

@@ghomerhust I do that quite often on my way to work, at least once or twice a week

... aaaand almost nobody does, only just before going to MOT...

I guess Halfords is for dummies who cannot do that?

@@andrewnorris5415 or lazy

The bonnet tends to get lifted once every 6 months. The wheel nuts were put on using an air tool. Nothing short of another air tool (which I have) will get them off.

🤣

That's exactly the time to check it. People did that restoration and people make mistakes. And I guarantee it wasn't a master tech who installed the rims and tires. It was the shop apprentice. I'd he checking everything as well

@@Maroco918 I knew someone was going to write that. I will make sure to get a Halfords Technician to pop round my house 3 days after I next have my tyres changed. 🙈

@@Maroco918 I'd rather the apprentice check over the work from halfords given what I've seen them let out the door back to the customer.

What's an advertisement?? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Did you watch the build, job they done was amazing. The roof lining is probably just a snagging list. And a small puff of smoke, jeez. Get over it.

@@johnstonlee was nothing small about that 'puff' of smoke. And if you would be happy with that after a so called rebuild your mental.

@@poolio_69 Cop on would ya? The engine only had a partial rebuild, so the short block still has many miles on it. There's nothing wrong with that quick puff of smoke on hard take off.

@@NathanFrench well my 218k mile old E46 330i would disagree. As would my old mans 268k St24. (Same engine)

It’s a Ford, they come that way from the factory.

Looks like an american ford now

Nice

@@richardharrold9736 they did say that it had been "run in already" I wonder how long it was run in for

@@richardharrold9736 piston rings don't need that many miles to bed in lol.

all cars smoke under full gas pedal

in what way knackered...?

@@RWL2012 Blue smoke from a supposedly run in engine. If it wasn't knackered before it is now.

They have actually ruined Mad Ford in their new episode about this car, looks like a horror show, basically tearing down an engine that has tried to eat itself… looks like they are trying to promote Hammonds new place and create content by dragging Mad Ford through the mud 🤦🏻‍♂️

Maybe not but it was well worth it to see the 2021 BTCC Halfords Type R there!

Wouldn’t take my bicycle there that’s for sure

What is Halford and why is it bad?

@@danielfl.9347 its a retailer in the uk that sell car parts, bicycles and motoring accessories. They do general garage work as well like oil, suspension, inspections and tyres etc. they’ve a bit of a reputation for being main stream generic and where kids go to buy loud exhausts and big wings.

@@GLH8 in the cycling community they’re a joke and are rightly avoided. Their techs don’t know what they’re doing

Yep. You nailed that comment........

I remember buying a new headlight bulb from halfords and the guy at the counter asked if I'd want them to fit it. My response was something along the lines of "I wouldn't trust you lot to change the batteries in my TV remote!"

I bought a light bulb from them recently and by the time I got home had an email asking to rate my purchase and how well they did. A light bulb for goodness sake!

Not to mention that they rip you off for the pleasure. They should stick to selling bicycles.

@@AWMJoeyjoejoe Next time bring in an old Renault Megane and tell him to knock himself out. (front wheel has to come off to gain access via the arch)

😔 👍🏻

@C. Fecteau-AU-MJ13 it is possible to make decent content while having and advert in the video rather than having some medicore content in the middle of your advert.

🤣. Truly an absolutely scummy video tbh. The car can't be classed as 21 years old and then the whole video is a big advert!

This would have to be the person who is the greedy one. Expects the world to bend at their knees to do what you want. maybe if you have them upwards of $10,000 maybe then you can talk. also it was not "Click Baity" the title was a question not a statement, seriously 🙄🙄

@@ThatRollerCoasterNerd Adding a question mark to a title makes it even MORE click-baity.

Rattle-can rebuild. :D

I'd imagine it's wd40 still being burnt off from the build.

Ford is an acronym for Found On the Roadside Dead

@@MaryjaneKush I know I'm not the biggest Ford fan myself but a freshly rebuilt engine will have non engine oils here and there and the first few pushes bearing a load will push that through.

@@mypinis There won't be any lubricants from the build left! He clearly said it was run in before this test🙄 Who on earth would go and run flat out with a freshly built engine? If you truely thought that, then I wouldn't want to buy a used car from you😎

And the front bumper was fitted poorly

Knackered rings plagued the 1.8 and 2.0l duratec as they aged, killed so many mondeos with otherwise decent body's. I drive a V6, they are bullet proof :)

Yes, I noticed that the front of the car is sitting very high like a clown. I think the guy that rebuild the engine used the standard springs to a Mondeo V6 instead of the ST2000 springs. He does not know what he's doing.

My 50 year old Corrina does a 1/4 mile in that time. What a joke. They also look like std ST24 front springs. Not right for that car at all.

@@placesbramlepoops st24 will do, the mk1 and mk2 are the same car.

Wouldn't seem so, the readouts would also show you the perfect times to shift.

thats one thing halfords clearly cant rip you off for! else they definitely would! smh.

Exactly what I thought

Yeah this seemed a bit low effort, not only there was a fairly long stretch of road that joined onto the runway at the start, with the width of that road you could probably do around 60 to start

Doesn't work unfortunately. At some point during the turn your velocity in the direction of the finish line will go from a negative one (you are driving away from the finish line) to zero. This is the point where you start accelerating towards the finish line and ideally you would face the finish line directly to apply all possible force the engine has in the right direction. However, during a U-turn, even if you use 100% of the track, you will always start sideways, i.e. 90 degrees tilted from the direction you actually want to go. Assuming your tires are at temperature and you can preload the turbocharger (if you have one), it is always better to start from a standstill at the very beginning of the track. Can't cheat physics, yet.. I totally agree with your point thought... I expected the to try *something*

@@RickyMcSpanish Exactly what I was thinking when he did his first standing start

@@TheKaylich I'm sorry, but you are just wrong on this. You are mistaking the cars ability to accelerate in terms of velocity with the engines ability to accelerate the car linearly (absolute speed). When you are perpendicular to the track and turning, your acceleration is limited by the tires and your acceleration is due to changing direction not increasing absolute speed. Just think about if you were on a bicycle and you are traveling at a decent rate of speed and you pull a U turn with a diameter of 20 feet. When you complete the U turn, you will only be 10 feet from the point where you were perpendicular with the road. At the end of the U turn, you will be traveling much faster than you could accelerate from a stop in 10 feet.

@@brandonp8300 @TheKaylich Well, either one of you could be right, depending on the vehicle and the radius of the turn. During the second half of the U-turn, assuming a constant speed turn on a single radius, the average acceleration parallel to the runway is exactly one-half of the lateral gs provided by the tires. Whereas if the car did a standing start from the very end of the runway, had AWD, then engine power permitting, it could potentially use 100% of the grip of its tires to accelerate over that same distance, thereby reaching a speed sqrt(2)=1.41 times faster. However, the FWD Mondeo will never be able to accelerate in a straight line at the same gs that it can corner, and its engine only makes 200 hp, so the best strategy would indeed be to take a running start on the largest radius circle possible.

never

Same time as he will be putting the gaffer tape on both bumpers i expect

@@maverick4177 Underrated MK2 Mondeo banter

it will be scrapped after this video, trashed the engine

By the time the headlights are restored properly.

And the boot lid lock cylinder

Should have folded the back seat down for an extra 10hp 😉

driver's side window also scratched from failed weatherstrips (they all do that sir) and glass not replaced

Can't quite get my head around the sagging roof lining. Presumably removed for respray... why tf, when showcasing their specialist abilities, would they put that POS back in?!

@@user-tw4cj2wt5d I can only conclude that either they couldn't get a replacement because of the situation and/or the budget wasn't there. Still, could have done what HubNut done with his Ford whilst over on the other side of the world on next to no budget at all (and will have to do again now Betty the Ford Fairmont (AU) is here in the UK).

Yeah and the people who spotted the suspension in the first video were shot down in flames ,me included 😅

Not half as disappointing as yr spelling.....😉😜

@@mathewgodfrey223 Really? Weird people would argue that point. I've never seen an ST/ ST24 let alone an ST200 sitting like that. Can't be great for handling either.

@@Flying_GC all the keyboard mechanics making out it would settle after it was driven . No way its settling 3"+ 🤣

@@andyhunt457 your*

EDIT: Since they opened their stores.

My daughter just had a brake light bulb bought and fitted by Halfords for £6, so I don't think that's a fair point.

Probably just oil. It probably hasn't been ran since it was restored

I don't even live in the UK, and i wouldn't ever use them. I mean the services they do are so basic a 13year old can do it...

With small garages going out of business those mechanics have to go somewhere. Chances are a lot of those well trained and experienced mechanics end up at Halfords so I wouldn't be too snooty about them.

Still never seen a barge pole 😂

I want to 'like' your comment, but it has 69 (nice) likes and I dont wanna spoil it.

@@Laz_Arus Ahhh 🤔😉👍🏾

Not possible to test top speed on a runway, so it was always doomed to failure.

I'm confused why he only did the speed run from a standing start?

Your interesting 😂

@@shaneeslick Because otherwise he would have had to drive on the grass. It's a runway, you idiot!

@@procatprocat9647 A runway as taxi-ways attached to it, you idiot!

@@procatprocat9647 You do realise that roads do connect to the runway, it's how the planes don't have to drive on the grass... he could have taken some speed through the corner. However the key piece of info that was missing in the vid is how fast it was still accelerating towards the end.

Total car is trash cause it's missing that badge!

Weight saving :-)

And several of its 200 horses too 😆

Where can you get one from then

@@johnstonlee a scrapyard

They won’t do the emissions test if your cam belt is overdue. Imagine the belt failing when you’re smoke testing. You’d be the first to sue Halfords. All about liability.

That's pretty embarrassing

Or slipstream behind the BTCC car. Either would have been a better idea than what he did.

Because this vid is an advert for halfords

It wasn't an st220

That means there's still oil in the engine, so send it!

@@schmuhf 😂

They've shut down all the Halfords near me and changed them to more like a kwik fit with no store. Where am I supposed to buy an overpriced airfreshner to moan about when it stops smelling in 3 days lol

If you've got 1.88m subscribers they probably would.

i actually believe mike knows nothing about cars

Can you elaborate? I missed the party

@@kenxiong6830 Probably best to let sleeping dogs lie, at this point.

​@@kenxiong6830We'll never know

Unlikely.

ive heard they charge to fit wheel trims 💀

It is a bit considering the fresh rebuild. Although i wonder if there's something in the engine oil to help with the running in process?

and the head liner is sagging

Genuinely was looking for someone else that spotted that!

"I've been Mike." ... But not anymore?

Ya the car doesn't have 200 crank hp that's for sure, he's finished the Quarter mile at 83mph and there's nothing better then that to know the power of a car. My old stock 1994 Saturn SC2 finished at 88mph and my modified 2012 Chevy Cruze did 89mph. The Cruze was 3200lbs with about 175hp.

My ST24 had less power and still dealt to it on the 1/4 mile time. In fact it did a 16.7 or something with the IMRC playing silly buggers

Downhill in a hurricane

A banked test track. Far bigger than any runway.

Yep in there dreams Sales bumph all the way.

in the mind of a drugged up salesman

That was a brilliant episode. The Stig couldn’t even comprehend what it was when he drove that Jag.😂

Yeah it looks absolutely terrible

Wouldnt have mattered much at all though.

I've got a Mondeo 2.2tdci I've had that almost off the clock 150 on the clock pulls like a train to 140 then thinks about it after that

And I'm sure it's far from standard

I don’t think they did given the shockingly poor performance…

This passed through my mind too, it does seem to be down on power around 3750rpm, and it just isn't growling like a V6 Duratec. Classic stuck IMRC stuck secondaries. I'm far from convinced they have done much work to the engine or the rest of the car.

its called drafting

@@EazyDuz18 depends where you come from, I've heard it called slip-streaming in the UK is yours an American term for the same thing?

Most faster cars take several miles, yes.