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Had a peek at this Mondeo forum and realised there is a fair interest in the USA version, the Fusion. My wife and I had a great drive across Northern USA and into Canada in 2016 in a Fusion Titanium rental car. Thought some of you might like a few of our photos, the album in the link is specially selected for Fusion pics, from the hundreds we took on the 8,600km road trip (in 23 days).
Basically we drove from Seattle to Prince Edward Island, mainly via Interstate Route 90, with detours to Yellowstone National Park, Indianapolis, Detroit and the beautiful autumn scenic drives of Vermont and Maine. Then a 2 day drive down to Boston to drop off the rental car. A fantastic road trip for a Ford man. https://photos.app.goo.gl/qgHCkiYWKu10o0oi2 Note the photos are titled with a brief description. Hope you enjoy the pics. BTW, I had the car for 2 days before I realised the Fusion was the USA Mondeo - I had never heard of them! it seemed to be a fairly top range car, leather seats, 4 cyl turbo (I think 2.0 litre) - nice car. Cheers.
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Us fellow Mondeoians know well of the fusion you speak of, we have the better equipped Mondeo going by one user with a Fusion or knowledge of it. Nice pics and hell of a trip by the looks of it.
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![]() Noticed your dash mounted GPS and would have thought a Titanium Fusion/Mondeo would come with a in dash GPS. ![]() Diesel or Gas? (Petrol) ![]()
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Re the GPS. I had booked a basic rental, the Fusion was a great upgrade, so wasn't expecting onboard GPS. Plus my logic is to leave home with a fully updated GPS, which I am familiar with, rather than an unknown quantity. Since the US trip, have used it in Europe and UK, both of which cars were not fitted with GPS. It has been a good buy.
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Love the photos. Just curious as to how expensive the car rental was. My wife and I are planning a similar trip in 2019 so want to start working out the budget.
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Did you specify a Fusion Titanium? I would've thought rental companies would only stock the fleet special Fusion S.
Getting the Titanium would be awesome. The bare-bones poverty pack doesn't get much at all - it only gets the first generation Sync - the one with a mass of buttons.
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Thanks for your interest.
Cyclone 1410: Pics of Alamo documents below. At the time it was about $2275AUD. I did a fair bit of research and found the insurance was very important - something to do with US drivers are covered with their license in a rental, different than here. Alamo made it easy, everything is included for Australian drivers, the only extra I took on top was Roadside Assistance for about $5/day as I didn't want to get stuck in the middle of nowhere. Seems expensive but my travel agent quoted me over $3000 with a Budget rental. Note it includes one-way rate, but not specified amount, as I dropped it off on the other side of USA. Peace of mind. All booked on line before I left home. NX74205: Alamo usually have an interesting system where you choose your car from a group of similar vehicles at pickup, but this one they allocated the car, maybe because it was a long distance rental? I ordered a basic mid-size Chrysler 200 (or similar) but was upgraded to "full size" (see the Alamo document). Yes, I think I was lucky to get the Titanium, it added enjoyment to our holiday, although a basic would have done the same job. The only problem it had was a bit of oil consumption, but after about 4 days of putting in a quart of good oil (in total), it stopped using oil - probably needed a good highway run to "clean the bugs out"! Lucky they had a mechanic at the wheel - I check the oil and coolant every morning in a rental car - I dont want to be the one that cooks an engine. The speed limit on the Interstate 90 in Montana and Wyoming was 80mph, I only went to 75 but thats about 120km/hr, so it got a good workout. The Fusion had about 24000 miles on the odo.
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I should get around to posting up our trip in the main forum, considering we went to the Henry Ford Museum, and did a factory tour in Dearborn - where they assemble F150s - the aluminium bodied ones we don't get here.
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I rented the USA map data for 30 days (cheaper than buying it) and preloaded every place of interest I was going to visit plus all my motel stays. I hired a Lincoln Continental SUV which came with a GPS, but it is much easier to use the GPS you are familiar with, especially when you have to concentrate driving in a foreign country and on the other side of the road on US freeways. ![]() The Lincoln was a pleasure to drive with all the luxuries and my Garmin never led me astray. I would highly recommend taking your own GPS preloaded if going overseas on a road trip. ![]() |
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