On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 11:36:08 -0700 (PDT), NT wrote:

The loss of power steering is trivial.

That depends on how heavy the steering is without the power
assistance. On the old Mondeo it wasn't to bad, heavy certainly but
you didn't need almost every bit of upper body strength and heave the
wheel round with both hands on the same side like my current car
needs.

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Cheers
Dave.