What’s the big deal about this car?

to me somehow that looks like a lexus + audi

For once I think a new Ford design looks good. British designers know how to made wagons look good. If it’s AWD and – oh, I can wish – powered by the Turbo I-5 from the Focus, it would be great!

But of course, Ford won’t be bringing this to the USA… that would only make perfect sense for a company that constantly doesn’t deliver their best products in their biggest market.

When Ford brought the Mondeo to the US as the Contour a few years back it didn’t do to well. I do agree that Ford has been doing good things with that Volvo I-5, and hope that the new Mondeo gets it.

Can they make one version of the Mondeo look like the concept, not just the nose of the concept grafted onto a wagon?

That’s because we had the Taurus already which was virtually identical to the consumer. The only difference is, in the UK they updated the Mondeo where here we let the Taurus rot in hell.

Poor man’s Rapide…

This is what i would drive

This car will save Ford.

Not bad at all. Looks to me like they kept there word and are using some new design language. If fact, it looks like they grafted the entire front end of the Ford Iosis concept onto the car.

The thing is that when they brought the Mondeo over to the US and named it the Contour, they also changed a few things on the car which made it look worse than the european version. Same thing happened a couple years later with the Focus. It seems like the same car but from the start there were small details in the appearance which made the European version look better.

Not only look better but perform better as well, the engine and the suspension on the Focus is better in the UK than here.

Looks like a modernized Focus wagon. Is this really what the American public is asking for, or is this Ford telling us what we need?

If this is a poor mans Rapide then wheres the dotted line? Of course though it, like the Falcon, wont come to the US.

Finally, a car that can actually be bought is being showcased.

Rapide_

if you think a ford is considered a poor man’s car, it’s time for you to get off of your pedestal and join the rest of us normal income folk. sorry we all can’t be a ignorant rich b!tch like you… unless of course you were being facetious.. then nevermind.

A poor man’s Rapide was a great compliment, relax big boy.

The Mondeo should be brought over exactly like this. Sell it as a Ford or Mercury, I don’t car which – just don’t change it! This would save the company much like the ‘86 Taurus did!

Yummy, i prefer this to the Edge

hey alphabravoseven have yonever heard the “poor mans” expression before?
Poor Man’s Rolls Royce
Poor Mans ROlex etc etc
its not a put down it just means something costs less while delivering a good deal of what the expensive original does

does this mean its coming to the US

Ford (USA), you’re first savior has arrived. Bring it on and DON”T SCREW IT UP!

I would buy this Ford mr Fields and I own an Audi, that side window graphic is awesome, I’m emotionally erect just looking at it

Why WHy WHY can’t they bring the design to fruition and sell it HERE in the USA with some decent driving capabilities? Is that really so tough? Is it?

I’m a fan of and really like the Edge, plus I generally like Ford as a company, but I don’t know of anything else seriously interesting coming our way. Hot concepts end up as Montegos or 500s. Hot cars that they sell elsewhere aren’t sold here, and then they bemoan a diminished reputation. Sometimes these car companies remind me of the guy who goes to an interview wearing tattered jeans and a T-shirt and then complains he never gets the job.

IN a global economy shouldn’t all products play globally with minimal alterations? Nissan has said that all its product has to be capable of being sold in any market in the world.
I failed to get a job when I wore my “I’d rather be masturbating” T SHirt to the interview

Looks promising, but it will be direct competition to the Edge. Ford has the ability of market products that compete amongst themselves- 500/Fusion; Explorer/Edge; Freestar/Freestyle.
It’s a toned down Audi Q7.

Looks nise, love the seats!

Ianapat7,
it’s closer to Audi Allroad, then Q7.

Wow! A Ford I would actually consider buying. That must mean there is no way in hell Ford NA would sell it here! I love the new Ford Europe design language used here and on the Focus ST, as well as Iosis concept.

Unfortuantely we get the retarded 3-giant chrome bar grille and bland styling in the USA. I guess Ford NA really has some sort of death wish. Maybe they have figured out a way to make some money by going out of business stateside?

Should have been the Fusion, ’nuff said.

This vehicle should be brought in as a Mercury. You could even still call it the Mondeo because Mercury likes to have their vehicle names starting with an M. Also Mercury doesn’t have a vehicle in the car based crossover segment, while both Ford and Lincoln do.

So it comes with a manual transmission in these promotionals. I hope this doesn’t indicate Ford’s resistance to importing it into the USA, (since nearly every promotional photograph for a US car shows an automatic).

Cooper, this vehicle should be brought in as a FORD. It looks very good as a Ford and it should probably keep with the good looks as they are. Rebadging it as a Mercury means that Mercury gets to Mountaineer it up with their white-on-gray-on-tan-with-chrome design schemes.

I will make my wife conceive in the backseat of this car. Please join me.

mblommel, same with Toyota and Honda. US always gets the bland boring versions. I know it’s cost saving but sometimes it’s too much like the crappy back end of the Accord that actually hurts their sales.

Hyperion, I get where your coming from but if Ford brought over it would probably incorporate the tri-bar grille and new headlight design as well. Which would require extensive revision to the front end.

Mondeo in the US? Notgonnahappen.com.

Can’t sell it as a Ford here, it would take them 5 years to engineer a chrome 3-bar grille. Also this ‘dynamo’ styling language is Euro Ford; in the USA we get ‘Bold American’ meaning straight lines and sheer surfaces.

interior really looks audi-ish

Why do they always use such awful interior colours – would you have an orange and black leather couch in your house for F sake
orange and black the interior looks very slick apart from the seat colour

would you guys in the us buy a car with a 2 litre engine, you kind of get the impression thats why you wont have our euro trash over the pond

Yum… do you see now… Ford Europe I could hug thee!

BTW Wobbs, it’s more like a rich tan reddy brown colour than an orange i think…

Why should they bring this over to the US when Ford can give us a Fusion Sportwagon with an engine that barely pushes the car out of it’s own way, marshmellowy suspension, and continued “Bold” design that’s still as bland as the Taurus:-/

This car in wagon form doesn’t quite do it for me, but I’d take a sedan with that interior and front end as long as they don’t muss up the rear.

It’s an Audi Q7 ripoff

This car could work as a Mercury. Take a look at GM’s plan: Chevy covers classic American, Saturn covers stylish European, Buick covers understated luxury, Cadillac covers blinged luxury, and Pontiac is morphing into the maker of rear-drive performance niche vehicles. Not sure where this puts Saab, but I hope they survive. Small Euro niche cars?

Ford could have Mercury cover the Euro cars, Ford stays with middle America (three bar grille), Lincoln covers classic American luxury, Volvo covers Euro luxury. Sell Jag, LR, and Aston Martin back to Nasser. Now what to do with Rover?

Alphhabravoseven, the how does someone being wealthy/rich make them ignorant? That is remarkably ironic and self-condemning. Maybe if you were a bit more intelligent and/or personable, you might be able to earn as much money as you envy people for.

Damn, this car looks like a Predator with his helmet/face shield on.

Good looking car, now it should be inported to the US to replace the crappy Fusion.

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BTW Wobbs, it’s more like a rich tan reddy brown colour than an orange i think…
Comment by JohnnyBlazE, posted on September22 at 7:48 am

yes its the same tan colour as a sunbed tan i.e Orange

its still fecking awful

^^ inport fanboi ^^

So “dynamo” styling is based on modern, upmarket and sporty ideas and “bold American” is fat, retarded and boring? Geez we really need to talk to Ford’s styling department to find out how they perceive Americans.

It’s so sad, I used to be such a Ford fan. Now I can hardly give a $hit. Let them build pickups for rednecks.

very european but looks really good.

^ haha joke (it does look good though) they should deff. import this car

Very nice except for the front fascia/bumper cover. Fix that and Ford has an awsome vehicle here !!!

It’s a Mazda 6 Wagon with a nicer interior…what’s the big deal?

golf4me.. you made my point. If Ford is in such dire financial straits, why did they bother to spend so much money to engineer an all-new car that looks almost exactly like their own Mazda6 wagon? And on a completely different but almost identically-sized platform. If Ford could synergize all their resources and create a common platform for the 6, Fusion and Mondeo they would save a MINT — and then do the same for their next worldwide Focus/3/C30/S40/V50, and their RWD Aussie Falcon/US Town Car/Crown Vic..

it’s just a wagon version of the iosis. how many concepts do we need before the real thing comes out?

cooool… ANOTHER suv!

i like it plain and simple