Ford Mondeo almost certain to return to the US.
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http://www.autoblog.com/2006/09/23/w...d-in-the-buff/
It looks like the 5 door version to me.
Don't forget that Ford first brought the Mondeo over in 1995 as the Contour which was on Car and Driver's 10 best list for a couple of years.
I own a '98 SVT Contour (about as close to a euro version as possible) and the while drive is great, the quality is unmistakably 1990's Ford.
That said, I would still consider a new version.
It looks like the 5 door version to me.
Don't forget that Ford first brought the Mondeo over in 1995 as the Contour which was on Car and Driver's 10 best list for a couple of years.
I own a '98 SVT Contour (about as close to a euro version as possible) and the while drive is great, the quality is unmistakably 1990's Ford.
That said, I would still consider a new version.
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The road issue is actually true, and is factual. car makers do tune cars differently between here & there to compensate (there are exceptions, but the norm there is far stiffer than the norm here). Sure, you can go to a urban area and find the occasional crappy or brick lined roads. But as a whole, take a drive on even a new rough concrete surfaced, rain-grooved, barely matched expansion seemed freeway here, and compare that to a smooth asphalt covered version in Australia, or what seems to be the norm in most all of Europe, and there is a big difference. Even on main city streets.
Hmmmm..... sounds like southern Indiana (IIRC), I was on a little trek from Virginia to Wisconson (or maybe it was Virginia to Kansas????) but I remeber a certain strecth of road in what I remeber to be Indiana and I thought it was perhaps the best stretch of road I have ever been on in my life. It was asphalt paved and smooth.
Usually when I think of the midwest to northeast roads I get this mental picture of something akin to a crater pocked battlefield. This of course reinforced by my mustang chums who have warned me that a live rear axle on such surfaces will cause irrepairable spinal damage while reducing my skeleton to pink paste. Turns out though with the exception of a few states (Ohio comes to mind) the roads tend to be in better shape than here in southern Va which are generally not that bad.
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Ha ha...yeah, my wife commented on the roads on the way to NAIAS this year..lots of overfilled patchwork, really tests your bump-steer.
The constant freezing/thawing/salting, makes for nice potholes..
The more north and east of Ohio, the worse, in my experience.
Not a bad looking car...
How will it fall into the line up with the 500 etc??
The constant freezing/thawing/salting, makes for nice potholes..
The more north and east of Ohio, the worse, in my experience.
Not a bad looking car...
How will it fall into the line up with the 500 etc??
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Falcon, Mondeo, and EuroFocus would be worlds better than Crown Vic/500, Fusion, and UglyFocus, IMHO. Hopefully Mullally realizes this... if he can, and does something about it, they might make their turnaround. If they don't change what they're doing now, they shouldn't be surprised when their fortunes don't change, either...
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