Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

[Twocky61]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

Mondeo's; love 'em; one of my all time favourite cars; like the 2000E Sierra Cosworth

When I hire, Mondeo's are the cars for me

Be a shame if Mondeo's are discontinued

[Arran]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

The problem with the Mondeo is that its buyers have moved away in many different directions. Some have moved to the Focus - which is larger and more upmarket that 1990s Escorts; others have moved to compact executive cars; and others have moved towards people carriers, SUVs, and van type cars.

[Mulletino]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

Not sure if you are old enuff Mulletino but I rode on the old Red Rattler trains for many years. Smelly, noisy, dirty and slow.. nothing good to say about them in fact. This is how they looked... would be late 1970s I am guessing. They were phased out..finally..in 1992. (See clip)
https://youtu.be/eVqZ2aglowE

nah mate, I didn't move to Australia till 2005.

Those trains look cool though, I used to enjoy riding the British Rail ones that had separate compartments on each carriage with a door each side, made it hard for ticket inspectors though.

[CrystalBall]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

The market has changed. There is no longer a big demand for D segment cars from mainstream brands. SUVs/crossovers unfortunately take a big slice of the market and those D segment cars that do sell tend to be from premium brands. Look how the Accord was axed in Europe and the Avensis and Tipo (is this C segment?) are also going. Not sure what the French are doing but big Renault/Peugeot/Citroen saloons/hatchbacks used to be everywhere but not now. I always liked the Mondeo (and the Sierra and Cortina before it) but it looks like cars like these are no longer that popular with buyers.

[Donald the Great]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

Not sure if you are old enuff Mulletino but I rode on the old Red Rattler trains for many years. Smelly, noisy, dirty and slow.. nothing good to say about them in fact. This is how they looked... would be late 1970s I am guessing. They were phased out..finally..in 1992. (See clip)
https://youtu.be/eVqZ2aglowE

[Mulletino]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

^ we had an old Granada Ghia MKI that also turned out to be a death trap, didn't find out till we went to sell it, was three cars welded together!

[80sChav]

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I got the impression that cars like the Mondeo don't sell as well these days, people either want something more "prestige" or a "soft roader".

My Dad had a Mondeo for years, & it surprised me when he replaced it with a Nissan Qashqai.

My Mum said similar here Richard - from either a differing paper or online as to what you say - but i think/thought that generally Ford with their more say 2prestige makes" like Mondeo and later Ford Escort and Orions that these did challenge the more up-market buisnessman Cars like Vauxhall's and Rover in the 1990s - but I recall old Rovers pre 1995 being well well rubbish and looking past dated (especialy in the sunday Mags as a a 2 page advert) but then again so was the last generation Granada - which my Mum owned for a day until her Partner ordered it to go back to where she bought it from as it was a potiental death trap (and that was only in about 1998 or so)!

Infact I bet she/we even only owned it for 45 minutes - let alohne a day!!

80sChav

[80sChav]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

Nah I was in the UK. Perhaps it was because it was a "Safe" Rep or Company Car? Maybe it was just me and my mates then! XD

I do remember when the Sierra's came out and people referred to them as "Jelly Moulds", one drove into the back of my Dad's 70s Daimler Double Six, the Daimler barely had a scratch, the Sierra folded right in at the front.

Hi Mulletino mate

Wiki has said similar that they got a bad press - generally I trust them, but they do appear to be "in-acurate" on certain points/pointers occasionaly I think though

80sChav

[Mulletino]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

I am unsure to be frank/fair here Mulletino mate - may-be in australia (if you was there when it launched it had bad reviews) but i remember (may-be through Rose Tinted shades ... I dunno) it being looked upon as an extremley posh Siera - which as later Ford Escorts had parts that was aligned to the making of Siera's , I guess the bad reviews are not far from wrong in a way possibly

80sChav

Nah I was in the UK. Perhaps it was because it was a "Safe" Rep or Company Car? Maybe it was just me and my mates then! XD

I do remember when the Sierra's came out and people referred to them as "Jelly Moulds", one drove into the back of my Dad's 70s Daimler Double Six, the Daimler barely had a scratch, the Sierra folded right in at the front.

[80sChav]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

Wasn't it referred to as the Mundano when it came out due to the boring look of it?

I am unsure to be frank/fair here Mulletino mate - may-be in australia (if you was there when it launched it had bad reviews) but i remember (may-be through Rose Tinted shades ... I dunno) it being looked upon as an extremley posh Siera - which as later Ford Escorts had parts that was aligned to the making of Siera's , I guess the bad reviews are not far from wrong in a way possibly

80sChav

[Richard1978]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

I got the impression that cars like the Mondeo don't sell as well these days, people either want something more "prestige" or a "soft roader".

My Dad had a Mondeo for years, & it surprised me when he replaced it with a Nissan Qashqai.

[zabadak]

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My dad had Cortinas as company cars back in the day, Marks I, II and III!

[George 1978]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

It was referred to as the Cortina of the 1990s because it replaced the Sierra which in turn replaced the Cortina.

It's amazing how 1990s cars still look modern and stylish now (compared to 1970s cars back then).

[Mulletino]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

Wasn't it referred to as the Mundano when it came out due to the boring look of it?

[80sChav]

Re: Death of the Ford Mondeo - goodbye to him/her

What Ford are to axe Mondeo!!! WOW! This is news to me. I remember when the Mondeo came out in March 1993, What car gave a Mondeo free video with the mag (which i still have). I have had afew Mondeos over the years. Still i feel that Mondeo was no Cortina, and people today want crossovers. sad really that Mondeo man is no more.

According to Tuesday's Daily Star EscortEclipse yeah it say's so - though most of it seems based on Cost-cutting, which I see no benefit for Ford axing such a ledgend this way

Though the Daily star is not the best Newspaper going - it is related to the Daily express and it's group and I generaly but either one or the other/or both, so given it's relationship with the Daily express I am going to trust their reporting here (though hopefuly I am wrong - but can not see it being wrong)

80sChav