Ford Mondeo Wins Auto Express Award

Auto Express, one of the leading automotive publications in the UK has awarded Ford Motor Company's new Mondeo as the 2007 Car of the Year. In addition the Mondeo also other prestigious awards including the Best Family Car and the Best Estate Car.

According to David Johns, Editor in Chief of Auto Express: "The Mondeo delivers effortlessly, performing with aplomb everywhere. It steers beautifully, rides with a composure and smoothness that's absent from even the best German executive cars, handles tautly and has a great range of engines. It's also vast inside, beats its rivals for quality, is clearly laid out with great refinement and comfort levels to take the sting out of everyday driving."

Both the Ford Mondeo hatchback and estate wagon models impressed the road test crew of Auto Express. The testers recognized the Mondeo's striking exterior design, interior features, and vehicle functionality (including cabin and luggage spaces).

Johns added: "Combining the sheer amount of room on board with its trademark hatchback, the Mondeo is more flexible than booted rivals. Every passenger gets increased space and greater seat comfort and no rival cruises as comfortably at high speed or deals with coarser surfaces so well. It even delivers a cosseting ride around town and thanks to its stiffer body it handles beautifully too. The incredible 75-car range completed the credentials that made Mondeo a worthy winner of the family car crown."

John continued:: "Although Ford made public its intentions to make the Mondeo an object of desire, its designers didn't fall into the trap of putting form ahead of function. Quite simply, the new Mondeo estate is what all good load-luggers should be – big, practical and superb at carrying stuff. From its hangar-like luggage bay to clever options such as the sliding floor, the Ford feels like a car which is designed to work for a living."

So this only means that the Ford Mondeo not just rock the UK market, but it also kicks other vehicle models' asses. (if they have one. LOL!)