Click Thumbnails to Enlarge
Ford Mondeo teaser concept
By
Chris Chilton
First Official Pictures
22 September 2006 08:02
The inside story
This is the best Ford interior since the Cortina 1600E’s. Expensive-looking slush mouldings abound, flashes of silver lighten the tone and the huge LCD readout sited between the two main instrument dials on top-spec models humbles anything Audi or BMW is offering. The show car’s lairy orange leather upholstery probably won’t make it to the showroom but essentially what you see here is what you’ll get next spring. The rear bench is flat enough to mean seating for five is a real possibility and the graphics on the sat nav screen are fresh and modern. But the concept’s huge full length glass roof won’t be making the leap.
Anything else?
The production car won’t appear until March’s Geneva show and will hit showrooms shortly afterwards. But we’ll be seeing the Mondeo again before that: it features in the next James Bond film, Casino Royale. New Bond Daniel Craig will drive a five-door in the prequel before he becomes a fully-fledged double-o agent and switches to an Aston DBS.
