► Month five with the Ford Mondeo
► Meeting the Mondeo’s van cousin
► Ford Transit now a global CV
Bumped into Mondy’s van cousin this month, another of Ford’s world cars. In Britain we’ve known the Transit since the 1960s, but it’s a relatively recent arrival in other markets, including the US, where it replaced the ubiquitous Econoline, favourite of kidnappers, bank robbers and maybe a few law-abiding types too. It can swallow loads up to 15 cubic metres, comes with car-like gadgets including adaptive cruise and lane-keeping alert, but no-one’s going to accuse this one of looking like an Aston.
Logbook: Ford Mondeo 2.0TDCI Titanium
Price: £26,865
As tested: £31,135
Miles this month: 1026
Total miles: 6189
Our mpg: 39.9
Official mpg: 56.5
Fuel this month: £140.40
Extra costs: £0