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Fort Mondeo is a large family car. These families of cars are sold by the Ford Motor Company. The name of the car Modeo is derives from mundus, a Latin word means world. The initial generation of Mondeo was developed as world car I North America. The car was introduced on 8th January 1993. Its sale began on22nd March of 1993. It is available in different models. As a world car, it replaced the Ford Sierra, in Europe and Ford Tel star in a large portion of Asia and other market. Ford contour and Mercury Mystique replaced the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz.
The most of the production cost of Ford Mondeo was due to the Mondeo being a completely new design. Its challenges were to sharing very little if anything with the Ford Sierra. Ford Mondeo gives high priority in safety with a driver side airbag. It was the first ever car like this system. Ford Mondeo includes improved side impact bars, seat belt pretensions, and ABC higher models as standard features. The floor plan was designed to accept virtually any conceivable drive train, from transverse four to a longitudinal V-8. This resulted in a hugely obtrusive bad mostly disused bell housing cover. This results interior front of the car, specially the foot wells, feel far more cramped than would be from a vehicle of this size. The Ford Mondeo featured new manual.
The Mk2 Mondeo is known in some quarters as the MK1. It launched in October 1996. Seeing three of the Mk1 Mondeos biggest criticisms addressed, its bland styling and bad performance of head lighting it was closed. Ford briefly sold a version using the 2.0 L zetec engine four wheel drive. It is available 1995 and 1996. The timing was not ideal. The mondeo sold well in Europe. But when the other market like United States and Australia had not fared well, because of value it cannot cover those areas. There were larger locally produced Ford models, such as the Taurus and Falcon that had stronger brand. They also offered better value for money.
The third generation model of Ford was launched in October 2000 bad is known as the MK3. The Mondeo was considerably larger than its predecessor. Although ford abandoned its new edge design, theme for the mondeo Mk3. It was the first vehicle to fully benefit from the Prodigy concept car.
