The Top Gear car review:Ford Mondeo

Name: Ford Mondeo
Item: Mondeo Diesel Hatchback (2014)
Rating: 7
Author: Top Gear

£19,230 – £31,540

Full screen

1/5

7/10

Overall verdict

We've had to wait for it, but the new Mondeo has been well worth it.

For:

Clear improvements over the old one, now almost a match for premium rivals

Against:

Not quite as much fun on a twisting back road, still lacks the premium badge

Overview

What is it?

The Ford Mondeo is pretty much an all-new car, designed to do pretty much exactly what the very familiar old one did. It’s a big family hatch and estate. Because the market has diversified, it’s joined at the top of Ford’s range by a big crossover-SUV called the Edge, and of course the S-Max and Galaxy, all based on the same platform.

We get 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 turbo petrols, an economy-biased 1.6 diesel and a 2.0 diesel in three outputs - we tested the middle 180bhp version of the Ford Mondeo. There’s also a hybrid petrol – big in the US, and actually built in the US (the others come from Spain), but of minority interest here.

Title	0–62	CO2	MPG	BHP	Price
The fastest 2.0 EcoBoost ST-Line Edition 5dr Auto	7.9s	171g/km	38.2	240	£26,990
The cheapest 1.0 EcoBoost Zetec Edition 5dr	12.0s	119g/km	55.4	125	£19,230
The greenest 1.5 TDCi ECOnetic Style 5dr	11.7s	94g/km	78.5	120	£22,570