Ford Mondeo

Car model

The Ford Mondeo is a large family car manufactured by Ford since 1993. The first Ford model declared as a "world car", the Mondeo was intended to consolidate several Ford model lines worldwide (the European Sierra, the Telstar in Asia and Australia, and the Tempo/Mercury Topaz in North America). The Mondeo nameplate is derived from the Latin word mundus, meaning "world". Thus Mondeo can be viewed as a Latin-derived brandname from multiple languages: Bourguignon monde, English monde, Esperanto mondo, Franco-Provençal mondo, French monde, Friulian mond, Ido mondo, Istriot mondo, Italian mondo, Lombard mond, Occitan mond, Romansh (Surmiran dialect) mond, Venetian móndo, Walloon monde, all meaning "world". For its first two generations, the Mondeo was produced using the CDW27 platform, with the third-generation model shifting to the EUCD platform. The fourth-generation models use the CD4 platform, and the fifth-generation use the C2 platform. Due to declining sales and a growing trend towards crossover SUVs over saloons and estates, Ford announced in March 2021 that it will discontinue the production of the Mondeo in Europe and Argentina with no direct successor. Production of the Mondeo ended in Europe in March 2022.