Gojirra99

All-New Ford Mondeo First Spy Photos
by Hans G. Lehmann
Copyright by Lehmann Photo-Syndication
03-03-2006

World Exclusive

At the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show, Ford Motor Company had a concept car on display named “losis”, set to test the public’s reaction to what will become the next generation Ford Mondeo. The losis was loaded with high tech, gull wings and an all over futuristic design and was hard to imagine in the every day traffic .

Here now are the very first photos showing a prototype of the real upcoming production Ford Mondeo, due for launch in 2007. The current model has been on the market since 2000 and underwent a minor restyling in 2003.

The pictured prototype, nicely clad in a very individual padded disguise, got caught during a top secret fuel stop in Northern Scandinavia. When the driver spotted the photographer, he turned the prototype around and fled full speed.

The new Mondeo is being developed simultaneously in Cologne/Germany and in Great Britain. The test car is a four door sedan with a rather short boot, similar to the concept car. It is based on the new S-Max platform and the suspension is the same as in the latest Ford Focus.

Ford is likely to offer again fuel engines ranging from 4 to 6 cylinders and various 4 cyl. Diesel engines.

The photos are showing 7 pictures of the prototype and one computer image suggesting how the new Mondeo could look like upon its release.

source : worldcarfans

GS3rdwow

That vehicle will jump fords sales massively.



Its almost unbelievable that ford could actually come up with a design like that.

Koma

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Look closely. It's a five door. Probably Ford's version of the Mazda 6 5dr.

modifyd

It closely resembles the new Lexus.

bizzy928

is this vehicle destined for north america?

tonydt1g3r

LOL is the car cold is that why he put on a puffy jacket

Och

iTrader: (3)

This is a Ford???? Holy crap, this is nice! Although it reminds me a lot of M45.

Gojirra99

The iosis concept : https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...ht=ford+mondeo

GFerg

The Europeans always get the good looking cars.

foofighter

the thing that bugs me is that when the brought over the first gen mondeo they changed a lot of the euro styling to americanize it.

The only way a ford can look this good is to have the design team from europe do it. The front end and wheel arches reminds me of the new S class. I like it...i hope they bring this over here unchanged from the euro market.

PhilipMSPT

iTrader: (5)

Ford (Motor Company) is doing a pretty good job in redesigning a lot of their cars. Props to the designs!

bruce van

I hope this car makes it into production as close to the concept as possible. The belt line is a bit high for my tastes, but it's a huge leap for Ford in terms of design.

Hopefully they won't drop the ball when it comes to the interior. Americans deserve better.

J_RoK

wow their started to copy the IS already.
The ford 500 was a clear knock off of the LS430/S-class

TheRupp

The front of the Fusion looks pretty much exactly like a G35 or CTS. I like this car though

Incendiary

Yeah, the LS430 wasn't at all a knockoff of the S-class to begin with...

Agree that the top pic has an IS-ish look to it, but if y'all read the accompanying text, that pic is actually just a CGI.