The Ford Mondeo 2015 model is interesting. No really it is. The only thing that frustrates me about it, is that we couldn’t live blog it, because we were en route to France and the place we stayed had no wifi or mobile phone reception I know – me, without my tech. It was a loooooong two weeks. More on that later though. Here’s the post that I wrote after a week with the Ford Mondeo 2015 model.
We’ve been road testing the new, all singing, all dancing 2015 Mondeo for a week now. We’ve used it to drive to my parents in the North West, go swimming, do supermarket runs and buy take out – all the things we do regularly in our family life.
I want to write something dramatic about this – with a creative flair – to write about how it’s made a huge difference to our lives. But actually, it’s been all the small things that it has and does, that has made the difference to our lives. The really comfy seats in the front and back – made for long journeys. The cup holders in the middle of the armrest, on the sides and in the back as well. The charging points in the armrest – with every plugin option you could think of and the additional charging point in the back, making it possible for the boys to play on the iPads and charge them at the same time.
The sat nav is something that people usually complain about. And I will say that at first I found it frustrating, but by taking some time to actually focus on it, I now love it. Especially as we’re about to drive the Mondeo through France and have found that it has sat nav for 47 countries in it !!!
Lovely Bloke and I were talking before it arrived, wondering if it’s still the dream drive for a travelling salesman. He doesn’t think I should even refer to it in these terms. But I think actually, it is – I was very comfortable doing a 6 hour trip to The Blessed North that should have only taken 4 hours. And if it works for that, it’s definitely working in making life easier, smooth and less angsty than it could be on shorter journeys.
Lovely Bloke thinks that it’s more family orientated. That’s not to say that it’s not family orientated – can’t it be both? The comfort is great. The parking sensors, the guidance on changing gear for fuel economy, the automatic changing of the headlights according to what the light is like outdoors.
What do you look for in a car? Things that make it work for long distances and short? Even if you don’t do the former that often? Is that me being overly expecting of a family car?
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