Get a Lot More Bang for Your Buck

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ALTHOUGH the big money for Ford comes in the base specification Mondeo models, the company likes to show what it can do when the purse strings aren't drawn so tight. The range-topping Titanium X Sport model is quite some display. Solely available with the punchiest petrol and diesel engines in the Mondeo line up, the Titanium X Sport isn't cheap but will tempt those who are quite impervious to the allure of premium German badges. The 175bhp diesel engine and the 218bhp petrol unit certainly have the drop on anything equivalently priced from the BMW or Audi.

Agreed, the Ford Mondeo Titanium X Sport doesn't have the snappiest name. In fact it's about as elegant as a frog in a sock, but get past the explosion of badging and what lies beneath is well worth your consideration. Any current generation Ford Mondeo is an impressive piece of engineering. The cheaper cars are, if anything, more admirable in terms of what they get done within their strict budgetary remits but it's liberating to find out what Ford could do when the bean-counters are temporarily distracted or otherwise seized up over their copy of Excel.

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Get a Lot More Bang for Your Buck

The result is a car that asks some very searching questions about your motivation for buying a vehicle in this class.

It'll force you to consider whether you're buying a car or buying a badge.

Some will avoid the issue. Ford is banking on a proportion of these potential customers deciding that the Mondeo Titanium X Sport is a l...

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