The Ford Mondeo has been
crowned Best Family Car and Best Estate in the Auto Express New Car
Honours for the second year running, with S-MAX named Best MPV. Awarding
the Best Estate title, Auto Express said: “In a class where space rules
supreme, Ford’s Mondeo has few challengers.” It said that the Mondeo
estate offers all of the driveability, performance and luxury of the
standard hatchback, “and manages to serve this up in a package that
looks simply fantastic”.The Mondeo estate is current holder of
Britain’s two major towcar of the year awards, one given by The Caravan
Club and the other by Practical Caravan, What Car? and the Camping and
Caravanning Club.
Awarding the Best Family Car title, Auto Express said: “The brilliant
new Mondeo is – quite simply – the best family car yet built.” Enthusing
about Mondeo being brilliant to drive, and offering a huge choice of
engines and specification, the magazine said it was “as refined as any
executive rival”. The S-MAX is “beautiful to drive, practical and
beautifully built….proof that families really can have it all,” said
Auto Express. It said that a huge equipment list and sporty options
including alloy wheels, ensure that driving an MPV need not mean giving
up on a brilliant car.
The Auto Express New Car Honours are the result of the biggest new
car assessment programme carried out by any UK motoring magazine – with
more than 1,100 new cars independently tested each year on a wide range
of key buying criteria, including practicality, value for money,
performance, handling and safety.