At the beginning of next year, the curtain will finally fall for the Mondeo. Little is known about a successor to the now aging traditional D-segmenter. Until the Mondeo is replaced by a new model, Ford seems to be able to sing it out with the electric Mustang Mach-E. The SUV has overtaken the Mondeo in the European sales statistics.
Ford sold 10,161 Mustang Mach-Es in Europe in the third quarter of this year. The Mondeo was good for only 3,638 sold during the same period. If we look at the figures for the first three quarters of this year, the sales counter of the Mustang Mach-E stands at 15,602 units. The Mondeo was good for 10,427 units in the same nine-month period. That means the Mustang Mach-e has officially overtaken the Mondeo.
Ford Mustang Mach E
Also in the Netherlands, Ford is doing good business with the Mustang Mach-E. The electric SUV casually entered the Top 5 of the sales statistics in July. Up to and including September, Ford has sold more than 2,250 Mach-E Mustangs in the Netherlands. The Ford Mondeo was good for no less than 2,000 units less throughout 2021 to date. In the first nine months of this year, only 250 new Mondeos were registered. A shadow of the more than 10,000 copies of the Mondeo sold annually in the 1990s. Who ten years ago had said that an electric SUV called Mustang would sell better than the Mondeo, was undoubtedly not taken seriously.
Ford Evos (China)
It is still not entirely clear to what extent Ford has a successor to the Mondeo in the development rooms. We know that Ford will definitely pull the plug on the current model in March 2022 and that a possible successor will no longer be a traditional hatchback, sedan or station wagon. It would therefore be logical if Ford would make a Citroën C5 X-like of the new Mondeo – of which it is still questionable whether it will also be called that. Ford has such a model in China in the form of the Evos. Although a packed Evos has been caught on European soil, that car does not appear to be on the market in Europe.
From 2026, Ford will only sell passenger cars with a plug-in hybrid or fully electric powertrain in Europe and four years later, only branded EVs will be on the menu in Europe. The ‘new Mondeo’ could therefore just become an EV, a car that may use the Volkswagen Group’s MEB platform.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl