Hi All,

So the car park's full of Range Rovers, X 5s, Cayennes, Mercs, big BMWs and all that sort of thing. I work in an Aberdeen oil and gas company so there's a fair bit of cash and the same magnitude of ego floating around. Now I've got my 54 plate TDCi Mondeo and people are talking in the smoking shelter and we get the usual bollocks questions, "what's you ideal motor?" and that kind of thing. Well my ideal motor is a Ford Mondeo. And if I didn't have a Ford Mondeo I'd want a Ford Mondeo.

I'm posting this here today because my office told me to stfu and tell someone who gives a . Now I'm not suggesting that you do or will - But I think for the sake of my colleagues sanity I really do need to put it out there and try and move past this.

OK. So lets look at the facts here. We're dealing with a 54 plate TDCi Mondeo with the Zetec trim level. Some things jump right out here. We've got a sound system, (original equipment), that would have been Roy Bacer's dream ICE back in 2000. We've got Climate Control, not just a blower, not just AC. No - it's full on f'ing climate control. Front and back heated windscreens - not a biggy, not something you'd tell your grand children about, but it's there. Just thought I'd mention it. Then we've got nice big comfy seats. We've got cruise control. CRUISE CONTROL. I live in a city, I've never used it. But it's there. Ohh. And it does 61.3 MPG seemingly with or without the AC turned on. Nice. And the boot is so big I can get more shopping from ASDA in it than I can in my old man's 110 Defender - I bought a new double bed from Ikea and didn't think twice - it went in the boot, seats down, job's a good 'un - the car doesn't care - the boot just eats anything you throw at it - in the same way my trusty old Rottweiler eats anything I throw at him. And my mate's HP on his Cayenne cost him more in three months than my entire car did.

Mondeo is best. I'm pretty sure about that.