A Tale Of Two Wagons, Part The First: 2001 Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCI, or "The Famed Manual Diesel Wagon"

Perception is a funny thing. It especially shows up when you’re sitting on the fence between two cultures, seeing the world through the eyes of both at once. As a European with close relation to US car culture, I know something about that, and I’ll show it to you with two wagons. Each of them is extravagant and fabled on one continent, and totally boring on the other. And each of them is based on a car I owned and used as a daily driver for several years. So I know them quite well, and I know they rule, in their own different ways.

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  • ToolGuy Nice writeup.