Ford might be getting hammered on our shores showing a decrees in January numbers, but they are loved in the UK. The ford mondeo topped the British sales charts for the first month of the year.

Despite several redesigns and mixed sales success since its initial launch in 1993, the Ford Mondeo seems to have entered a period where both journalists and the general public can't get enough of what was originally the replacement for the ubiquitous Sierra.

The latest incarnation of the Mondeo has won a slew of European honors as readers of BusinessCar voted it their car of the year, Top Gear magazine hailed it as their Family Car of the Year, and Top Gear TV awarded it their joint plaudit of the Car of the Year title along with the Subaru Legacy Outback.