Edit: Ahmed Al-Kumi

A source officially told US company Ford today about its new Mondo 2022 at the Chinese Design Center in Shanghai, where it presented a new design language for Ford in the region, following a series of images leaked last year that outperformed the final design of the car.

Ford Mondeo has been on sale in China since 2002, nearly a decade after its launch in Europe, and chief designer Mauricio Tuco said that reinventing the model was "a privilege and a challenge for our team.

The source continued: "We wanted to respect and appreciate the history that preceded us while bringing the customer experience to the next level," and "the starting point in design is always the client and looking for innovative ways to integrate what they need and want into design."

The new Ford Mondeo is the first model designed according to the new "Power Progressive Energy" philosophy, which is said to blend elements of Ford's "rich heritage" with "icon designs" with its Chinese buyer preferences, and the three specific characteristics of the new spirit are "leadership, agility, and responsiveness."

Deliveries of Ford Mundo will begin in China during the second quarter of 2022, the new four-door saloon will be produced in a joint venture between Ford and Chang'an China in Chongcheng, while Ford has excluded new Mondeo sales in Europe, and suggestions suggest that they could be sold in the United States as a replacement for the Fusion, although Ford has not yet confirmed details on where to acquire the North.

The new Mondeo relies heavily on its recently launched sister model at the Chinese market, Evos Cross Over, where key design elements include a prized-shape network, high-end LED headlamps connected to a light tape inside the front edge of the engine hood, separate daytime operating lamps and A-shaped airway drawing within the lower part of the front bumper.

The new Ford Mondeo features an ocean hood, large wheelhouses with wheels up to 19 inches in diameter, structural wings and outside-pulled door handles, a coupé-style roof line with varying colors to the rest of the body, and lines inside the back of the rear doors and rear panels.

The rear part also came with a distinctive design featuring a short surface, Mustang-inspired rear lamps (also connected to a full-width light band) and a bumper with a compact dispersion.

The new Ford Mundo will be available in-house with the same basic cabin structure as Evos, which includes a meter panel with an 1.1-meter wide display, consisting of a 12.3-inch digital display and a separate 27-inch information and entertainment touch screen.

The compartment will include the new Ford Sync + 2.0 UX system with an upgraded software package from Baidu, and will provide a virtual assistant with wireless software updates, level 2 driver assistance functions and car-to-X technology.

The Chinese market models were planned to offer an option between 1.5-litre turbocharger and 2.0-litre petrol engines, which provided power of up to 238 horsepower, and an additional hybrid engine, the details of which had not yet been officially announced.