hey, just an added note.... i was searching on ebay.co.uk for mondeo stuff to stick on my car, and i found a 1995 mondeo toy car that was modeled after a prototype V-8 mondeo from ford.
according to the guy, i guess they were planning to put a V-8 in the mondeo and race it or something, but scrapped the idea..... maybe someone on fordmondeo.org knows something about this "prototype"
dunno what V-8 they would have used, being 1995....
here's the link to the toy car.... if it's true, someone should know about it
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3540450962&category=223
EDIT: oh, and i'm staring at the pic for the car, and it's a LHD mondeo, maybe from germany???