'This team normally builds the clay and fiberglass models of all of our future products, so they are used to demanding timeframes and making full-scale models look like real vehicles,' Smith added. Time was also of the essence, and a team of craftsmen in Ford's Merkenich Design Studio near Cologne, worked night and day for several weeks to complete the car and make it driveable. 'As volume production for the car doesn't start until the second quarter of 2007, we had to create a one-off, driveable model based around a design studio property!' The new Mondeo was essentially still on the drawing board when we were asked to supply the vehicle for filming in February 2006,' said Martin Smith, Ford of Europe's Executive Director for Design. This sounds simple enough, and although the car in question may not be one of Bond's more complicated 'special' vehicles, in reality the task of getting a new Mondeo to the Bahamas in time for the filming and more than one year before the car's launch was immense. Finished in striking Tonic blue, the new Mondeo property was constructed by hand at Ford of Europe's Design Studio in Cologne, Germany, in January, 2006.Īppropriately for a Bond movie, the vehicle was then shipped under great secrecy to the filming location in the Bahamas, where the short driving sequence was filmed The model is a specially-built 5-door example of the new Mondeo, fitted with a sports bodykit.

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