[Mondaveo]

Hi Al, welcome to the forums When I read your post I thought hey, there's some discussion I'll enjoy, but then a fortnight passed. Anyway, I hope this information is still useful to you regardless...

Originally Posted by AlCan

Anyway, my question - I can't figure out the MA, MB, MC etc marques. Nor can I figure out the engine designations but I'll ask that separately if necessary.Can anyone tell me what the Mx designations mean, and when they change? My research seems to say year and/or body style, but if someone could clarify for me, that would be great. The Titanium seems to be a BA7 (if you believe our MV Registry data, a lot of which is wrong), and this just adds to my confusion.

I haven't got a source for reference here - Wikipedia is missing details, my Haynes manual doesn't go into enough depth and I notice that the Ford Au website has removed most information on models older than 2010, which is a shame - so this is just my understanding...The third generation Mondeo built on the Volvo CD platform was launched in late 2006. In the UK and Europe they generally refer to it as the Mk4, while in Australia it was given the designation MA. MB was a minor refresh which I think came in 2008. I want to say that the MA launched with sedan and wagon bodystyles and the MB added the hatchback, but I'm not certain on that. Engines relevant to the Australian market were Duratec i4 NA petrol, Duratorq i4 turbo diesel (with Euro III and IV emissions controls) and i5 turbo petrol in the sports sedan sold here as the XR5.MC was a significant update and facelift of the range which started being assembled in late 2010 for the 2011 MY (my own car is a Nov 2010 built but 2011 MY). In overseas markets they often call it the Mk4.5, or talk about FL (facelift) and preFL models. New drivetrains were also introduced, with the i4 turbo petrol Ecoboost replacing the Duratec NA petrol at most (non-base) trim levels, the Duratorq upgraded to Euro V, and the PowerShift DCT introduced for Ecoboost and diesel models, replacing conventional torque-converter automatic transmissions except for with the Duratec. The sedan was also discontinued, which along with the new engines saw the end of the XR5. Note that although the new drivetrains were effectively introduced with the MC, some MBs toward the end of production were built with the new running gear, so you can sometimes find an MB with the PowerShift DCT.And then the new generation model (fourth generation or Mk5) came in around 2014, eventually coming to Australia as the MD Mondeo in 2015. It is a completely different platform to the MA/MB/MC although carries over the Ecoboost and Duratorq engines (but dials back on the DCT to only be fitted to the turbo-diesel, going back to torque converter for petrol Ecoboosts).

Originally Posted by AlCan

Have photo if anyone can tell me the best way to post it.

I'm certainly interested to see. You can attach pictures directly to your posts on this forum, however you are only given a very small amount of storage space (which private messages also consume) so it will fill up your quota very quickly if you try to use it to post images.There are some image-hosting services you can sign up to - Photobucket used to be the one from waaay back in the day - but the free tiers are not the most reliable. YMMV, I haven't looked into them since forever.Since these days I do 99% of my online activity out of my Android smartphone, and my photos are being backed up to Google anyway, I host images and content I want to share out of my Google account. In Google Photos you can create a Shared or public album. You can then post the link to the album (or individual photos), like so:https://goo.gl/photos/iyjqAb6LkiiVLYJZ9If I want to embed images in a forum post, I first use an image resizer app on my smartphone to reduce the images to (say) 800 or 1024 pixels, so that I'm not embedding multiple megapixels of photo which will appear very large on the forum. The tricky part then is you need to copy the image source URL (not the link to the image in the album) to put into the post wrapped in [IMG][/IMG] tags. You have to view the image in the browser (not Google Photos app) and open the context menu by right-clicking (on desktop) or press-and-long-hold (on mobile) on the image and selecting the option like "Copy image location" or "Open image in new tab". The URL you obtain should be like googleusercontent.com as opposed to photos.google.com.Example:When I view this image in Google Photos the URL is https://photos.google.com/u/2/share/...RaN0xnVnhwT3l3But to put it inline in a post, I need to get the URL to the raw image which is https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw...-gm?authuser=2If you instead use Apple Cloud, or have Instagram or other services like that, I'm sure you can do similar.Anyway, hope that helps! Does that help? I hope it helps, but I'm not sure if it does...