These were the words of two giants, one the worlds most flamboyant rock band “Queen”, the other a multinational known to millions - the Ford motor co. 

 

The world car is an ambitious task for any manufacturer, many had managed two out of the three main markets - Europe, Japan and the U.S. - but all three markets was a goal only the smaller scale prestige makers had managed so far. Ford thus decided it would be the first to offer the “world car”, second time lucky it hoped too. Over ten years previously, whether in Detroit or in Dagenham you could stroll to your ford dealer and purchase an Escort. However shy of the odd nondescript part, only the blue oval grill badge was actually a shared component on Ford’s last attempt at a “world car”.
So come 1985 three years after the launch of the Sierra, and a few months after the Granada (Scorpio) launch, John Oldfield (executive director of engineering staff) was given a brief for the replacement of the Sierra and the U.S. market Tempo/Topaz models. 

 

The un-named replacement “CDW27” came to being - C / D the class of car this new model would compete in, W for world.
Oldfield relocated himself back to England, and recruited a team of engineers ready for march 1987, ready to create the “Mondeo”, an altercation of “mondo” or “the world”.