What Car Your Thoughts Please

[deesun]

Friend has an older AU and is looking to update a little. Family man 2 small kids not expanding. He asked about how my FG is but his budget is 2008 XT so I said hard to compare 2009 XR6T which I love. I checked the under 15k cars today not knowing his limit and saw some Mondeo TDCI's in the price bracket. They dont have much power but very good P/W ratio. It would probably be slightly higher servicing but lower fuel costs and plenty of fruit compared to bare bones XT. In his position I would lean to Mondeo. Whats your thoughts?