Ford is no longer offering the Ford Mondeo, Ford Galaxy or Ford S-Max with a diesel engine, so all three cars are now available exclusively with a hybrid system.
The Mondeo – which will only be on sale for a matter of months before the nameplate is permanently retired – and the two MPVs were previously offered with a 2.0-litre Ecoblue unit with output ranging from 150-240bhp but now use only an electrified petrol unit pushing out 185-187bhp, mated to a CVT gearbox.
Ecoblue options remain visible on Ford’s UK configurator, but the latest price lists omit the option.
Ford has now dropped diesel from four model lines, having axed the Ecoblue-powered Fiesta in 2020 due to “very, very low” sales.
The Ford Focus retains its 1.5-litre (2.0-litre in the Ford Focus ST) diesel option, but it's due an extensive mid-life facelift imminently, and it remains to be seen whether that will continue.
Diesel is also available for the Tourneo Connect and Tourneo Custom MPVs, which are derived from the Transit commercial van.
When it launched the Ford S-Max Hybrid and Ford Galaxy Hybrid earlier this year, Ford was keen to highlight that a WLTP-certified consumption rating of 43.5-44.1mpg was in line with the diesel variants, with the added benefit of significantly reduced emissions. It made a similar claim about the hybrid version of the Ford Kuga SUV, though that retains its diesel option for now.
Ford isn't the only manufacturer to have slashed its diesel offering recently. A decline in demand and increasingly tough emissions legislation were factors in the Mazda 6 going petrol-only, Volvo pulling diesel from the S90 and XC40 ranges and Seat ending diesel Arona and Ibiza sales.
Autocar has reached out to Ford for an official comment.
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A shame about the reduced powertrain options, S-MAX is a big car and needs as much grunt as it can get.
So what is Good Old Henry gonna do about all those hard working people at their Dagenham Diesel plant? Diesels dead, innit, Petrol too, so Ford has gotta come up with a solution about the future of the Essex plant. But typically Ford is gonna pitch the future of Dagenham with that of their Saarlois plant and see if the British or German governments will pay to convert one of them to a battery plant. It'll probably go to Germany purely because they have got the biggest pockets.