June 18, 2013

Electric Ford Focus starts European production

Photo of Ford Focus EV Europe

Ford has started to build the electric Ford Focus in Saarlouis, in Germany, alongside the regular Focus, with the Focus EV reaching customers in July. The electric Ford Focus is already in production, and on sale, in the USA, and now it’s gone in to production in Germany ahead of arriving with owners in July. So [...]

Engine of the Year Winners: Ford 1.0 litre EcoBoost is top dog

Ford 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine photo

The Ford 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine has won the Engine of the Year Award 2013 with the highest ever score for an engine in the awards history. If anything is going to overturn the received wisdom that all small cars should come with a diesel engine, it’s Ford’s 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine. Torquey, lively and [...]

Ford EcoSport, Kuga & Edge SUVs will drive Ford’s sales

Photo 2013 Ford Kuga SUV

Ford CEO Alan Mulally is driving Ford’s sales forward by focusing on the still burgeoning market for smaller SUVs, like the EcoSport, Kuga and Edge. In 2010 we decided that the Ford Kuga was the inheritor of Ford’s ‘Family Car’ crown, as it offered everything a traditional family saloon does but in a more practical package. [...]

Is the Ford Fiesta ST more powerful in the US than the UK?

Ford Fiesta ST

The new Ford Fiesta ST is advertised in the UK as having a little over 180bhp, but the US version of the Fiesta ST has 200bhp. Is the US getting a more powerful ST. The new Ford Fiesta ST is an appealing little ‘slightly better than warm’ hatch at an attractive price (from just under [...]

Ford Fiesta eWheelDrive gets wheel hub electric motors

Ford Fiesta eWheelDrive

Ford has partnered with German specialist Schaeffler to build the Fiesta eWheelDrive EV with electric motors in the rear wheel hubs as a research vehicle. Car makers haven’t entirely given up on the idea of the electric car, although they do seem to be starting to move to the point where the EV is seen as an urban [...]

Ford Escort returns – for China: Shanghai Motor Show

Photo Ford Escort Concept China

Ford has revealed a new Escort Concept for the Chinese market at the 2013 Shanghai Motor Show as a new compact saloon for the local market. It’s more than thirty years since Ford built an Escort saloon (well, unless you count the Ford Orion of the 1980s, which was an Escort with a boot grafted [...]

New Ford Mondeo to get new 1.5 litre EcoBoost engine

New Ford Mondeo Photo

Ford is launching a new 1.5 litre EcoBoost engine to replace the 1.6 litre currently offered and offering improved economy. Ford are premiering a new 1.5 litre EcoBoost engine for the Mondeo, which will get its premier at the Shanghai Motor Show later this month when it debuts in China. The new EcoBoost engine will [...]

2013 Ford Mondeo: Price cuts & new models

Photo of 2013 Ford Mondeo

Ford is trying to give the 2013 Mondeo a lift with two new models – Mondeo Graphite and Titanium X Business Edition – and price cuts. Before you get too excited, this 2013 Ford Mondeo isn’t the all-new Mondeo – the one that’s already launched in China and on sale in the US as the Ford [...]

Ford Focus is the best selling car…in the world

Photo of Ford Focsu best selling car in the world

Automotive data experts Polk have declared that the best selling car in the world in 2012 was the Ford Focus, selling more than 1 million. Polk, probably the world’s leading automotive data analysts, have revealed that the Ford Focus was the best selling car in the world in 2012, selling 1,020,410 cars across the globe. [...]

New Ford Kuga production increased to meet strong demand

Photo New Ford Kuga

Ford has revealed that it having to increase production of the new Kuga by 10 per cent at its Valencia Plant to meet strong demand. Three years ago, when we reviewed the Ford Kuga, we decided that the Kuga, rather than the Mondeo or Focus, was the true inheritor of the affordable family car mantle [...]