Ford EcoSport: Low Cost Crossover Released Into The Wastelands Of Europe

The Ford EcoSport, launched last year into the wilds of South America, is being unleashed upon unsuspecting Europeans at the Geneva Motor Show. Handheld nerds already have been given an EcoSport preview at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Ford was in Barcelona to show off its improved SYNC. It has kept its familiar "give me a second while I think about this" responsiveness, as the video above demonstrates. With the EcoSport, Europeans will now be able to savor a car that is making South American soccer moms, I mean, consumers, giddy with pleasure. Could America be next? According to reports, the Fiesta-based EcoSport will slot below the Ford Kuga, and is supposed to mix it up with the Opel Mokka and the Nissan Juke. Europeans will get 3 engine choices: a conventional 1.5L herding 115 horsies, a 1.0L Ecoboost Turbo that ponies up 125hp, and, otherwise it would be doomed in Europe, a 1.5L turbo-diesel that puts 90 hp in the drivers hand. Coming back to the Barcelona preview, the new Ford will offer voice-activated Sync and a Ford version of GM's On Star that'll put the car in contact to the nearest rescue service in case of an accident. Neither system is available in Brazil. Maybe Sync doesn't do Brazilian Portuguese? Or do Portuguese need to talk to the car in Spanish? No word yet as to country of origin. Well, we are sure it won't be made in Belgium. In Spain perhaps? from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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