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Last Auto account – Kuga Coupé on the cruise Ford raises the stakes and expands the Kuga range, including a adventurous two-door 4×4 that’s traveling to be in a chic of its own
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TAKE a attending at the new 4×4 that’s traveling to about-face active on and off-road! This arresting apparatus is a coupé adaptation of Ford’s accepted Kuga, and it’s set to yield appearance to the top of the calendar in the SUV sector.
Now that the Kuga is durably accustomed in the off-road market, Ford has absitively it’s time to aggrandize the range. With affairs to abound the five-door version, there’s allowance for a adventurous little brother that puts the cast in a chic of its own.
As BMW approved with the X6, there is a appeal for cars that amalgamate the aloft basement position SUV buyers adulation with coupé looks and a adventurous active experience. And as you can see in our absolute images, the new Ford absolutely has appearance on its side. Pivotal to the arresting appearance is the badly angled roofline, while the characteristic C-pillar takes some of its afflatus from the three-door Fiesta.
The able-bodied yet able-bodied accommodation are evocative of the aboriginal Iosis X, which previewed the Kuga. A neatly arced rear window, chic roof addle-brain and glassy tail-lights complete the look. At the foreground is an change of the new architecture accent apparent on the Iosis MAX concept. Huge alloys ample beefy arches, the ride acme has been raised, and off-road cues cover foreground and rear drift plates.
The Kuga Coupé will not command an X6-style amount tag or amount a lot to run, though. While the accepted five-door archetypal is a 4×4, a lot of versions of the three-door are acceptable to be awash with two-wheel drive for bigger ammunition abridgement and emissions figures.
Under the bonnet, the newcomer will account from the aforementioned ambit of EcoBoost direct-injection turbocharged petrol engines as the accessible third-generation Focus. These are set to cover a new 1.6-litre turbo, accessible with 148bhp or 178bhp outputs, which will amalgamate affronted clip with accomplished consumption. Diesel options for the Kuga Coupé are traveling to cover a new 128bhp 1.6 TDCi and a flagship 2.0-litre, accessible with 168bhp or 197bhp options.
As for transmissions, a Powershift twin-clutch auto is to be accessible for the aboriginal time on the Kuga. It will an alternative alternativve to the accepted six-speed chiral gearbox. Expect the new archetypal to get stop-start from the factory, too. Sitting on a adapted belvedere from the next-generation Focus, the Kuga Coupé is to accept class-leading active dynamics with aciculate steering, able-bodied controlled physique cycle and affluence of cornering grip.
It will be the sportiest car in its chic and while a lot of sales are acceptable to be front-wheel drive, an all-wheel-drive alternative will aswell be offered. Options such as a across-the-board bottle roof, the latest hi-tech chip sat-nav and Bluetooth compatibility, forth with a abandoning camera, are traveling to advice accomplish the Ford feel every inch the mini X6.
Production is still some way off, though, because Ford’s actual antecedence is the barrage of the new Focus and C-MAX next year. Those are set to be followed by a Vauxhall Meriva-rivalling, Fiesta-based MPV. So we will see the new model, forth with its five-door brother, at a above motor appearance in 2011.
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