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May11No Comments
Ford of Europe’s model range will have an all-new addition early in 2009 – The Ford Kuga. A preview model of the production vehicle will be presented to the press and public at the 2008 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show, which opens on September 13.
Ford’s European Design team has applied its exciting ‘kinetic design’ form language to introduce a compact and distinctive new 4×4 crossover to the Ford portfolio.
“We recognised that image-conscious customers for this kind of vehicle want a very individual car in which impressive on-road capability blends seamlessly with substantial off-road ability,” said Martin Smith, Executive Design Director for Ford of Europe.
“Kuga will stand out from the crowd by offering the visual excitement of ‘kinetic design’ and the on-road driving quality that customers of cars like the Ford Focus, the S-MAX and the new Mondeo have come to expect from us,” added Smith.
The Ford design team is also releasing its first official styling sketch of the new model.
“Kuga is adventurous and distinctive, and we wanted to highlight this in our first official image,” Stefan Lamm, Ford’s Chief Designer for Exteriors, commented. “We believe that there is a role for a more athletic and charismatic vehicle that marks a departure from the norm, in the same way that the award-winning Ford S-MAX carved out new territory for an MPV.”
The all-new Ford Kuga will go into production early in 2009 at Ford’s Saarlouis plant in Germany. It will be launched across Europe from Spring 2009.
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Feb25No Comments
When Ford began laying out its plan to build European product over here, Ford’s Louisville assembly plant was tipped to build the Euro Focus. But according to sources who spoke to Louisville’s NBC affiliate Wave3, the plant will actually be getting the Ford Kuga. It’s a coup for the plant’s roughly 3,000 employees, who currently build the slow-selling Explorer and its siblings, to now have an undeniably anticipated vehicle to look forward to.
Ford and city and state authorities have been negotiating the fate of the two plants for a while. The truck plant was reportedlysafe, but the assembly plant’s future was uncertain. Ford has said it will spend over $100 million to retool both of its Louisville plants – it also has a truck plant there that makes Super Duty F-Series vehicles – which will save 6,000 jobs. The conversion is expected to take six months and probably won’t be ready until 2011. A Ford spokeswoman had no comment on reports about the Kuga. Hat tip to Juan
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