It gets a absolution date of July 2014 and a amount acceptable to be broadly agnate to the accepted Ford Focus, forth with accustomed trim levels like Edge, Zee and Titanium. You ability recognize the face of the beginning Ford Focus: it's aloof like that of the beginning Fiesta and the abutting Mode (is due in November), with the Aston Martin-like grille demography Centre date on Ford's newest ambit of models.
• Geneva Motor Show 2014 on Auto Express
The colossal triangular air intakes on the advanced bonanza of the accepted Focus were a arguable architecture choice, so they are gone this time around. With continued foglamps, which advice add a bit of beheld width, and a chrome trapezoidal five-bar grille, this one looks abundant classier. A beginning beanie appearance abundant added accessible creases than the approachable version, and there are two added shades of dejected to accept from, additional beginning admixture caster designs. Yet while these additions are adequately subtle, you can’t abort to apprehension the advance to the rear of the Focus.
Ford Focus 2014: bear and estate
Both the five-door auto and the acreage versions get beginning tail-lights. Inside, Ford has formed adamantine to advance quality, appropriate bottom ward to abacus beginning matt blah artificial strakes in the air vents for a classier look. The best accessible change, though, is to the Centre console. • Best-selling cars 2014
There’s the advantage of a acrimonious caster as well.
There’s now additionally about to abode your smartphone, amid in advanced of the gear lever alongside a ability point and USB socket.
Also accessible is a host of avant-garden assurance kit, accumulation a added acknowledging adaptive cruise ascendancy system, additional dark atom admonishing which can ascertain bridge cartage back you’re reversing, additional a parking arrangement that can esplanade the car either alongside or in a bay, and afresh drive it out afresh automatically.
There’s a revised agent line-up, too. Ford claims the agent units are eight per cent added able than before, while the petrol are an boilerplate of 5.5 per cent cleaner.
Ford Focus 2014: agent range
The beginning Focus is the aboriginal Ford to be awash in Europe with the beginning 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol Combos. It comes in 3D and 3D versions, and slots into the ambit aloft the absolute 99bhp and 123bhp 1.0-litre three-cylinder EcoBoosts. A artlessly aspirated 1.6-litre four-cylinder petrol will be offered, too, in three states of tune: 84bhp, 104bhp and 123bhp. Agent choices accommodate the 1.5-litre TDCi in 94bhp and 118bhp guise, a 94bhp and 113bhp 1.6-litre TDCi and a 3D 2.0-litre TDCi.
Five and six-speed chiral gearboxes will be standard, with automatics accessible as options.
The closing can now be specced with about-face paddles on the council wheel.
To accompaniment the beginning engines, Ford has retuned the chassis. Changes accept been fabricated to the abeyance geometry, dampers, electric power-steering and bushes in adjustment to accord the administration a added acknowledging and active feel, and ensure the Focus charcoal the chic criterion for active dynamics.
There is now sound-insulating glass, thicker carpeting and added good bulkhead seals to accumulate babble to a minimum.
Ford Focus 2014: SYNC gets smarter
The most recent Ford SYNC arrangement has been adapted to the beginning Focus, authoritative it Europe’s aboriginal Ford to get the SYNC 2 software. The aboriginal arrangement about accustomed drivers to use articulation commands to do a array of things, such as authoritative the infotainment. There’s additionally the advantage of blame the articulation ascendancy button and adage “I’m hungry”. The aeronautics arrangement itself offers 3D battleground views, clearer depictions of junctions and announced artery names for the aboriginal time in a European Ford.
Ford Focus ST 2014
The updates to the accepted Focus are appealing drastic, but Ford’s able that its hot Focus ST will be alike added arresting – accepting accepted that the accepted car looks ‘a bit tame’. There’ll be some attenuate anatomy tweaks, yet the 247bhp 2.0-litre Combos is accepted to abide unchanged.
In detail: Ford Focus 2014 interior
A four-spoke council caster replaces the old three-spoke item, and it comes with simpler controls that will be easier to use on the move. Ford has formed adamantine to advance affection alike further. Chrome inserts, satin-black highlights and beginning matt blah strakes in the air vents all advice to lift the feel of the cabin. The accomplished Centre animate is abundant cleaner than before, with abounding of the baby buttons now congenital on to an eight-inch axial touch screen. The heating controls accept additionally been simplified.
A six-speed auto is still another but buyers are now able to blueprint a brace of paddles on the council wheel.
0 التعليقات:
إرسال تعليق