Test Drive Ford Kuga since 2012 Crossover
Question priorities. Test Ford Kuga.
City crossover is something average automotive. The universal thing that is able to do everything gradually, but almost nothing perfectly. But even such cars are able to fall in love. To do this, you just should not worship the brand or be a gourmet driver. You will simply be grateful to the car for the fact that it is comfortable and easily cuts out in most situations. Of the variety, you simply select the design in the shower and a suitable price, and buying almost certainly will be successful. New kuga is just such a good machine for every day. But to describe the new crossover the only word-sensitive word would be just dishonest.
Kuga last generation looked boldly, smoking. But, contrary to the modern fashion for aggression, the appearance of a new car as a whole has become friendlier: the head of the headlights softened, due to the increased windows to the cabin, there was more light to penetrate, and the body had a little gone in all the dimensions, adding solidity. The new appearance is formed by the details: muscular arches, a trio of expressive lines on the sidewalls, intricate the plastic of the trunk doors. Yes, and inside the present three-dimensional rue, a kind of two-story-acround avant-garde. 
The new pistachio color of the body looks extremely winning front panel Padt asymmetric details, buttons, buttons and textures of finishing materials: here and gloss, and mat, plastic, and leather, and all these are different shades. In the Couples Salon, you will still open new items for yourself if the interior liked immediately, then you will get bored soon. Moreover, the Folders are not helpful proud of the quality of the assembly and the care of the selection of materials: all buttons have a backlight, and most of the small elements, whether the keys on the steering wheel or doors, are not simply nominally present, but also contribute to the aesthetics of the interior. 
Particular attention chairs great shape and not only pleases the eye, but also the body. The seats are expensive, and their combined finish is very practical. At the same time, the interiorners did not disappoint an even the second series of this concerns not only the appearance, but also the presence of adjustment by the slope of the cut back. Add here a scattered lighting of the cabin, a panoramic roof, a colorful (but damp) Multimedia system Sync like an Explorer older brother, and a thousand and one facet of the interior. Not bad it turns out the habitat! There is also no tactile sensation and quality of the assembly of questions. There is no interior of Cuga. 
Against the background of the general sense of quality, it is surprised by a strange drawing of some fonts. For example, blurry letters on the climate control unit. There is aige in this detail and promises: the climate screen is always challenged, so the information on it is not easy to disassemble. The gear selector gear selector is almost as masterful as the Chevrolet Malibu sedan. In Ford, the pitchfork plus-minus is located on the side end of the knob and almost as unsuitable for use 
Each passenger is laid on the ceiling above the door. The glove box has a solid volume and a removable shelf exemplary design of the cabin seek. Combinations of engines and transmissions We will have the following: 1.6 ECOBOOST gasoline turbo engine is available in the 150-strong version with front-wheel drive and 6-speed mechanics or in a 182-strong version with a full drive and a classic hydrotransformer box, too, six-speed. If you want a diesel engine, it will be a two-liter 140-strong machine with a full drive and a wet two-chaired robot about 6 transmissions. Later, perhaps a 163-strong option of the same diesel engine will appear, already available in Europe. Regarding the origin of the power units, the gasoline made from conventional fokusovskogo aspirated and diesel Duratorq-TDCi familiar to us from previous generations Kuge, but has a higher degree of forcing due to small structural differences. As we see, the downsayzing trend has not bypassed the Ford Kuga former 200-strong gasoline engine volume of 2.5 liters no longer rely. 
Noise isolation. Excellent: on acoustic comfort KUGA may well be with larger and expensive machines. Moreover, engineers paid special attention to aerodynamics with an open sliding roof section, so it is possible to sunbathe even on the way and when you get behind the wheel, you immediately understand why. This is a comfortable and relaxed car with excellent noise insulation. It will be great to push in a lazy traffic jam, considering the salon confctees of the bizarre form, or go to friends on a picnic on weekends. It is unlikely that someone will come to the head to unscrew the low-income motors, squeezing in the hands of the beautiful, but if a fragile four-spin bay. Kuga sets up on the dimension, peace, serenity. As soon as you start to ride faster, zero information from the front wheels is beaten off every desire to drive. But to scare yourself with careful actions by the wheel of Kuga, the driver can hardly be able to hardly (or whether it is necessary?) The stabilization system will wage much earlier. True, you do not expect such a quick intervention in any way at the chassis, the Kuga chassis quickly comes quickly. But even this limit is nothing terrible, since the crossover simply smoothly slides outside all four. Or maybe we shod in off-road tires? Nothing like the rubber is more than light, contipremiumcontact2. To get from the management Kugoy fun, just try not in a hurry. 
COFI brakes are quite decent, but the pedal requires a small addiction because of its emergency lightness, I tried a 182-strong and 163-strong versions: more powerful gasoline almost nothing issues the presence of a turbine and smoothly lucky in the entire range of revolutions as a two-liter atmospheric. Diesel is a little more interesting, since from one and a half to three thousand, the supercharger kick is felt, but not such a fearful rumble is becoming. But the sound of Diesel is excellent: besides the usual cod, the engine publishes a bass rokot. And the transmission has more like the gasoline machine: the machine almost does not lose the robot in the switching speed, but the touch on it is familiar to the usual velvet, unlike a rescued twin-shore jerk. On the off-road, this car is designed to the same way as most of the modern crossovers: with a clearance of 188 millimeters, an unconnected anti-test system and an electron-proof clutch in the rear axle drive, it is far from you, but it can be spoiled onto that beautiful clean. The suspension of the previous Kuga did not differ in omnivore, and the current also does not like a quick ride on the seeking road. You will just get sorry for the car. Although the geometry is not bad and allows you to not be afraid for the plumage and aggregates under the bottom, if you do not put in front of the super-lacking machine. 
Along with the road lumen in 188 mm, the drive to all wheels will give the opportunity in winter to look at the owners of the invalid cars when the parking place is selected, but no longer-wheel drive transmission is based on a multi-disc coupling that transmits this or that quantity of torque to the rear wheels. The change in the amount of thrust on the rear wheels depends on the sensor signals, that is, it is clearly based on this principle, most of the full drive systems in this class works. On the asphalt, the transmission of Cuga works as it should be assumed: it simply does not give out its presence. On the light off-road opportunities of the system enough, and in more difficult conditions, it remains to hope for the help of an electronic torque distribution system operating on the basis of a stabilization system, selectively biting boncakes. Representatives of the brand call Cuhouse with the most technological Forend of today. Indeed, the useful electronic missiles is a whole mass: it is an active cruise control, tracking blind zones and a traffic strip, a car trapper, traction control, scattered interior highlighting and much more. Did not forget about the peak of cross-line fashion: like the newly tested Subaru Forester, the trunk is electrified here. Only in Ford went even further and made a system that opened the cargo compartment on the rear bumper pink. At the same time, for security purposes, the key of contactless access should lie in your pocket. With such a function, it is not just convenient to load a week of food from the supermarket, but you can please your children with a spectacular stycle in Sesame style, open! 
Among the competitors of Cuga countless models sold in the Russian market. Here are some names that everyone has a hearing: this is a Honda CR-V, Nissan X-Trail, Subaru Forester, Mitsubishi Outlander, Mazda CX-5, Toyota Rav4, Volkswagen Tiguan, Opel Antara and many others Yes, Kuga does not amaze running qualities But most of her drivers will never demand them. They need comfort, peace and aesthetics. And still the security with which the Couff is full of order is not whatever, first place in Euroncap tests in your class! It is a question of priorities, which in the case of urban SUVs is typically shifted towards the comfort and beauty. Kuga has become an adult and modern, and has every chance to bite off her piece of market cake. We are waiting for the start of sales in April. Text: Dmitry Laskov Photos of the company Ford and author A source: AUTO.Mail.Ru.
