Test Drive Ford Kuga since 2012 Crossover

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Boy named "Kuga"

Ford Cuga crossover will soon appear in Russia. He is waiting with impatience, they are asked about him, they are asked secure. Sergey Voskresensky visited the presentation of the novelties. Photo by the author and Ford.
Whatever they claim, for me it is so far one of many. These makers of the machine allocate a special, kinetic design, carried out parallels with a last year's concept of IOSIS H. noted a whimsical lighting, an expressive combination of two radiator grilles, emphasize the dedication, the athletic of the machine. The female part of the journalistic community is right away in some kind of inner defects: a boy. There is no doubt - he is fresh and elegant. But when the mosaic is developing, there is a rather traditional image of a parkerchief, in which, remove a familiar emblem, the look will not immediately allocate family features. Today, crossovers in the market so much that the newcomer needs very good arguments to attract attention. Will they have Kuga?
Fugues from Kug.
Strict, dark interior, combination of smooth lines, corporate rough plastic and smooth silvery parts. Familiar shapes, smells, controls. Having mounted in this merge of Fords (focus and s-max), as if you find yourself at home. Some time is overcome by doubts: what is more sacrifice or a passenger car? But then, due to the high landing that boring a sense of security, solid domestic volume, the visibility comes that let them compact, but the crossover. It is compact, because the hand of the sitting right is adjacent to mine, and in the back seat, it is comfortable together, but they don't get together. But the optional glass roof disrupts the usual sense of closed space, let albeit a little synthetic, but still freedom.

Down with gasoline habits! In a permeated concern for saving European life, everything is different. The greener Diesel quickly gives to understand from 2 liters and 136 turbosets should not wait for something supernatural. He is good, even with a twinkle performs work on the high-speed autobahn, where the tachometer arrow turns out to be in the right (20003000 rpm) range. Under these conditions, Cuga is easy, moving, besides, pampers with excellent acoustic comfort. However, on a mountain serpentine, the engine very sharply denotes the border does not go, the machine becomes a demanding choice. The driver turns in almost the athlete forced to continuously work the lever. The task is not to drop the tachometer arrow below 1500 rpm. Allowed an oversight, and the car ceases to respond to the accelerator pedal. The most common automatic machine of such a diesel would be quite by the way, but such a transmission in a pair with a 200-strong gasoline engine only in perspective.
The power of traditions
Machine creators emphasize: Kug is focused mainly on asphalt. Engineers have a lot of worried about the design of the design, the characteristics of the suspension, the nuances of the automatically connected full drive. In their opinion, the work as a whole succeeded. We'll see?
The road like music: the main thing to get into the beat, and then Cuga will fly over most irregularities. Rods, Pits, Promients

on a pretty taped gravel coating, almost silently disappear under the wheels, causing only smooth saming of the body. The crossover does not promise a lot, and in serious cords it is better to slow down. But the fact that it is designed to be on parquet, but off-road, to a certain extent, is wondering.
On the distant from the ideal asphalt impressions change: other speeds, amplitudes of oscillations. Here the suspension is too elastic, too much in detail the road profile, allowing a sharp vertical split on deep waves. Under these conditions shakes pretty. But in the suspensions there is a solid reserve, almost like an adult soldier.
So, now make a set of electric power steering, exhausting it with a sport and partly it is an opportunity to fumble proud. The controllability of the Couff is without that kind: understandable and weighted reactions, moderate body rolls, sufficient feedback. At first, the car seems even unnecessary solid. He reliably performs the driver teams without showing excessive activity: they say so safer.
However, if you do not stop there, soon it becomes clear that Ford with automatically connected full drive is capable of greater. Of course, hitting the Cold, he will sometimes blow up in a turn. But on the smooth canvas of the wisdom

spanish serpentine Cuga, as an experienced swimmer, sniffs in the blisters. Slightly overestimated the possibilities, he will immediately tell me, smoothly shutting up the turn outward. And then without unnecessary fuss will return to the specified trajectory. Not a passenger car, of course, but rides simply, it is clear, and most importantly, reliably.
Predictable popularity
For me, he remained one of many: comfortable, good, cute. He undoubtedly has character, original solutions and finds, but in this background there is a lack of variety of options. However, still ahead.
In Russia, interest in the car is huge, although the crossover market seems already oversaturated. It seems that the name of Ford has become so popular that he serves as a guarantee of the success of the model. Cuga is not bad prepared for our lives. Does diesel confuse you or not very popular on the mechanics parquets? It is worth a little wait, and a 2.5-liter gasoline version with a machine gun will appear in the domestic market. It seems the overestimated base price from 880,000 rubles for trend, 960,000 for Titanium? And it took into account Ford accountants. For Europe, the front-wheel drive version has already been made, which will obviously supply to Russia. Ford Cuga's compact crossovers will appear on sale at the beginning of summer._x0008_

Ford Kuga Typical Ford: Comfortable, thoughtful, good, calculated on the mass consumer.
Transplant organ
Taking the basis of proven technologies and components of the Focus and C-Mach chassis, engineers recycled for Cuga geometry of suspension and steering elements. The ground clearance of the crossover is increased to 188 mm, for giving the best stability, they made the base and a kola. The creators emphasize that the borrowing of the details is not direct copying. Increased rear shock absorbers, optimized front settings. The design of the transverse stability stabilizer, the upper supports of the suspension, are used, other wheel bearings are used.
A lot of attention was paid to the connection of the full drive using a multid-wide coupling. The torque resulting to the rear wheels varies from 10 to 50%, depending on the conditions of movement, acceleration, rotation angles of the steering wheel and the position of the throttle.
Sergey Voskresensky