Ford Snatches Away the Focus Active, Leaving Future Low-end Buyers With the EcoSport and What Else?

U.S. Ford Focus production ended in May, but the automaker planned to import the next-generation Focus Active, a slightly lifted, mildly cladded five-door, in order to have something to sell to entry-level buyers. With the subcompact Fiesta ceasing production early next spring and the Fusion following it a couple of years later, that left very […]

2018 Ford EcoSport Driven: Think Small

– If the SUV has become the vehicular avatar of suburbia, then all those hulking Ford Expeditions and their ilk are the McMansions of the highway. But every trend must produce a countertrend—in real estate, that’s the tiny-house phenomenon, whose devotees reject the ballooning size of the American tract house. In the automobile market, one […]

Ford’s new EcoSport compact crossover will start just under $21K

There’s news on Ford‘s new entrant in the subcompact crossover segment, the EcoSport, a car that was first revealed way back in 2016 via Snapchat. Car and Driver reports the EcoSport — it’s pronounced like “echo,” not like “EcoBoost” — will start at $ 20,990, among the lowest in a class that includes the Honda […]