The Ford Puma Is Coming Back... As A Compact Crossover

A Fiesta-based 'Puma' will soon be joining the Ford stable, but it'll be a crossover rather than a coupe
The Ford Puma Is Coming Back... As A Compact Crossover

The idea of a new Ford Puma is quite exciting, isn’t it? The current Fiesta is a brilliant car, so the prospect of a cute coupe based on the supermini - and perhaps a hotter version using the guts of the incredible Fiesta ST - has the makings of an affordable sports car hero.

But there’s a problem: people don’t buy coupes anymore. The average new car buyer cares more about high-riding stuff, which is why Ford is bringing back the Puma name for, you guessed it, a compact crossover. Sigh.

Ford is actually calling it an “SUV-inspired crossover,” whatever that means, but the result will be the sort of thing you’d expect - a Fiesta-based creation with a reasonable amount of ride height. Think of it as a Fiesta Active with extra sportiness.

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Although we’ll have to wait another few months to see the Puma in full, Ford has released a few details about the car. For instance, the boot space: you’ll have 456 litres to fill, which is class-leading.

Then there’s the engine: it’ll be a 1.0-litre Ecoboost inline-three mated to a 48-volt hybrid system, with an output of 153bhp. Perhaps the 1.5-litre Fiesta ST engine might make an appearance at some point.

The Puma will be available to order at the end of 2019. It’ll be built at the Blue Oval’s Craiova Assembly Plant in Romania.

Comments

Twopoint0

Wow nicely done ford, I surely wasn’t expecting another crossover

04/03/2019 - 09:04 |
10 | 0
2003 Peugeot 206 CC

What the f*ck

04/03/2019 - 09:07 |
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Roadduck414

Why would they want to call it a Puma? It is not like every person I meet says “I wish they made a new Puma”.

They could have called it Capri, Escort, Sierra or something completely new.

Puma just because it is based on the Fiesta?

04/03/2019 - 09:07 |
34 | 0

The “cool” people of 90s/2000s owned Coupes. The “cool” people of today own crossovers. They literally target the same audience.

04/03/2019 - 10:46 |
6 | 8

I’d rather not see Ford ruin the Capri name too.

04/03/2019 - 15:53 |
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ᴶᵘˢᵗᴬᴿᵃⁿᵈᵒá

In reply to by Roadduck414

Nuh uh, don’t let ‘em touch those names with their crossover-tainted arms

04/04/2019 - 06:31 |
0 | 0
alepittau

Tiff Needell can’t drift with a crossover :(

04/03/2019 - 09:10 |
26 | 0
Jefferson Tan(日産)

In reply to by alepittau

Fifth gear

yes

yes

04/04/2019 - 07:34 |
4 | 0
Anonymous

keep it, cause we don’t want it

04/03/2019 - 09:26 |
20 | 0
Lauge

APRIL FOOLS IS OVER FORD. What the hell?!

04/03/2019 - 09:47 |
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Tomislav Celić

In reply to by Lauge

Eclipse No 2

04/03/2019 - 10:43 |
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Tomislav Celić

In reply to by Lauge

Now to be real here. Puma was a car for women. Women used to like coupes. Now they like crossovers. Same as Eclipse. They are targeting the exact same market that bought Eclipse/Puma back in the day

04/03/2019 - 10:44 |
22 | 10
Anonymous

They went full Mitsubishi again

04/03/2019 - 10:09 |
14 | 0
Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Not really.
Same target audience

04/03/2019 - 12:32 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

So first the eclipse now the puma whats next the next wrx sti is based on a forester?

04/03/2019 - 10:17 |
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Matthew Henderson

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I’m just gonna leave this here

04/03/2019 - 15:35 |
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Wogmidget
04/03/2019 - 10:20 |
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UnknownCat13

I don’t get he mindset for using old names for crossovers. Anyone who knows anything about cars hates it, because it’s sacrilege, and anyone who doesn’t know about the original, doesn’t care what it’s called anyway.

04/03/2019 - 10:25 |
16 | 0

People, including me, hate to hear it but that’s the truth

04/03/2019 - 12:55 |
2 | 0

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