Get acquainted with the modernized crossover Ford Kuga. From the first, pre-seventive party. The car has become courageous, got new engines and improved electronics. Listened to Ford Sollers and to the remarks of experts "driving."
KUGA-2017 - In essence, deep modernization is already famous car. But Fordovtsov for some reason call it a new model.
On the passing plant of Ford Sollers in Elabuga we are welcomed by a thin guy.
My name is Mikhail Melnikov, I am a leading engineer on the launch of new models.
Mikhail will take me a hand, and in the left holds the March issue of the journal "driving", in which Dorentyling Kuga could not defeat competitors in comparative test. Otherwise, I am waiting for the analysis of flights.
I am your longtime reader, has not missed a single number from five years! In school years, even sent a letter to the heading "You wrote to us." A week later, I called Mikhail Kolodochki from the editorial office and disappeared: it turned out that the illustrations sent by me are not suitable for printing. Well, okay, communication with him for me, the boys, was already happiness! So we came - this is your kuga. True, beauty?
I did not find what to answer. Yes, Kuga became more beautiful. But a huge zev of the radiator lattice gave a crossover a fair portion of brutality, male start. Do not beautiful - handsome man!
Bumpers, hood and head optics have been transformed - now the headlights have a bixenon filling and know how to change the configuration of the light beam depending on the conditions of movement and external lighting. Rear lights and trunk doors adjusted, but it can be seen only against the background of the dorestayling car.
I arrived in Elabuga long before the start of sales, so in my hands the car from the first, pre-seventive party. Price, as you understand, I do not know yet. (Prices were made public on December 8. - Approx. Ed.)
Jumping into the salon. Yeah, cost point improvements. A new three-spoke steering wheel with a more comfortable rim. Instead of an ordinary handler, the parking electromechanical brake key appeared - and the place was released for a niche with a neat sliding curtain. The ceiling was prescribed the ERA-GLONASS system module. The chairs that I first liked, thanks to the elongated pillow and the pursed sidewalls on the back became even more convenient.
In the initial modifications, the display, on the contrary, is too simple. Find the golden middle ...
The trip-computer screen in advanced versions is overloaded with information. From her abundance ripples in the eyes.
The sync multimediasystem received new brains. Fords assure that its speed has grown an order of magnitude, and the navigator is trained to put the route taking into account traffic jams.
The interior design did not change fundamentally - it still looks important. On the center console, a button for switching on the heating of the steering wheel appeared. It is high time!
The climate control buttons became larger, so now the likelihood of missed by the right one is minimal.
Podruty petals ( basic equipment) - One of the main acquisitions of Kuga.
Kuga became the first russian Ford With the ERA-GLONASS module.
-Wellows reduced two degrees temperature at the first stage of seats heating, since there were many complaints about excessive heat. We take a very carefully to constructive criticism and try to respond quickly on it. In his comparative test, you wrote that the machine of this level is obliged to have a steering wheel and at least two USB ports. Get - and write down! Pugs abundance buttons on the center console? Their number reduced almost twice. And they also introduced the heated area of \u200b\u200bthe parking lot of janitors, which is included with the heating of side mirrors and rear windows. In our climate - the necessary thing.
Mikhail do not hold. A minute later, I learned that the Fords have a major cause for pride - an improved Multimedia SYNC system 3 with voice control. Compared to the previous one, it is much more productive, and the interaction with smartphones on Android and IOS platforms is expensive. And instead of a small display on the central console, an eighty-lean touchscreen is shoved. The navigator has learned to lay the route with traffic jams. All as we love.
In the basic multimediasystem, the display is no more than that of the Soviet hours electronics.
In the Trend Plus version, the screen is already solid - with a diagonal of five inches.
There is progress and the rest of the electronics. In particular, the automatic braking system Active City Stop opened at the speeds of up to 50 km / h (earlier - up to 30 km / h). The selfarchist now puts the car not only parallel to the sidelines, but also perpendicularly. In addition, it will help to leave closest parking - for many it is another task. Finally, Cross Traffic Alert system makes departure from parking reverse Sustier - warns the driver with sound and light signals, if it rolls out the nearby car.
In addition, I was introduced the MyKey system, which allows you to program keys at your discretion. You can leave ourselves "unlimited", and the spouse give a "prepared" instance with the speed limit of the speed and volume of the sound of the audio system, the ban on the task of the target to the navigator when moving, the pudded threshold of the minor fuel reserve - for its own use.
After updating, diesel engines disappeared from the gamma of the engines - with tiny demand, it was unprofitable to mess with them. A 2,5-liter gasoline. 150-strong atmospheric is combined solely with the front drive: such machines choose more than half of customers. 
Turbo engine 1.5 came to a change of 1.6-liter. The power is the same, but the cooling of the air coming from the turbine is carried out in it with a liquid, and not an air intercooler. Fuel consumption decreased by 7%.
Former 1.6 L (150 or 182 hp) 1.5 ECOBOOST in the focus of 1.5 ECOBOOST is inflicted. The abbreviations of the cube achieved a decrease in the stroke of the piston. New motors made CUGU a little more economical. They correspond to Euro-6 ecoconormors and adapted to 92th gasoline, while earlier it was required exclusively 95th.
In my disposal - top 182-strong KUGA. It is not so vividly, as you expect, acceleration up to hundreds takes more than ten seconds. Extra "Horses" are lost in the wilds full drive And the six-speed vehicle 6F35, which entered the basic equipment of Kuga (versions with mechanics no longer, because it did not find demand). Even in the gym, the box is haunted with Lenza.
I was pleased with the fact that in manual transmission mode, they are now changing with the familiar submissive petals, and not the key to the selector, which was uncomfortable.
The old motor during the acceleration "in the floor" vested that there is urine, and one and a half liter does not break off on a cry. Yes, and road noises are now muted better than the previous one. Is it really enough to use two-layer side front winds?
This is the result of our specialists. Modernized Cuga. russian assembly Received additional sound insulation of the bottom, therefore, the acoustic comfort has significantly improved. You also criticized it in that comparative test ...
And Melnikov poked his finger into our text. Nothing, nothing, the constructive criticism did not interfere with anyone - that Kuga was transformed. 
Front armchairs are good: Good profile, wide adjustment ranges, tenacious upholstery. 
I really liked the practical bodies, which make it possible between the seat and the threshold. 
Rear passengers are spacious and convenient. To their services - a back with an adjustable angle of inclination and folding tables. In the rich modifications, the rear passengers are offered a 220-volt socket (left). In simple versions instead of it - a 12-volt power supply (right).
The chassis of the transformations has not been undergone. And it is right. Riding properties have always been strong side Kuga. In sincerity, efforts on the steering wheel, stability on the trajectory and delicacy of the settings of the stabilization system with Kuga can compete except Volkswagen Tiguan.
Sorry, it was not possible to get a 150-strong turboverness! Judging by the technical data, it does not particularly lose the flagship. Therefore, I do not see the reason for the more powerful modification. The motive for her purchase can be except that the equipment is not available for versions with motors. By the way, all the configurations became richer. Thus, in the basic version of Trend (available only with the 2.5 motor) in addition to the electric car, the audio system, air conditioning, heating the side mirrors, seven airbags, ESP and fontamilies appeared LED running lights, steering wheel petals, as well as the MyKey system.
Road clearance 198 mm and the beveled bumper allow you to confidently move around the complex relief. For complete happiness, there is not enough blocking of a multid-wide coupling. 
Ludar system of autotorrow, operating now at speeds up to 50 km / h, installed at the salon mirror.
Adaptive bisenon headlights - option even for the flagship version of Titanium Plus.
Trend Plus version (offered with both 150-strong engines) in addition to roofing reling double-zone climate control, Electrical heating nozzles, windshield and front seats received heating steering wheel and coast zones of janitors, a parking brake key, an audio system with a larger color screen and a second USB port, as well as 17-inch alloy wheels.
Titanium is available with any of the proposed motors. If it first added a combined finish (leather plus cloth), invincible access system, cruise control, self-implancing salon mirror, light and rain sensors, 220-volt rosette for rear passengers and tinting rear windows, now the Sync multimedia system has been added to this list. 3.
Shortly before the trip to the Elabuzhsky plant I met with european version Kuga. With the exception of the Russian adaptation package (ERA-GLONASS, additional noise insulation of the bottom and all kinds of heating), all the same - and design, and technique. The mansion is worth the 182-strong KUGA in the consequential execution of SL Line. Her body is decorated aerodynamic kites, And the radiator grille and lighting instead of chromium are decorated with black gloss. Keyfulness - In the suspension: more rigid springs, shock absorbers and stabilizer are installed transverse stability. In addition, 10 mm reduced ground clearance. All this made CUGU slightly more collected and accurate in turns, but there is no fundamental difference in manageability between it and the standard machine. Now, if in addition to listed innovations, the Fordovtsy increased the capacity at least up to two hundred "horses" ... however, we are what? In Russia, Kuga St Line will not be sold.
The flagship version of Titanium Plus can only be with a 182-strong engine. As before, the list of equipment includes a leather interior, a driver's armchair electrically regulating, a roof with a panoramic view, Mirrors with illumination of the near-door space and the electric folding, the function of the contactless opening of the trunk, an enlarged rear spoiler. And from the new - selfarchist, adaptive bisenon headlights, rear view camera, navigator. For this version, only one is offered additional option - Pack of electronic assistants.
In complete ammunition, the updated KUGA is perceived by noble and clearer predecessor. During the modernization, it got rid of many shortcomings, and in the next comparative test she will have a chance to recoup.
As part of today's European presentation, Ford rid out eight electrified models on stage, including a fully electric transit, which will become serial only in two years, but the press focus was expected to be riveted to the new Kug. The third generation crossover borrowed a C2 platform from the focus of the focus of the fourth generation and acquired a more passenger posture, since it became 20 mm below, 89 mm is longer and 44 mm wider. Note that our artist still in almost completely guessed the appearance of the crossover. The new platform allowed to reduce the curb weight of the Cuga about 90 kg, while the rigidity of the body for twist increased by 10%.
1 / 6
2 / 6
3 / 6
4 / 6
5 / 6
6 / 6
Compared to the predecessor, the wheelbase rose from 2690 to 2710 mm, so that in the back seat Kuga became a little more spacious. The volume of the trunk is not yet named, it is only known that it can be increased by 67 liters, if you move the mounted on the sled backseat Maximum forward. From the driver's seat, the new KUGA is almost completely identical to the focus of the fourth generation, and, in essence, the only "chip" of the crossover is a virtual 12.3-inch virtual instrument shield, while the multimedia display diagonal on the center console is only 8 inches. In addition to the main shield, a retractable transparent workshop on the visor is proposed, on which operational data is displayed using the projector - for example, speed and navigation tips.
1 / 4
2 / 4
3 / 4
4 / 4
For the new KUGA stated already three hybrid power plants. The PLUG-IN Hybrid consists of a 2.5-liter gasoline "atmospheric" operating on the atkinson cycle, an electric motor and a lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 14.4 kWh. The cumulative power of the rechargeable hybrid is 225 hp, the turn of the electric shock is 50 km, and the full charge of the battery from the household outlet takes 4 hours.
1 / 2
2 / 2
The usual hybrid Kuga (without the possibility of charging from the external source) is also arranged, but its specifications Not yet disclosed - such a modification will appear only in 2020. And the simplest soft hybrid is built on the basis of the 150-strong 2.0-liter Ecoblue turbodiesel, to which the auxiliary 48-volt starter generator is simply screwed, which gives additional power during accelerations and allows you to save fuel. The 190th version of the same diesel engine will be put on a CUG without a hybrid imagination, as well as a 120-strong diesel engine 1.5 Ecoblue and gasoline "turbotroix" 1.5 EcoBoost with a capacity of 120 or 150 hp Boxes of the company - 6-speed "mechanics" or 8-speed hydromechanical "automatic", drive - front or complete, with electron-controlled power take-off coupling on the rear axle.
For the US market, where Kuga is sold under the name Escape, diesel engines Not stated, but there will be a unique gasoline top version with a motor 2.0 EcoBoost with a capacity of 253 hp, and the 1.5 ECOBOOST engine produces the maximum 182 hp
The second generation KUGA last year found 153,259 buyers in Europe, 1.2% more than in 2017, but the result of VW Tiguan is almost one hundred thousand more. American Escape in 2018 was separated by a circulation of 272 228 copies (-11.7%), while the leader of the SUV segment - Toyota RAV4 - found 427,168 buyers (+ 4.8%).
In Russia, 2018 will become the last full year of sales of Kuga (13,909 pcs are realized), as well as others passenger cars Ford brands. Recall that the "blue oval" and close (as an option - to sell) its plants, only an enterprise will remain in Elabuga, which produces transits, but control over it will turn to the Russian company Sollers.
Today, the Ford's Russian press office announced the unprecedented "liquidation" discounts on passenger models: in particular, the focus and Cuhouse can be taken with profit of 175 thousand rubles, and the discount on Explorer is as much as 400 thousand rubles. "Oh, where you used to be with such discounts," the consumers are moan. Significantly reduce prices for Focus offered and, where this model is still collected, but the Ford's leadership such a national salvation plan was not interested, since the departure from Russia is just a part announced earlier.
Machine-building company in America Ford Motor Company is engaged in the assembly and release of the Ford brand machines. In 1903, he founded Henry Ford to invest from five companions, which in total amounted to 28 thousand dollars. This is the fourth recordsman-producer in the volume of production in the world of cars during the existence of the corporation.
Now the car giant shifted to the third position in the volume of production in America (1 step for General Motors, 2nd for Toyota) and ranks second in Europe, yielding only the Volkswagen trademark.
Headquarters is located in the US Dirborn, Michigan. This is the main producer of the Ford car manufacturer.
New development strategy
The 2000th year became the turning point. A. Mallali becomes the new manager, whose idea consisted in the mass launch of the assembly of global cars common to all markets. He conducted restructuring under the slogan "One Ford", where the first vehicle released (2006) became Ford Focus III. The strategy returned the profit concern.
The company has three departments - Ford Asia Pacific, Ford North America, Ford of Europe. Before the restructuring Mallali every department produced his the lineup Auto.
Plants of autocontrace
Plants where brand cars are collected in various countries of the world. For 2010, they were numbered about 30:
- USA - 8 factories in the states of Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Kentucky.
- Brazil - specializes in trucks Ford Cargo (Ford Cargo). The main supplier of cars to the markets of Argentina and Venezuela. In 2018, the proportion of production decreased by 9%. Plant under threat of closing.
- Belarus is the village of Okchak "Ford Union", about 25 thousand cars per year. This number does not cover current needs. The country imports a car from Russia.
- Germany - Saarlis plant. The company's performance covers 80% for more than 70 countries of the world, including Australia and New Zealand.
- Canada - one Machine Building Factory
In addition, production has been established in Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, India, Great Britain, South Africa, China, Spain, Belgium, Russia and other countries.
Ford in Russia
Cooperation with Russia began in 1907.
Until March 2019, Ford in Russia had plants in the Leningrad Region, Naberezhnye Chelny and Elabuga.
So far, sedans from the European Branch of Werke prevail for the Russian market. These are models Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo, C-Max, S-Max, Kuga.
At the same time, since 2011, "Fiesta" is also sent to the US expanses. "Focus" no longer comes to other European markets, and its analogue is produced in the USA. "Mondeo" (in the US Fusion) differs from the American choice of engines. C-MAX has its own duplicates in North America, and S-MAX is not presented in the United States at all. These two models are designed with the calculation only on the European market.
"Cuga" (in America Escape) and Ford Explorer differ from the fellow european segment Design, content and details. This is the only model range of the American market in Russia.
For 2017-18, the best-selling model - Ford Focus.
Enterprises for the manufacture of Ford in Russia
Since March 2019, Ford has closed all the plants, turning the production of all models except Ford Transit..
Before the closure, the production looked like this:
In Vsevolozhsk, the final assembly of the car was made. This is one of the first enterprises to produce foreign cars. Specializes in "Focus" and "Mondeo" models. This is the only plant where all the types of bodies collect.
In 2011, the world found out about the Ford merger and Russian autlecers' autocorporation under the Ford Sollers denominator. The project cannot be called successful, because in August 2018, the company recalled 3968 cars of the Focus series, Mondeo, Kuga, C-Max sold from 2011 to 2016. The reason was the deterioration of driving characteristics and cases of disconnecting of the adhesion parts, cracks on the clutch disk, transmissions, a general reduction in the velocity of the vehicle, cases of fire.
The main plant "Sollers" in Elabuga opened in 2012. He released Ford Kuga, Explorer and Commercial Cars Ford Transit. The target audience Ford Transit - Russian corporate and state consumers. Minimum cost for cars of this class - 1,590,000 rubles.
In St. Petersburg presented official dealers Ford, from which you can pass something to order service maintenance And buy cars at the lowest price. Also presents a directory with a wide range of authentic parts to machines.
What is waiting for Ford in Russia and Europe in the future?
Analysts predict a reduction in staff and manufactured by Ford on the Russian market. The main prerequisite can be considered that the concern was forced to withdraw about 1 million cars worldwide. This forced measure is associated with defective Japanese airbags TM TCATA, which resulted in death already 20 people.
There are several reasons for this:
- In Europe and the world, the demand for the model series "Minivan" has significantly decreased.
- In a number of other countries, environmental requirements are tightened, which also entails the consequences in the form of unprofitability of a number of Ford models.
- On the expanses, the car market appear new competitors who can compete with the autoconecer. As a result, Ford is forced to take action and review their policy issuing and distribution of auto products.
Immediately, it will affect the auto plant in Vsevolozhsk. The company's assets are tirelessly fall. Over the past 10 years, the share of production has significantly decreased. Considering that the share of cars for 2018 for russian market It is 2.9% (and this is approximately 360,000 cars per year, which went from Elabuga and Vsevolozhsk conveyors). Even during periods of productivity, the company could not reach the profitable level. For autumn 2018, the company lost about $ 282 million.
The restructuring project will also affect the plant in Naberezhnye Chelny. It is supposed to stop the production of models Ford Focus., Mondeo, Fiesta, Eco Spot. To purchase Russians, these models will be able only through imports by official distributors. Finally the fate of the plant will be solved in the spring of 2019.
Similar changes are coming throughout the European network of autoconecer. Consequently, Russia is one of the few European countries, which at the moment does not need to import the TM Ford car. At the same time, herself is a significant exporter to EU expanses.
Since its founding, the company has passed a long way of formation and mergers. During the wars, army trucks, jeeps, other military mechanisms and wheeled technique on the conveyors. The main product remains the production of auto to the consumer market.
Dynamic crossover with bright design and excellent running ford characteristics Kuga conquered the heart of not one motorist. But, before buying this handsome, the drivers want to know?
The model that the American brand created for the European and CIS market to compete with Nissan Qashqai.At first released in Germany at Ford Motors factory in Saarlouis. But, the increasing demand of Russian consumers made the manufacturer think about the beginning of the assembly of the car in the Russian Federation. The famous autobrade chose the Sollers plant in Elabuga (Republic of Tatarstan), where they make some of his models.
Where and how to collect Ford Kug in Russia
Since 2012, the assembly of the first Ford Kuga in Elabuga started. This is not the first model of the American brand, which moves from the local plant conveyor. The successful production of other Fords is established here: Tourneo, Explorer, S-Max, Galaxy, Transit, EcoSport 2015.
A year later, in 2013, the enterprise began the release of the second generation of the popular technology model full cycle: Body welding, color, final assembly. It is these cars that run the domestic roads and neighboring countries. And do not infer at the quality of their analogues created on the European conveyor.
It is known that the cost of the car depends on who collects it. Russian production Ford Cuga made her business: the price of the crossover turned out to be quite affordable.
The model has pleased the consumer to all: a spectacular design, an economical engine, high-quality furniture salon. Still would! After all, the Tatar conveyor, where the Ford Cuga collect for Russia, fully complies with the standards of the car. Each item passes several stages of control - to guarantee the impeccable quality of the beloved many crossover.
Russian version of Ford Kuga. What she is
The current model Ford Cuga is equipped gasoline engines EcoBoost series 1.6 liters. They are issued from 150 to 185 hp, and aggregate with a six-speed automatic or mechanical transmission. But, in 2014, the line of the engine was replenished with another - 2.5-liter petrol aggregate. Presented and the option with Diesel: 140-Strong DuratorQ Motor works in a pair with a six-speed "robot" PowerShift.
The manufacturer calls the crossover the most "smart" in its history and offers motorists to assess the mass of electronic assistants and innovative technologies.
But, in practice, Ford Kuga local assembly flashes are still located: the turbine requires repair after a couple of hundred kilometers, and the "Shalit" suspension under the passage of the "lying police".
Second generation Ford. Kuga for the American market is produced in Louisville (USA).
