One driver is reported to have died as a result of a fire in his Kuga in December 2015. Īnother owner was assured by a dealership that his vehicle would be safe as long as the coolant level was correct, but his Kuga burned a few days later. Even after one owner took her vehicle to a dealership, whose mechanics checked it and assured the owner that the vehicle was safe, the car still caught fire the next day. In December 2016, Ford South Africa requested that all local Kuga owners take their vehicles in for a safety inspection. In South Africa, onwards from 2015, numerous Ford Kugas of the 1.6 L EcoBoost variant caught fire. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings.
This section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. The Kuga is marketed as the Ford Escape in North America, Australia, Middle East, and several countries in the Americas. Ford claims the Kuga and Escape have 80% parts commonality. Final assembly for European models is conducted at the Ford Valencia Plant in Spain. The patents from January 2011 list the designers as Patrick Verhee, Stefan Lamm, Kemal Curic, and Andrea Di Buduo from Ford in Germany. For the production model, designers and engineers in Cologne were responsible for the body design and C1 platform, the upper body and interior come from Detroit, and powertrains are manufactured by Ford Dagenham. The Kuga follows on from the Vertrek concept, developed over nine months at Ford's Cologne design studio.
The rebadged name Ford Escape is used in North America, replacing the model of the same name there. The second-generation Kuga was primarily developed by Ford of Europe, developed under the "One Ford" policy, which stipulates that Ford designs only one model in each segment to be sold globally. The Kuga Hybrid would be Ford's first hybrid to be sold in Europe, though it has sold over 100,000 Escape Hybrids and Mercury Mariner Hybrids in the United States since 2004. Ford announced in May 2010 that it would build unspecified hybrids at a plant in Valencia, Spain, and likely offer a hybrid option of both vehicles. The redesigned Kuga formed the basis for the 2013 Ford Escape sold in the United States. Ī facelift was released at the end of 2010, after being revealed in July 2010. The Ford Kuga has also been available in Argentina since 2010 in Japan, South Africa, and New Zealand since 2011 and in Australia since March 2012. On 23 June 2010, Ford announced it would end production of the second-generation Escape in 2011 in anticipation of the Kuga's North American launch as the next-generation Escape. On 22 October 2009, news leaked that Ford would build the Kuga at its Louisville plant, possibly as the 2012 Ford Escape. On 24 July 2008, WDIV-TV announced that Ford was reconsidering bringing the Kuga to North America after all. This idea was later scrapped, after they determined the car could not be sold both competitively priced and at a profit in the United States, due to the current dollar-to-euro exchange rate. 2.0 L Duratorq, 163 PS (120 kW 161 hp) AWD and powershift modelsĪ report from 20 July 2007 indicated Ford executives were considering the prospects of sales in North America.The first-generation Kuga was presented in September 2007, having its world premiere at the Frankfurt Motor Show. It is based on the C1 platform, which also forms the underpinnings of the Ford Focus and Ford C-Max. The combined fuel consumption is 44.1 mpg ‑imp (6.41 L/100 km 36.7 mpg ‑US) and the CO 2 emissions are 169 g/km. In the United Kingdom, emphasising the car's premium market aspirations, only high end Zetec and Titanium specifications are offered. The Kuga went on sale in the first half of 2008, and was built at Ford's plant in Saarlouis, Germany. Its sales are reportedly lower in the region due to the unfortunate naming choice. Kuga means plague in Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian. The final Mercury Cougar from 1998 to 2002 was sold outside of the United States as the Ford Cougar. The vehicle name, Kuga, may refer to another Ford automobile, the Mercury Cougar.
The Kuga was originally European-designed and sold in Europe and a few other markets, but beginning in 2012 for the 2013 model year it was marketed in North America as the Ford Escape. Both front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive are offered. The Ford Kuga is a compact crossover SUV ( C-segment) manufactured by Ford since 2008 mainly for the European market, and now in its third generation. Front-engine, front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive
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