Ford recently unveiled its new 2010 Ford Escape and the 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid. Ford has added five new safety features in its 2010 Ford Escape models. The new safety features are MyKey, Rear View Camera System, Integrated Spotter Mirrors and Active Park Assist.

Ford will be trying to add these safety features on all its future models which are due for a redesign or also on vehicles which are going to have even minor updates.

Ford Escape is going to be the 1st SUV to be fitted with automated parking system. Lexus and Toyota do have similar features but this system will have more advantages for Ford Escape models due to the fact that SUV have less visibility.

Will it affect the pricing of the 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid models is not known. 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid is priced at $30,370 which includes $725 destination charges

Other then the safety features, 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid will not have much change. 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid will use 153hp 2.5L Atkinson Cycle I-4 and is going come in four-wheel-drive.

Source: http://www.newcarpark.com

2008 Ford Focus 5d

Ford Focus

In 2009 there will be a version “RS” and will have the most powerful engine of the range, above the 225-hp ST. There was no previous Ford Focus RS version; there was a version of the first Ford Focus RS 200, launched in 1999.

Ford Focus

Ford called the three-door version of ‘Coupe’, the five ‘limousine’, the four ‘Sedan’, the familiar “Sportbreak” and “Coupe-Cabriolet” at the cabriolet.

Ford Focus

The version with 136 hp diesel engine and can carry a gearbox double clutch (called “Powershift”, which is similar to “DSG” which uses Volkswagen). This version of the Ford Focus has a price exceeding € 1500 option with respect to the six-speed manual shift.

Ford Focus

The Ford Focus 2.0 TDCi Powershift has two drawbacks. First, it gives benefits slightly slower than the equivalent version with manual shift and its consumption is somewhat higher (although the difference is not final). Second, is missing that, without intervention by the driver, had more power to give retention in certain circumstances.

Ford Focus

With the changes that Ford has done in this new model, the Ford Focus will be maintained as a very pleasant car to drive for their agility; good feel of driving and the possibilities of equipment. It is not above the average for the materials or coating for its setting (although there is an improvement in this aspect with regard to the model was launched in late 2004).

2008 Ford Focus 3d

Ford Focus

Where there is an improvement over the previous model is by the amount of noise coming from inside the engines. This is particularly note in version 2.0 TDCi and to a lesser extent in the 1.6 TDCi 109 hp.

Ford Focus

Of the petrol engines, the most interesting may be the 1.6 Ti-VCT 114 hp, which has a good performance. Of the Diesel, the 2.0 TDCi 136 bhp is more than 1.6 TDCI 109 hp if we take into account both the supply and consumption, and is the only one who can bring change gears’ Powershift ‘. Curiously, the 1.6 liter diesel not has given us such a good impression on the Ford Focus and other cars you can have (in particular in the Mazda3).

Ford Focus

In general, all versions of the Ford Focus notable for its breadth, except for the headroom to the roof in places Backdoors that there is little adult height of more than 1.80 meters.

Ford Focus

The Ford Focus familiar with the bodywork (”Sportbreak”) has more headroom to the roof in the rear seats, plus a trunk very practical and comfortable to carry, but with one flaw: there are no bindings planned to place a network behind the front seats and rings for securing the load on the floor are inaccessible.

The Ford Focus is available from € 12,635. With regard to the bodywork of three doors, five more it costs 325 € and four 975; the family version has the same price as that of four. Drawing on the Coupe version 1.6 TDCi 109 bhp, the Ford Focus has a price similar to that of their more direct alternatives, with some exceptions (a Fiat Bravo is somewhat less expensive).

Ford is spicing up the new Fiesta’s European range with the introduction of a new Sport trim level that will be available on the three-door models equipped with the 96HP 1.4-liter and 120HP 1.6-liter gasoline engines as well as with the 90HP 1.6-liter TDCi turbo diesel. Unlike most proposals of the sort where changes are limited to cosmetics and enhanced equipment levels, the Sport model actually benefits from a series of chassis upgrades that promise to further improve handling.

These include a nine millimeter lowered sports suspension with stiffer springs and new shocks, a modified steering wheel system and the addition of an electronic stability programme (ESP) that can be switched off completely.

Visually, the three-door Fiesta Sport is distinguished by a different lower grille treatment, dark headlamps, front apron, chunky side skirts, a rear apron with an integrated diffuser and new 16-inch alloys wrapped in beefier sport tires.

Inside, buyers can opt between two different trim colors (anthracite or blue) with special features including the front sport seats, leather sport steering wheel and gearshift knob and the enhanced equipment that includes a height-adjustable driver’s seat, an on-board computer, electric windows and locks, and air conditioning.