Ford Focus 3 will be «athletic and taut»
In early 2008, the conveyor Vsevolozhsk plant «Ford Motor Company» come first «Ford Focus 3». The car, which will replace the popular «Focus 2», will be sporting different designs, as well as plenty of useful electronics.
In the past five years «Ford Focus» in Russia - one of the most popular vehicles with foreign roots. Note that now become the owner of «Ford Focus 2» only «defended» 2-3 months in the queue. I must say that «Focuses» and in Europe it is now successfully compete with other cars in the popular «Golf-class». While some models are giving way to part design.
Given the criticisms of motorists in the simple decision to design the salon the previous «Focus», designers «Ford» led by Martin Smith radically redesigned style interior by adding sports and Borrowing torpedo from «Ford S-Max». According to the designers, is now the car will be worth moving to make an impression.
Line engines, which will be equipped with an updated «focus», unchanged. There is still this - gasoline engines volumes 1,4, 1,6, 1,8, 2 and 2.5 liters.
New Third Edition - electronic technology Human Machine Interface (in the literal translation - human-machine interface), allowing the driver is not distracted from the road, manage audio, cruise control and mobile phone.
I must say that automakers are not the first year of trying to create a simple and intuitive interface on-board computer. Here is enough to remember, for example, «BMW» with their iDrive system, or «Audi» with MMI. Specialists of «Ford» decided the question simpler, based on the interface of a mobile phone and putting the management system on the steering wheel. This HMI system is easy to access and does not require any special development, as skills «communicate» with the mobile phone is already quite firmly seated in the motor memory for each person.
Much attention in the new model paid the driver and passenger safety. Constructors «Third Focus» provided seven airbags!
It is worth noting that «Europe» «Ford Focus 3» (ie, this option will meet in Vsevolozhsk), is somewhat different from the «American» version of the car, which was premiered in Detroit in January. Lines «American» more fluid, in addition to «overseas» market anticipated release «Focus» in only bodies «Coupe» and «sedan». Hatchback in the States do not like, and universally ignored altogether - and therefore excluded from the model range.
Motor diversity in North American cars are not as expected: the bulk of «tricks» is equipped with dvuhlitrovym Duratec 20 engine, developing 136 horsepower.
While at the company Vsevolozhsk hampered tell the exact date of the beginning of the recording of citizens for the purchase of «Ford Focus 3». Most likely, the first applications will be taken directly before launching a new model in the series. Prices for «three» to date unknown, but judging by the number of innovations, the car will not be cheap.
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Currently Vsevolozhsk plant «Ford Motor Company» produces 72 thousand cars per year. At the end of 2008 will begin production of the popular model of business-class «Ford Mondeo». In 2009, in Vsevolozhsk will be 100 thousand cars «Ford Focus 3», and 25 thousand «Ford Mondeo».
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