FAIL OF THE CENTURY #220: FORD ECOSPORT
BBC TopGear India|November 2023
When it comes to 'not serving up steaming clangers', Ford hasn't dropped the ball too often this century (at least compared with, say, Peugeot, who spent a large chunk of the Noughties seemingly unable to pick up the ball in the first place). Which was why the EcoSport - introduced to Britain in 2014 - came as such an unpleasant surprise.
FAIL OF THE CENTURY #220: FORD ECOSPORT

An inoffensive compact crossover based on the Fiesta, there didn't seem much that could go catastrophically wrong. Much went catastrophically wrong. The driving dynamics... weren't. The suspension... didn't. Mechanical refinement... wasn't.

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