Please tell me this is an April fools joke? New Ford Puma

I ended up having two puma's about 10 years apart. Both were 1.7's, one was black, and the other silver. The first I got a few months after they were released. I went from a Mondeo to a Puma, what a shock! from a barge to a gokart! The second I picked up as my wife's first car. Never had any issues with either of them and there is part of me that wishes I'd kept hold of at least one.

as for the new "puma" .. WTF! did someone take a puma to McDonalds and feed it unlimited happy meals?
 
jpaul said:
have you driven one, for any time ?

Had one as a hire car on a works trip over a week, 500miles, petrol, handling with 4 people pretty reasonable, didn't feel top heavy, unwieldy,
not uncomfortable or noisy... I wasn't looking / don't remember the outside too much.
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I've had two as Nissan Lease cars (very cheap lease £150ish a month which included insurance for me and the mrs)... have done about 12k miles in them.

They excel at nothing, space inside is pathetic, boot isn't large and has a restrictive opening, interior looks dated, useless engines (don't get me started on the Nismo) handling sub par, not particularly economical, things like blind spot monitor give false positives in the rain, not high on reliability scale and not cheap if you pay rrp.

I liked the heated seats I guess...

Puma was one of the cars to have when I was just starting out driving, shame to use the name on one more useless mini SUV.
 
paradigm said:
It will indeed, however they didn't need to soil the Puma name by turning what was a sporty coupé into a wet blanket. They could have just as easily called it the Ford Ocelot, it's not as if they are going to gain market share from someone reliving their teenage years by wanting back into a Puma.

What's next, the Ford Capri pickup truck?
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So basically a Ford Lightning based on the Ranger platform with a smaller engine? I’m sure plenty of people would be pretty happy with that tbh!
 
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ZG002 said:
I've had two as Nissan Lease cars (very cheap lease £150ish a month which included insurance for me and the mrs)... have done about 12k miles in them.

They excel at nothing, space inside is pathetic, boot isn't large and has a restrictive opening, interior looks dated, useless engines (don't get me started on the Nismo) handling sub par, not particularly economical, things like blind spot monitor give false positives in the rain, not high on reliability scale and not cheap if you pay rrp.

I liked the heated seats I guess...

Puma was one of the cars to have when I was just starting out driving, shame to use the name on one more useless mini SUV.
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Exactly. They are just worse in every way to a regular hatchback. Like all of these SUV "crossovers".
 
People's tastes change. Long gone are the years of selling a car on looks and performance. Petrol-heads are a dying a breed and general car culture is just going to end up in autonomous buses customized with flowers and fancy L.E.D's.
 
Many years ago, back when I was in school, my mum was buying a new car and it was between the Puma and the old Vauxhall Tigra. She chose the Tigra because she deemed it the better car. It didn't faze me at the time, but thinking back I now know how much of a bad decision that was :(
 
Diddums said:
I don't know what car manufacturers are doing, you seen the Mitsubishi Eclipse?

From this:

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To this:

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I saw an article the other day from a high up at Mitsubishi saying that in the next couple of years they will only be selling SUV's and are phasing out any model that isn't an SUV. How on earth is there enough differentiation between the models when all you sell are a small SUV, a slightly bigger SUV which looks identical, then a slightly bigger SUV which looks identical. Ford are doing the same, in the US they will only sell SUV's apart from the Mustang. However, you don't need to be a genius to see what this brand repositioning has done to the used values of things like old Evo's!

The future of common car sales is filled with utter dreariness like Nissan Qashqai's, Ford Kugas and Mitsubishi Eclipses.
 
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Uncle_Gravy said:
How odd, going from a zippy coupe version of the fiesta to a fiesta on stilts, that would have probably been an awesome little car.
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Thinking about it in this way, the new car should have been called the Fusion, as they did last time with a jacked up Fiesta.
 
Gaygle said:
I saw an article the other day from a high up at Mitsubishi saying that in the next couple of years they will only be selling SUV's and are phasing out any model that isn't an SUV. How on earth is there enough differentiation between the models when all you sell are a small SUV, a slightly bigger SUV which looks identical, then a slightly bigger SUV which looks identical. Ford are doing the same, in the US they will only sell SUV's apart from the Mustang. However, you don't need to be a genius to see what this brand repositioning has done to the used values of things like old Evo's!

The future of common car sales is filled with utter dreariness like Nissan Qashqai's, Ford Kugas and Mitsubishi Eclipses.
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Eventually it will change and people will start wanting interesting things again. SUVs are basically the modern Model-T Ford, all the same. Sooner or later they will realise they have become sheep.
 
Marvt74 said:
Ah, didn't know about the Active range.
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BMW obviously on the active bandwaggon too. .. selling dreams to the less active clientelle.

I still think the cross-over with an intermediate cd/mpg-economy has its place.

edit: afterthought .. although word active for ford is the rear dampers being modulated as a result of shocks at the front (is it good/reliable?), unlike BMW, who have less excuses.
 
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