Spy Photos: Is Ford Working on a Fiesta Crossover?

Is that a Ghia badge on the rear door window frame?

Does Ford still sell the Fusion (Fiesta soft roader) in Europe?

I think the Juke AWD models are outselling the FWD models. The Fiesta is almost the exact size of the Juke, so it is not far fetched to think there might be an AWD Fiesta coming. Of course, with hp in the 120s, the Fiesta is not going to be a real competitor to the 188 hp Juke.

The Fiesta AWD would need to be a lot cheaper than the Juke. I wonder if Ford can do that.

Wow, Ford wastes no time trying to catch up to Chevy...

"Of course, with hp in the 120s, the Fiesta is not going to be a real competitor to the 188 hp Juke."

Ok, maybe this car comes with a 1.6 EcoBoost 180-200+ hp! Why not? An AWD EcoBoost version would work very well in the Fiesta. I hope that it will be shipped with all wheel drive - it is good for all people around the world. I don't want this car with FWD.

Ford Needs to stop wastingtime and intro the Fiesta hatch with an ecoboost motor.

Americans want this car!

I see a new car eligible to run in Rally America...

Chevy is doing this with the Aveo aren't they?

Are you kidding me? That looks pathetic!

rally time!

These types of photos are always interesting. Note that one has it's beam axle intact, so it doesn't have AWD. It could still be a prototype for a FWD Crossover but it's not AWD yet.
Also, we've seen the prototype for the turbocharged Fiesta ST and it's got a very visible (and large) intercooler in it's lower grill. This one doe snot have that. It may be the milder EcoBoost that's coming for Europe where the intercooler is not so apparent.

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Why it is thought that Americans still don't like small cars is beyond me. Americans do like small cars however the car industry refuses to bring any variety of them stateside under so they'll never have a chance to sell well here.

Here in Brazil we have a locar Ford car called the Ecosport (see on Ford Brazil web site). It's is based on last generation Ford Fiesta, but is not the same car as the Fusion we see in Europe. The brazilian Fiesta is a more simplified (and cheaper) car than the one that has been replaced at the old continent. So, the Ecosport is a microscopic SUV made from the Brazilian SUV.

For the last 6 months here, we've been reading about a new generation Ford Ecosport, made on the base of this new Fiesta. And, this time, it will be a global car.

Never liked the Ecosport. Small, handles poorly, badly made (as all national Fords are, even our MKII Focus) and quite bad looking.

But i have hopes to this new one.

"Why it is thought that Americans still don't like small cars is beyond me. Americans do like small cars however the car industry refuses to bring any variety of them stateside under so they'll never have a chance to sell well here. "

A) The sales numbers speak for themselves - we've had plenty of chances. There have been numerous Euro imports over the years that have failed in the U.S. market

B) Car companies do lots of market research; if the demand were there we'd already have more offerings

C) The margins are too low. Americans will drive them but not pay a lot of money for them, unlike Europeans. We still have a small car = cheap car mentality. If the car companies cannot make money on them, they won't spend the R&D money to meet the myriad U.S. regs to sell the cars here

Bottom line: The car companies don't refuse to bring them; rather Americans refuse to buy them.

That and the US refuses to use international crash test procedures. They wont accept anything from Euro Ncap for crash tests. They insist on redoing all the tests with slightly different paramaters. If you want to see more car variety in the US, the US needs to work WITH europe on a standardized crash test system. The problem is a bunch of people at NHTSA that don't want to lose their job.

As for small SUV in the US, ford was going to give us a version of the Ecosport like they have in south america, a small SUV based on the last gen fiesta. It it was going to be the new bronco int he US. This was when we were also going to get the last gen fiesta as well and not the current model. Those plans got scrapped when the new CEO came in and insisted the US have the current generation fiesta, just like europe.

If ford saw a market for a small SUV based on the fiesta a few years ago, why would they not still see a market now with gas prices still high and more people looking at smaller cars? I think ford is just going to wait to launch a global Bronco/fusion/ecosport that will be one global car for all markets before the US gets this little SUV now.

I speculated that this might be the B-max, but the powers that be thought I was joking. And here is what it most likely is...

http://www.insideline.com/ford/ford-b-max-joins-the-family-2011-geneva-auto-show.html

Like all mules, the body is different, but that means nothing. More importantly, the longer travel and wider track (see how the tires pooch out from the body?) point to this as a B-max chassis running around under the body of a Fiesta, Ford's B-segment car.

I read a comment stating that Ford waist no time to catch up with chevy. Looks like Chevy is trying so hard to catch up with Ford but too bad it wont. The only thing that helps Chevy is the Carmaro and the malibu. Ford is still climbing to the top.