Official: 2008 Ford Kuga Crossover To Premiere In Frankfurt Show

German Press Release (Translated via Google so don’t expect any wonders…)

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The model family of Ford OF Europe is extended at the beginning of of 2008 with Ford the Kuga by a new member. A Preview model of the series vehicle is already shown the press and the public on the Frankfurt motor show, which opens its gates on 13 September.

“With the introduction Ford of the Kuga we hold our automobile salon Paris on that 2006 given promise to develop in less than two years a new, stylistic fastidious new model basis much of the considered Ford Iosis X Concept Cars”, explain John Fleming, president and CEO von Ford OF Europe. Of Ford European Design team has its trailblazing “Kinetic Design” - stylistic idiom to a compact and unmistakable 4x4-Crossover-Modell transfer, which will supplement the model offer of Ford in the coming year.

“We recognized that image-conscious customers in this segment expect a very individual vehicle, which convinces by perfect road qualities likewise as by impressing Offroad abilities” describe Ford OF Europe Executive Design Director Martin Smith the concept. “The Kuga is in this segment a Solitär, because the optically responding “Kinetic Design” finds its correspondence in a handling on the road, like it our customers of models like Ford the focus, which S-MAX and the new Mondeo already know and expect”, adds Smith.

Ford Design team publishes likewise the first official styling design of the new model. “The Kuga is a vehicle with strong signal effect, and which we wanted to communicate to Smith also in our first official picture”, commentate. “We are the conviction that the time for an athletic and charismatisches vehicle is ripe. The Kuga goes in the same way new ways like price-crowned Ford S-MAX, to that the MPV segment new terrain opened.”