+ Spacious, impressive ride quality and NVH levels
- Look and feel of some interior trim items aren’t Ford family-familiar
The news in early 2021 of the termination of talks between Ford and Mahindra for the latter to develop Blue Oval-badged products for so-called emerging markets stifled many of the plans Ford South Africa had for a continued local presence within several key passenger car segments. With products including EcoSport, Fiesta and, indeed, Fiesta Figo having reached the end of their respective production cycles, any plans for replacement offerings were temporarily scuppered.
As tested in our February issue, the Puma crossover represents a first step back into the passenger car