MALLORCA – After Focus is his turn, the Ford C-Max that is renewed in the wake of the stylistic Kinetic 2, adds new content security technology and finally engines even more efficient, able to offer with up to 20% lower fuel consumption, higher performance and a pleasure even improved, for both driver and passengers alike.
Success story. It was 2003 and there was a boom the compact MPV. The response was the Ford C-Max, the first car with the new platform, even then shared with the Focus, and the first cars with diesel engines result of an agreement with Peugeot, still under way between the two houses. The reply came in 2009 with a novelty: the C-Max is sdoppiava in 5-seater and 7-seater with both rear doors sliding thus following a trend of the market and, at the same time, giving to the “short” version connotations so dynamic by putting it in competition with the normal 5-door and wagon. A formula very apt because by then the C-Max has taken the head of its segment bothering with its positioning transverse and its compact size, a lot of cars. It was also the beginning of the family that Max would be completed two years later by the S-Max and then the B-Max, Galaxy alongside the founder. Since then in Europe we were sold 1.2 million C-Max, 185 thousand in Italy, and the model has become a global finding a second home in North America, with versions hybrid and plug-in hybrid.
Shots chisel and technology. The C-Max works and therefore his style could not be overturned, but only refined and sweetened by aligning it to the new canons of Kinetic 2 seen on Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo. So grille wider crossed horizontally by long chrome trim, headlights thinner and more rounded edges. The biggest changes come in and, as on the Focus, the reason is the arrival of two new Sync system that gets rid of the myriad of keys, buttons, knobs and small display with a screen with 8-inch and everything entrusted touch or voice. You say “I’m hot” and the climate at the most, say “I’m hungry” is the Michelin Guide offers the best restaurants allowing finally to book them by phone before you lead with the navigator. The system also called and reads sms and offers full connectivity without indulging in cloud applications and advanced without allowing external devices to be “mirrored”. In short: long live the independence and even privacy.
Even more safety and comfort. The C-Max had before nothing to envy in terms of safety, but now He has even more. Beginning with MyKey, which allows the car to give your child with peace of mind by limiting the maximum speed of the car, the volume of the audio system Sony and inhibiting the start of the car without seat belts were fastened and the disarming of preparedness and assistance. Sensors, radar and camera adjust the set speed depending on traffic, read signals, monitor on your state of rest, the blind spot, if you are involuntarily overcoming the dividing lines and finally to ensure alert in dangerous situations by intervening on the brakes if you do not react and even stopping the vehicle to below 50 km / h instead of 30 km / h before. The C-Max is moving in safety in the city thanks to the sensors and rear camera, but also with Cross Traffic Alert that monitors the sides when reversing out from the parking lots, which the C-Max can do in automatic over to enter it in both the longitudinal and parallel spaces. For visibility, useful in cold weather the defrosting system for the windshield and less valuable are the Bi-Xenon headlights with LED daytime running lights, which adjust power and beam steering to 9 different driving situations.
Two different ideas of space. Even better than before the feeling of quality and solidity given by the materials used inside, with a high driving position, but also snug and sporty. Unchanged also the interior space and ways to exploit it to the maximum modulating. The 5-seater sofa has its back not generous in size but it offers plenty of room for your legs, as many as 3 Isofix attachments and sliding so as to modulate the luggage space from 432 liters up to 1,723, and then bringing it down altogether. The C-Max7 offers a good system of release of the second row seats to access the two third, but these are really only good for children and it is better to advance the three chairs otherwise feet are there. Here we start with 65 risicatissimi liters, but it gets even 1,865 liters. So to 5 with maximum space, for 7 for short (indeed very short) displacements and with the possibility of having, as needed, a volume really huge. Further comfort is the new powered tailgate which opens with a movement of the foot that is in addition to all the small and large rooms that are located inside the passenger compartment of the two C-Max making the living conditions more pleasant.
The smaller yet more powerful and parks. The engines are all approved Euro 6, with stop & amp; start and regenerative release. For petrol EcoBoost turbo direct injection is part of the award-winning one thousand 3-cylinder 100 hp or 125 hp, then there is the 1.5 with 150 hp which provides the same power of 1.6 liters, but is more efficient than 6 % through reduced internal friction and the adoption of EGR refrigerated. For diesel, the 2-liter has two variants: 150 hp, the most powerful of the previous 4% but more than 20% and even park offering Powerhift gearbox, standard on the 170 hp version. The big news is that the dual-clutch gearbox you will have also at 1.5 diesel. Here too, the reduction in capacity has led to power cuts, even the new unit has 120 hp or 95 hp, 5.6 hp more and therefore fuel consumption and CO2 emissions see a cut of 12%, but if you want the best Also on the C-Max you can have the ECOnetic version of 105 hp declaring 3.8 liters / 100 km equal to 99 g / km of CO2. Another advantage is that, compared to the past, all three variants have 270 Nm of torque, even if provided in a different way. During probate also the GPL version 1.6 of 120 hp.
The comfort agile and fun. The Ford C-Max car is intuitive, which immediately gives confidence since from the first moments, even more with the new interiors characterized by the new simplified ergonomics. It sits high, but not too much and you feel enveloped by car, but far from downtrodden so that it feels comfortably merged with the medium, sportingly spacious. Marching feel the changes to the suspension, steering and soundproofing because the C-Max is even more comfortable, silent and still more homogeneous curve, where pulls behavior really agile and fun helped by efficient brakes and a manual gearbox fast and accurate . The 1.5 liter petrol engine with 150 hp is smooth, the 1.5 diesel 120 hp engine is undoubtedly the right and behaves as if he had gained 100 cc because it’s ready, quieter and has improved both in providing both nell’allungo. The opportunity to have him with the Powershift gearbox and even with the levers behind the wheel (further news) makes it even more attractive in terms of comfort and enjoyment. The C-Max in short everything has to deal with the city, long journeys and mixed sections.
Range simple and well-targeted. The range starts at 20,000 Euros for the C-Max 5 places, then a draw with the Focus Wagon offering itself as an alternative to a more traditional way of understanding the space for a compact car. For the C-Max7 takes 1,500 euro more, 1,750 are needed for Powershift, another 150 euro for the levers behind the wheel, 1,000 € more for each more powerful engine. Three versions: Plus, Titanium and Titanium X but including specific packages that will launch. The first will have the Plus Pack (LED daytime running lights, fog lights, circles design 16 “console and premium), the other two the Titanium Tech Pack (hands-free tailgate, keyless, electric mirrors, tinted glass) completed on the Titanium and Sync2 Titanium X on the Premium Touch Navigation System. For customers fleets is the construction business that supplied to the Plus adds Sync2, 8-inch screen, cruise control and limiter, electric rear windows, rear sensors, electric folding mirrors, 16-inch wheels and roof rails for C-Max7. The arrival is expected in dealerships in June.
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