Ford starts selling hybrid escape in the United States four years after its introduction Toyota Prius here, with production continuing until 2012. To replace it, A Focus-derived MPV that has proven its worth in Europe was equipped with a gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain and introduced as a 2013 model for North America. This is the C-Max Hybrid, and I found one of the first cars in a self-service parking lot in Wyoming.
The C-Max was the first Ford model in the US market to be offered exclusively as a hybrid, and sales continued until 2018 (then It was canceled because it was not truck-like enough.).
The idea is that it will compete in sales with Toyota Priusat similar prices and fuel economy parameters.
Like the Prius, the C-Max has a Atkinson cycle A four-cylinder petrol engine provides internal combustion power. Total output with the 88kW electric motor is 188bhp, beating the Prius and its 134bhp total. There is a plug-in hybrid version called the C-Max Energi also.
And the official EPA fuel economy for the 2013 C-Max, while not quite up to Prius levels, is also excellent: 47 mpg city, 47 mpg highway, 47 mpg combined.
Unfortunately for Ford, C-Max reviewers and buyers in the US quickly realized that the car’s real-world fuel economy was lower than those numbers. Much lower. Lawsuit, litigation lowerIn fact.
By the summer of 2013, the EPA had back to C-Max mileage ratingsdrops to 45 city/40 highway/43 combined. Ford sent refund checks to all 32,000 buyers and lessees of 2013 C-Max vehicles in the United States.. Do not have This seems to be hurting C-Max sales. too much at first… at first; 2014 C-Max sales plummeted afterward.
The “tall hatchback” MPV body style proved extremely popular with European car buyers in the 2000s and deep into the 2010s, and I’ve recorded quite a few some belong to those other things car while Mine tornado tour belong to English scrapyard Final winter. American car buyers have been less enthusiastic about the vehicle, as evidenced by the lukewarm reception given to the C-Max’s platform-shared sibling, Mazda5 car.
At least the C-Max Hybrid is selling better. Altima hybrid And Jetta hybrid.
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Any claims of superior fuel economy for the Prius V were quickly dismissed.
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C-Max says, “Ha!” C-Max says, “Wheee!” That’s what you get, don’t you see?
