The Puma ST is great, but it's not the first fast Ford SUV...
which, it should be said, is a cracking little car. Honestly, anyone who hadn’t immediately driven a Fiesta ST before getting into a Puma would be seriously impressed by the speed and the sense of mischief. Even those well versed in the Fiesta’s appeal will find a lot to like about the SUV equivalent, because it really is very similar.
In fact, the performance SUV is a genre that Ford has dabbled in before, albeit far more modestly than any likely future attempt will. Back when the first Kuga was the hot new thing and people were buying the diesel in their droves, the business case was made for the 2.5-litre turbo five from the Focus ST to go in. Yes, seriously. With a manual gearbox, too. Seemingly undeterred by how bonkers the engine transplant seemed in an S-Max, the Kuga got a 2.5T variant as well.
That could all be sorted nowadays, of course, and it’s hard not to imagine a Kuga 2.5T as one of the best sleepers around because of how tuneable that five-cylinder is. Hopefully there’s no glaring reason why not that we’re missing. Even the mildest of ECU tunes, designed to stay well within the tolerances of standard components, could liberate more than 280hp and almost 300lb ft in a car that looks like every other SUV, let alone just every other Kuga. Which would be pretty cool.
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