Luxury Ford Ecosport Interior

Posted by kurangkam on December 31st, 2017

Luxury Ford Ecosport Interior - Sit back and relax: that's what you will not be doing too much of in Ecosport's company. Nowhere else will the car's starting point as a budget option in an unsophisticated market be more apparent to the layman than inside it.

Despite sharing much of the Fiesta's dashboard layout, the latest model methodically strips the interior of any soft-touch niceties. The seats are hard. The plastic in front of you and all around is bone hard and mottled like a primary school chair.

Most of everything else is flimsy, wilting to even the most cautious exploratory waggle. Under way, the noise - engine, road and wind - frogmarches through the gaps. The 2018 model gets the latest gen Fiesta's interior, which, while not class leading a stretch of the imagination, is a vast improvement and dominanted by the large touchscreen display.

If all that smacks a little too much of snobbishness, it's worth remembering that Ford will charge you a minimum of £ 15k for a Ford Ecosport - the same money as a mid-spec Volkswagen Polo. From a trim standpoint, the pair defy meaningful comparison except the standard resides countless fathoms below it.

Which, when you draw back to consider the tent poles beneath the canvas, turns out to be rather a shame. Considering that the car rests on one of the dinkiest superminis around, it is remarkably well packaged. The raised roofline means that the back seats are a viable prospect for adults, even those in the 6ft region.

Also, although the hinged rear door makes accessing the boot in a crowded car park a dangerous nonsense, Ford has managed to eke out 375 liters of load space by sticking the spare wheel to it. That's much more, it should be said, than you'd get in a five-door Polo. It'll provide almost triple that with the seats folded flat, too. Predictably, you'll need the shoulders of a lumberjack to exercise that arthritic manoeuvre. Again, pity.