Ford Fusion (2010)

Expert Review by Maxabout

Ford Fusion is a hatchback from Ford that was discontinued in 2010 due to lack of sale and also the other reason may be that Ford waited a little too long to launch Fusion's diesel version. The exterior of Fusion gives a strong and robust feeling with wide windshield, angular front headlights and smart front fog lights. In between them is a wide grille with the logo of Ford, 15-inch alloy wheels with tubeless tyres, power windows, stylish rear tail lights and trendy rear wiper and defogger. The interior of Fusion is also made for full comfort of the passengers except the material used for seats and dashboard which looks quite cheap and dull. Its interior is lashed with spacious dashboard with cup holders, power steering which can also be adjusted according to your preferences, power door locks, AC, central locking and tachometer. The boot space of the car is 337 litres.

Also the front and rear track are 1484mm and 1444mm respectively and the hatchback provides with the seating capacity of five people comfortably. Ford Fusion comes with both petrol and diesel engines. The 1596cc 1.6L DOHC four cylinder four valve/cylinder in-line Multi-Point Petrol Injection engine generates a maximum power of 99.6 bhp at 6500 rpm and a maximum torque of 146 Nm at 3400 rpm and is mated with a five speed manual gearbox. This petrol engine gives a mileage of 9.6 kmpl in the cities and 14.9 kmpl on the highways with the top speed of 160kmph and reaches 0-100kmph mark in 12.9 seconds. On the other hand, the 1399cc 1.4L TDCi SOHC four cylinder two valve/cylinder in-line High Pressure Common Rail Diesel engine generates a maximum power of 68 bhp at 4000 rpm and a maximum torque of 160 Nm at 2000 rpm and is mated with a five speed manual gearbox. This diesel engine produces a mileage of 13.5 kmpl in the cities and 19 kmpl on the highways with the top speed of 158 kmph and reaches 0-100 kmph mark in 7.65 seconds.

As far as safety of the passengers is concerned, it doesn't provide Airbags neither for passengers nor for driver which is a problem factor but it is equipped with ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System), immobilizer and child safety locks, thus providing an average amount of safety. The front suspension of Fusion is equipped with independent McPherson strut with offset coil spring units and lower L-arms with optimised bushes which are mounted on separate cross member with stabiliser bar, while the rear suspension is equipped with semi-independent heavy duty twist beam with low package height coil springs and separate twin-tube dampers. Fusion has 258mm ventilated disk brakes at front and 203mm self-adjusting drum brakes at rear.

It also has a good ground clearance of 198mm which saves you from large speed breakers and potholes of Indian roads and has a minimum turning radius of 4.9m which helps in cutting across city traffic smoothly and easily. It has a fuel tank capacity of 45 litres and wheelbase of 2486mm. Fusion has a width of 1720mm, height of 1529mm and length of 3989mm (diesel) and 4018mm (petrol) as its dimension. Ford Fusion has four variants which are 1.4 TDCi Diesel (2007-2010), Diesel Plus (2009-2010), 1.6 DOHC Petrol (2004-2010) and Petrol Plus (2009-2010). It was available in six beautiful shades which are Panther Black, Moondust Silver, Paprika Red, Mystic Wine, Brush Steel and Diamond White. It has a price range between INR 6-7lakhs. Overall, Fusion is a good combination of comfort, performance, power, rigidness but lacks in interior quality, safety and entertainment and has high maintenance cost.