I personally consider the One Ford Plan to be a saving grace on my part, with every Ford being manufactured and sold the world over to emulate their Volkswagen, Renault, Citroen, and Peugeot contemporaries; and to be of a European design, no matter where in the world they are sold and manufactured from that point forward.

This means that any Ford product from this point forward will actually be a European vehicle and not a traditional American vehicle in the normal sense.

The Fiesta mimics the Volkswagen Polo, the standard Focus hatchback mimics the standard Golf, the Focus ST mimics the GTI, the Focus RS mimics the Golf G60, R, and R32 models; the Focus sedan mimics the Jetta, the Fusion/Mondeo mimics the Passat, the C-Max mimics the Touran, the S-Max and Galaxy mimics the Sharan and it’s SEAT sibling, the Escape/Kuga mimics the Tiguan, the current-generation Ford Edge mimics what it would be like if Volkswagen had produced a CUV on the Passat platform, the Transit Connect mimics the Volkswagen Caddy and the Fiat Doblo/RAM ProMaster City, the front wheel drive Full-Size Transit mimics the Transporter/EuroVan; and the Lincoln MKZ, MKX; and MKC mimic their Audi contemporaries.

I am happy that Ford will begin to market the Fiesta-based EcoSport B-Segment SUV in the North American market. And it mimics a Polo-based B-Segment SUV that Volkswagen has in their pipeline.

And like many other current and future-generation Ford products, the EcoSport is purely European in nature.

Ford today introduces the all-new EcoSport for North America for those who want space-saving convenience and SUV capability.

Source: Go Small, Live Big with All-New EcoSport – Fords Smallest SUV with the Biggest Personality | Ford Media Center