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Written by Stephen Dobie
Remember the old Ford Puma? It was launched via an achingly cool Bullitt ad, with Steve McQueen digitally placed behind the wheel. It"s of full credit to the car"s styling that being dropped into the world"s most famous car chase didn"t seem jarring, too. That Puma was just one of a small army of small coupes that dominated the 1990s; the go-to alternative when you needed a small, affordable, practical-ish car, but didn"t want a boring old hatchback. Sound familiar? That"s the same criteria that"s led to the small SUV or crossover coming to be. The sub-genre of car that"s also killed off the small coupe. It"s with some irony or arguably total inevitability that the Puma name returns on a diddly crossover, then, a Fiesta-sized thing that"ll take on the Nissan Juke, Seat Arona, VW T-Cross and a million others.
Date written: 26 Jun 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16131
Remember the old Ford Puma? It was launched via an achingly cool Bullitt ad, with Steve McQueen digitally placed behind the wheel. It"s of full credit to the car"s styling that being dropped into the world"s most famous car chase didn"t seem jarring, too. That Puma was just one of a small army of small coupes that dominated the 1990s; the go-to alternative when you needed a small, affordable, practical-ish car, but didn"t want a boring old hatchback. Sound familiar? That"s the same criteria that"s led to the small SUV or crossover coming to be. The sub-genre of car that"s also killed off the small coupe. It"s with some irony or arguably total inevitability that the Puma name returns on a diddly crossover, then, a Fiesta-sized thing that"ll take on the Nissan Juke, Seat Arona, VW T-Cross and a million others.
Date written: 26 Jun 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16131