Ford drives in SUV EcoSport

Flush with the success of hatchback Figo, Ford India on Wednesday unveiled another global product - a compact SUV called EcoSport - besides announcing a fresh investment of $142 million for the product in its Chennai facility.

EcoSport has been built on Ford’s latest global platform and comes with a 1,000 cc, 3-cylinder petrol engine. But the company claims that this engine will provide power equal to a 1.6-litre engine at 120 ps.

EcoSport is the second of eight new global models that Ford plans to launch in India as it targets Asian and African markets in a push to increase annual global sales to 8 million units by 2015.