Ford's Answer To The Prius

It seems in the very near future Ford will have an answer to the Toyota Prius-V... The C-Max. Technology and fuel-savings is the name of the game with the C-Max where the Prius-V offers 44mpg (A number often challenged by drivers) the C-Max is shooting for 47mpg as it's "Real World" mpg values.

Gas2 also wrote about the C-Max releasing the following:


Ford has been talking up the C-Max Hybrid for at least two years now as an integral part of its “One Ford” lineup of limited-platform vehicles. Rather than developing an all-new platform, Ford plans to cut down the number of platforms, and make the remaining platforms easy to configure into different vehicles. The C-Max Hybrid, for example, shares the Global C-Platform with the 2012 Focus, and Ford has been hyping the C-Max Hybrid up as their answer to the Prius V.
The C-Max Hybrid will go on sale this fall starting at $25,995, about $400 cheaper than the Prius V. But the comparisons don’t stop there. Ford says that across the entire 500-mile range of the C-Max Hybrid, drivers will have a total of 188 horsepower at their disposal. That’s 54 more than the 134 horsepower of the Prius V, which means the Ford is also faster. Ford also dropped a little nugget of knowledge, noting that the average income of current hybrid buyers, versus early adopters who bought the Prius, has shrunk by $15,000.


Source: Gas 2.0 (http://s.tt/1h469)


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