ford ecosport

[daves86]

spotted this in the costco parking lot in madison heights today

anyone have info on it?

 

[4v Shane]

Looks like an Escape to me :dunno:

 

[91trunk]

It's a SUV from South America

 

[foxbodydave]

and its already got a cracked front bumper

 

[white out]

looks like it needs bigger brakes.

Nick

 

[cjmatt]

its a cheap suv that runs on basically whatever you wanna put in it. theyve been out forver down in south america. theyre built in brazil

 

[daves86]

they coming to america? or is this a mule?


nice to see a ford employee shopping at costco on work hours

 

[RSWANNABE]

they coming to america? or is this a mule?


nice to see a ford employee shopping at costco on work hours

Watch it. That doesn't happen.

 

[00sonolow]

They are already here. There underneath some Escape badges at the Ford dealership.

 

[cjmatt]

they coming to america? or is this a mule?


nice to see a ford employee shopping at costco on work hours

theyre not coming here. its probably just an engineer working on the calibration. we do all the tuning and stuff on the cars up here for south america. he was probably out on a test drive gettin lunch

 

[91Notch]

it's got the Fusion headlight mod

 

[white out]

notice computer and gauges on the a-pillar.

Nick

 

[beermaker50]

Ford does the Calibration here is the US for that vehicle....the front bumper is probabaly the result of an off road trip in Arizona earlier this year...at least what the little birdy said....

 

[beermaker50]

sometimes known as the flight of 576.....

 

[SVT32VDOHC]

and its already got a cracked front bumper

:roll: I noticed that first thing on that picture. lol

 

[daves86]

sometimes known as the flight of 576.....

were you drving it ? shopping at costco?

 

[charger758]

As bad as it might look having an M plate parked at a store during work hours, it is actually not that bad a thing. As you can see the calibrator has his toughbook in the car which means there is a decent chance he is taking data. Doing random vehicle soaks is important to find potential issues, and driving the car as a customer would is the easiest way to do so.

That car has a B4M sticker on it, which means it is a Brazilian 4wd manual vehicle, which means it is an alcohol car. They have been having problems with startup and drive aways while running pure E100 so he is actually probably doing something useful. Now if it was a gasoline car (which are running pretty much just fine) and there was no toughbook in it. Yeah then I would agree that the person is pure slacker and should be given a few lashings

Heck yesterday there was a GM M plate at the beer making store I frequent. Like I said, the easiest way to find problems, is to drive it like a customer would.