REVIEW | 2021 Ford EcoSport Black is little more than a sticker job

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Ford seems to have become the king of 'special' editions. Instead of bringing us their latest-generation offerings like the new Focus, the ST version of the Fiesta or the funky-looking Puma, it insists on sprucing up stale offerings with fresh stickers ...

Image:Instead of bringing us their latest-generation offerings like the new Focus, the ST version of the Fiesta or the funky-looking Puma, it insists on sprucing up stale offerings with fresh stickers and painted trim.

Of course, we are no stranger to the EcoSport, a pioneer of the category in which these days virtually every automaker worth mentioning has a contender.It first landed on our shores in 2013 and was an overnight hit, capturing the market with an enviable grip that peers sought to loosen.A 2018 refresh brought significant styling revisions and a cabin that certainly addressed quality criticisms of before.

You can pick from five different colours: Diamond White, Moondust Silver, Smoke, Blue Lightning and Canyon Ridge. We took our Moondust Silver test unit out of the smog of Johannesburg and into the freshness of the Muldersdrift countryside, for a short working holiday at Kloofzicht Lodge. Its plastic mouldings were put to use when a short wooden pole, standing out of the ground, went undetected by the rear park-distance control. Despite hearing the thwack, there was not so much as a scuff to indicate what had happened.

 

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