The ink dried on Ford’s electric platform deal with Volkswagen some time ago and now we’re getting our first look at the results of that agreement.
The vehicle spied here and which may or may not be a rolling clay prototype, our spy photographers assure us, Ford’s MEB-based vehicle. The all-electric vehicle is based on the same platform as the ID.3 and the ID.4 and will be sold in Europe, but is unlikely to make it Stateside.
Although it’s still literally under wraps, the shape of the compact-sized crossover can be seen here. Ford appears to have taken this vehicle in a different design direction than the ID.4, preferring straight, boxy lines to the VW’s flowing, rounded lines. That decision also lends to making this look long and low and, at this early stage, pretty good.
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Unfortunately, little more can be gleaned from these early pictures. They are very early, though, because the vehicle isn’t expected to go into production until 2023 at Ford’s Cologne Assembly Plant in Germany.
Although Ford hasn’t released any performance specs, we do know a lot about the MEB platform at this point. The ID.4, for example, gets 250 miles of range, per the EPA, and up to 302 hp in AWD configuration or 201 hp in RWD configuration.
As part of the deal that Ford signed to get the Volkswagen’s EV platform, it agreed to share its pickup and Transit chassis. That will mean that these EVs won’t be the only Ford-VW co-productions on European roads soon.
The next Volkswagen Amarok pickup is expected to share much in common with the Ford Ranger, though the American manufacturer still thinks its will be better. Volkswagen will also get a full-size van out of the arrangement.
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