It's the effect of the "One Ford" design philosphy - they make ugly cars for Americans so we have to buy them as well.

"Ford claims, is that it has been re-engineering the car to accommodate European tastes"

I'm slighly amused by the fact that Ford decided to try to compete with the Nissan Juke(Joke) that still looks like Darth Vader's helmet that got sat on by an elephant.

Designers who learnt how to work a computer at car design college but seem to have to a mental block when it comes to designing an elegant car.

Its got some seriously foul looking competition, in no particular order Mitsi AX, Fiat 500L (MPW version even worse if that were possible) , Chrylser Ypsilion, Land Rover Ewok, MINI Countryman, Audi A1.

I know that you don't see a car from sitting inside, but i could not spend my hard earned on a car that would repulse its own mother.

Serious entrant - it is grotseque! However, one doesn't see that when driving it and the interior suits one then buy it, all other things being equal. Ugly design and the colour shown doesn't do it any favours either.

Flaming awful. It looks like someone puffed up a Cat B damaged Fiesta with a pair of bellows. I must admit I did initially misread the name of the car too - Ecosport became Escort....!

I really can't understand all this vitriol aimed at the Juke, I wouldn't buy one but I too had one as a hire car last year in Scotland and unexpectedly ended up spending about 9 hours driving up and back on the west coast. It was comfortable, handled well, could have done with more power (but I've never driven a car I don't say that about sooner or later). I liked the interior, there's interest to it, there are some hard plastics but no rattles or squeeks. It's not a big car externally so the interior is the size you'd expect, I don't recall it being cramped or having a problem with the hand brake for two normal sized people.

Live a little and celebrate the variety of design we have on the roads right now. I hate to think of the appoplectic state some of the posters are going to work themselves into when designers, unconstrained by traditional engines can really go to town on electric car design.