2015 Ford Fusion Titanium AWD

It’s a Detroit midsize auto that I collection just for the account of driving. That’s a adjudication in and of itself.
This heavily optioned 2015 Ford Fusion Used Cars Dealer in Dubai, a Titanium EcoBoost AWD archetypal loaned to us by Ford Canada for the final anniversary of March, isn’t perfect.

• • U.S. Bazaar Price As Tested: $38,440
• • Horsepower: 240 @ 5500 rpm
• • Torque: 270 lb-ft @3000 rpm
• • Observed Ammunition Economy: 19.3 mpg 

But from the standpoint of on-road dynamics, the Fusion does what alone a brace added average sedans currently on the bazaar can do: animate their buyer to yield the continued way home.

The Fusion’s imperfections are notable, however, conceivably to a greater amount because the midsize Ford excels at the act of bringing its pilot joy. According to my Grand Caravan-driving brother, aswell a ancestor of four, the Fusion’s rear seat, “isn’t bad,” but it lacks the amplitude of the top-selling midsize car, Toyota’s Camry. Although I’ve spent abundant time now with MyFordTouch to acquisition it abundantly sensible, the arrangement continues to be just apparent slow. Why am I cat-and-mouse and cat-and-mouse and cat-and-mouse for altitude ascendancy options to arise afterwards I alpha the car? Autogenous actual superior is a mix of affable (steering caster and armrests, for example), able (dash top and aperture surfaces) and atramentous (matte atramentous button beleaguer on the centre stack.) On the accountable of performance, this top-flight 2.0L turbo is alone decent. In a apple in which the three acknowledged midsize nameplates abide to blade the no-V6 trend of their slower-selling rivals, this four-cylinder comes up 37 ponies abbreviate (on approved fuel) of the Toyota Camry’s 3.5L V6. Moreover, our accurate all-wheel-drive Fusion tips the scales with an added 201 pounds. (Titanium front-wheel-drive Fusions are 155 pounds lighter than our car.)

2015 Ford Fusion AWD rearIn added words, there’s abundant boost, but the Fusion never larboard me with the I-can’t-believe-it’s-this-fast activity engendered by V6-engined versions of the Camry, Honda Accord, and Nissan Altima. In this age, that’s what the a lot of able powerplant in a multi-engine calendar should do. 0-60 mph in 7.3 seconds, seriously? At atomic the Fusion’s all-wheel-drive arrangement allows ability to be activated to pavement in a hurry, with none of the boundless wheelspin of about all its rivals.
So if the Fusion is abundantly but not essentially boosted, area does it amount on the eco front? Our tester was a drinker, averaging 19.3 mpg in a mix of city-limits and artery alive over the advance of a week. It’s rated by the EPA at 22 in the city; 31 on the highway. In our hands, the poor breadth wasn’t an anomaly. The endure time we activated a Fusion with the aforementioned powertrain, in the bounce of 2013, it averaged 18.4 mpg.

2015 Ford Fusion brick red interiorThe interior’s not perfect, the car isn’t that quick, and it consumes added ammunition than the Camry V6 we just collection in the asleep of winter, yet actuality I am adage this is the one I’d accept to drive.

True, a Mazda 6 is the added alive car, but it’s missing 30% of the Fusion’s torque. And while the Mazda handles at an able akin if pushed absolutely hard, it’s not about as serene as the Fusion, which rides durably but never allows the outsold world’s asperous pavement to be publicized central the cabin.

2015 Ford Fusion brick red interiorThis Fusion, cutting Goodyear Eagle LS2s (235/45R18s) doesn’t ride as durably as the a lot of advancing Accords, either, and I adopt the way its absolute council projects signs of life; the way it progressively builds up its weight. Ford didn’t body an absolute sports auto actuality – there’s affluence of allowance for this anatomy to morph into an ST and a charge for the automated manual to accretion activity – but it’s agreeable to drive in all circumstances, behindhand of speed.

That’s a blue-blooded accomplishment in an age of antibacterial transportation, an age in which the amaranthine following of clarification shuts out a lot of manifestations of interactivity.

As for the Fusion Titanium’s alternative extras, because they did annihilation to adapt the on-road behaviour, they had little appulse on the way I beheld the car’s absolute aspects.

2015 Ford Fusion autogenous detailsIn Ford’s U.S. appraisement scheme, the $33,115 Magnetic Metallic Titanium 2.0L EcoBoost AWD was topped off with a $1200 disciplinarian abetment amalgamation (which includes dark atom assist, lane abandonment warning, lane accumulate abetment and more), the $895 alive esplanade abetment (always a wonder), $995 adaptive cruise, $995 sunroof, a $795 red covering actualization amalgamation which included cool-in-the-early-’00s 18-inch wheels, a $150 acrimonious council wheel, $395 for acrimonious and cooled foreground seats, $190 inflatable rear bench belts, and a $795 aeronautics arrangement for a $38,440 total.

Don’t adjudicator the Fusion based on such an over-equipped sticker. As of this writing, alone 5% of the 2015 Fusions in banal at U.S. dealers are adapted with all-wheel-drive, according to Cars.com. Less than one-quarter of those cars are priced aloft $35,000. This car, therefore, is not a archetypal Fusion, but at its amount it consistently displays the best and affliction of the Fusion lineup: acceptable looks, a annealed structure, a big trunk, an EcoBoost engine which lacks eco, somewhat poor packaging, and, a lot of importantly, a European appetence for aback alley frolicking.

Timothy Cain is the architect of GoodCarBadCar.net, which obsesses over the chargeless and common advertisement of U.S. and Canadian auto sales figures.