Ford Reviews

The Puma has been Britain's best-selling new car for three years running. Here's what the independent road tests actually say about it, and every other Ford worth cross-shopping.

Why Ford Still Sets the Pace in the UK

Few badges carry as much weight with British buyers as Ford's. The Puma currently tops the UK sales charts, but that's really just the latest chapter in a much longer story — the Fiesta and Focus dominated the same tables for decades before it, and Ford's reputation for steering feel and body control has followed the badge across all of them, a reputation that shows up repeatedly in independent road tests regardless of which model is being driven. Add wide dealer coverage, strong residual values, and a genuinely broad range spanning city cars to performance icons like the Mustang, and it's easy to see why Ford remains the default cross-shop for so many British buyers.

That range is also wide enough to include some genuine weak spots worth knowing before you buy. The EcoBoost "wet belt" engines and the Powershift automatic gearbox both come up repeatedly across independent reviews and owner reports, and they're not confined to any one model — they turn up across the Fiesta, Focus, and several others built in the same era. The summaries below pull together what testers from multiple outlets found when they actually lived with each of these cars, not just drove them around a launch route, so you can weigh the strengths against the specific weaknesses model by model.

Every Model, One Place

Rather than picking a single opinion and running with it, each review here pulls together several independent road tests and highlights where they agree — and where they don't. Pick a model below to see the full breakdown.

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