It’s Harry Potter. The candles float.

I would absolutely buy one. I’m in the market and I’ve been waiting for this redesign.

It’s the latter. It’s a step-up engine but generates a bit less power than the 2.5. It makes sense to offer in a market where the 2.0 is the standard engine, but relatively few people in the US are gonna wanna pay more money for better mileage when gas is still pretty affordable. If they can juice the thing and make…

Motor Trend is the only place I saw this, but I hope it’s not true.

It’s hitting other countries as early as summer. But they are tuning the engine to each market, and the particular focus of the engine its current form (a bit less power than the 2.5, with significantly better mileage than the 2.0-G) is a hard sell for a ‘premium’ engine option in the US, where gas is cheap.

Thanks for this, Justin.

Well, that’s exciting.

That would be a real shame.

I’m sure you’ve driven both extensively enough to say that.

I think they both look great, and it was smart of them to do, essentially, clean sheet designs for each form factor. Neither feels like an afterthought.

I am almost certainly replacing my Fiesta ST with one of these, but I’m waffling on whether or not to wait around for Skyactiv-X. Did they mention any sort of timescale for the US release? Most places seem to say late 2019, but Motor Trend is convinced we won’t see it before 2021.

Agreed. Love that steering wheel.

Zero!

Well sure, but that doesn’t play into the decision right now.

Love that blue. It’s close to the shade they used to introduce the 2013 CX-5.

The 2019 3 is the first model on a brand new platform. It does not share one with the 6.

The 2019’s infotainment is knob-only. It’s not a touchscreen.

My favorite is ‘Yellow.’

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Hey copyeditors, let’s stop using the word simplistic when we mean simple. They are not the same.