Ford Espa is a global model owned by Ford, its American version first appeared in 2000, that is, the first generation of Ford first-generation Escape, in 2008 Ford launched a new version of the Espa in the European market, and adopted the name Kuga, in 2012 Changan Ford localized the Exodus and used the European version of the name.
 
For a long time, 200,000-300,000 joint venture SUVs were almost exclusively available from Tiguan except for Japanese cars, and this situation did not end until the launch of the Tiger. So before the Envision, the Tiger had been Tiguan's main competitor, but the Tiger did not pose a serious challenge to the Tiguan, but fortunately, the Tiger made a mid-term facelift to the two powertrains in 2015 and 2016 respectively, bringing this "old car" back to the front-line camp.
 
The Wing Tiger provides 1.5T and 2.0T two kinds of power, the 1.5T engine in 2015 replaced the previous British import of 1.6T models, although the displacement has become smaller, but the power has been improved, the maximum power of the four-cylinder engine is 181 horsepower, the maximum torque is 240 Nm, which is stronger than the Tiguan's 1.8T engine, coupled with the improvement of the gearbox matching, the 1.5T Wing Tiger 0-100 km acceleration into 10 seconds. The 2.0T Impreza provides the best power performance in its class, with a 0-100 km and more than 7 seconds score among all compact SUVs, which is amazingly fast.
 
The steering is very light and smooth, and the suspension settings are also on the comfortable side, and although it looks quite tough, it is actually a car that is easy to drive. The noise suppression is also excellent, and the interior of the car is well insulated from both driving noise and external noises, and the driving quality is excellent.
 
All four 2.0T models of the Impreza adopt a timely four-wheel drive system. This set of front-wheel drive structure-based timely four-wheel drive system is the most common in urban SUVs, which uses the electronic auxiliary braking of the four wheels to achieve the power distribution between the left and right wheels of the front and rear axles, and does not have much escape performance, mainly to improve the control of rain and snow weather.
 
The configuration level of the Yihu is very high, after the mid-term facelift, automatic start and stop, one-key lifting of the power window of the whole car, knee airbags, paddle shifters These functions have become the standard configuration of the whole system, and the high-end car also has a very high-grade electric tailgate.
 
In terms of riding space, the Yihu is more like a European car, and the rear row is not only inferior to the Japanese that play space magic at every turn, but also has the upper hand compared to domestic European cars such as the Tiguan that are lengthened at every turn. In fact, the space practicality of this level of car is enough for the daily use of ordinary families, and the difference in the comfort of the rear occupants also lives in the setting of the seats, and the rear row of the Yihu is not a weakness.
 
Ford Fiesta and Focus from Europe have serious reliability problems, but the quality of the Impreza is actually trustworthy, its air conditioning and paint are the more concentrated aspects of the failure rate, after a certain age, the failure of the driving system has also begun to increase, but the failure rate has not reached a more serious level, but it cannot be compared with CR-V, Tucson and other cars.
 
In terms of safety, the Ford Tiger has a soft underbelly in its class, in the IIHS crash test before 2016, the Ford Tiger's frontal small-angle overlap collision score was "poor", after making safety improvements, in 2017, it only received an "acceptable" evaluation, and the models sold in the Chinese market may not have undergone safety improvements.
Ford Impreza test report