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The Ford Puma has a range of innovative features designed to improve your driving pleasure. Such as Selectable Drive Modes and Ford Co-Pilot360, an impressive set of assistance technologies working together to help manage acceleration, braking, and even steering. These include Adaptive Cruise Control, Pre-Collision Assist, and Evasive Steering Assist, all keeping a watchful eye on the road ahead, alerting you to potential hazards.
Ford Co-Pilot360 combines a range of technologies that, together, work to make your driving experience more comfortable and more enjoyable than ever. For example, Adaptive Cruise Control automatically adjusts your cruise control speed based on the vehicle ahead. The system can even recognise speed signs and adjust your cruise control speed accordingly.
Adaptive Cruise Control adjusts your cruise control speed based on the vehicle ahead. Simply enter the desired speed and distance from the vehicle in front, and Adaptive Cruise Control will automatically maintain the set distance if traffic conditions do not allow travel at the desired cruising speed.
Emergency Steering Assist helps you steer around stopped or slower vehicles to avoid collisions. The system uses radar and a camera to detect slower-moving and stationary vehicles ahead, and provides steering support to help you avoid a vehicle if a collision is imminent. The technology activates if there’s insufficient space to avoid a collision by braking and you initiate evasive action.
Personalise your driving experience using Selectable Drive Modes by altering the Puma’s throttle response, steering, and even gear-change behaviour to match your driving style. There are five different modes including Normal, ECO, Sport, Slippery and Trail. Key information displayed via the 12.3” digital instrument cluster changes between unique colour themes according to which drive mode you have selected.
Bollards, bicycles, low walls… The rear-view camera shows what’s behind you on a screen built into the centre console. As well as revealing objects you might miss, the system displays virtual lines to help you park into the smallest of spaces. The camera activates automatically when you select reverse gear.
Parking in a busy street or a tight space can be tricky. But with Active Park Assist, the Ford Puma makes it easier than you’d ever believe possible. Once activated, the system can identify a suitable parking space, and then automatically steer you in. It can manoeuvre you out of spaces too. All you need to do is operate the accelerator, brake and gears.
Wrong Way Alert uses a forward-facing camera and information from the navigation system to detect if you’re driving against the direction of traffic. The system delivers visual and audible warnings if you drive the wrong way so that you can stop and take the necessary action.
Puma’s LED headlights deliver a precise and intensely bright light beam pattern. These also include unique, signature design LED daytime running lights, as well as static cornering lights to illuminate the inside of a corner when you turn the steering wheel beyond 30 degrees.
The Blind Spot Information System uses RADAR sensors to see vehicles that may be hidden in your blind spot. They’re situated on either side of your Puma and alert you with an orange light, clearly displayed in the side door mirror.
Cross Traffic Alert is part of the Blind Spot Information System. When you’re reversing out of a space and have limited visibility of the traffic situation, Cross Traffic Alert can detect oncoming vehicles and sound a warning. The technology illuminates a light in the wing mirror too (left or right depending on the direction of oncoming traffic).
Whether the signs are at the side of the road or above it, permanent or temporary, Traffic Sign Recognition can identify them. Icons for speed limits and no-overtaking signs are displayed on the instrument cluster, alerting you to changing restrictions.
Hill Start Assist temporarily stops you rolling backwards or forwards when making a hill start. The system works by maintaining pressure to the braking system for an extra 2-3 seconds, giving you more time and control as you move your foot from brake pedal to accelerator. It’s also useful when you’re stopping and starting on slippery surfaces.
A useful night-driving aid, Auto High Beam temporarily dips your headlights when it detects oncoming traffic or a vehicle ahead, stopping you dazzling other drivers. It then automatically reverts back to high beam, giving you maximum visibility.
Parking distance sensors help you judge the distance between your vehicle and obstacles around you. When the sensors detect an object, they activate an audible warning that intensifies the closer you get to it.
Driver Alert constantly monitors your driving behaviour and is designed to detect any changes that could be caused by fatigue. If the system identifies you’re becoming less vigilant, a warning icon appears in the display, suggesting you take a break. If your driving alertness further declines, the message is repeated and combined with a chime.
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