第四代福特福克斯将于明年初上市，Cars.co.za网站近日披露了该车新的合成图，让我们率先看到了新款掀背车可能的模样。从先前披露的福克斯轿车看，新车的宽度和长度增加，重量降低。这样的结合并非易事，但包括高和超高硬度钢材和铝制材料在内的现代材料让这些升级成为可能。新一代福克斯所用的平台是源自现行GlobalC平台的衍生版本，也被称为C2。据传所有版本轴距都是2.7米，与大多数同级竞争车型一样，同时重量比现行版降低50公斤。至于外观，Cars.co.za网站表示，新车将采用更顺滑线条，类似最新一代嘉年华。同时装配质量进一步提升，车身面板接缝更小。至于动力系统，新车预计将搭载升级后的1.0和1.5升EcoBoost三缸引擎，搭配普通手动和自动变速器。目前还不清楚，新车是否会提供取自现行版嘉年华的六速自动变速器，或者像通用那样为新车提供九速变速器。如果欧版和美版车能提供九速变速器那将是极好的。

Will The Fourth-Gen Ford Focus Look Like This?

The fourth generation Ford Focus arrives early next year, and new renderings from Cars.co.za imagine how the hatchback version might look. As we recently stated when presenting you a Ford Focus Sedan rendering created by OmniAuto.it, the new Focus will be wider, longer and lighter. Until recently, this would have been a difficult combination of improvements, but modern materials like high- and ultra-high strength steels and aluminum have made the updates possible.

The new Ford Focus platform will be an evolution of the current Global C, also called C2. Rumor has it that all the variants will offer an eight-foot, 10-inch (2.7 meter) wheelbase, as most of their competitors, and weigh 110 pounds (50 kilograms) less than the current model. In terms of appearance, Cars.co.za say the new Focus has sleeker lines, similar to those used by the latest generation of Fiesta. The build quality is also better, including narrower body panel gaps.

In terms of engines, the new Focus should adopt the 1.0- and 1.5-liter EcoBoost units – both of them with only three cylinders. Transmissions should be a conventional automatic and a manual. We just do not know yet if the Focus will have the six-speed unit that is currently used by the Fiesta or whether Ford will adopt the nine-speed transmission, which stems from a partnership with General Motors. We would bet on the latter for markets like Europe and the United States.