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| 2014Hybrid.com |
Having been advertised for months prior as a Prius beater, The 2014 Ford’s C-Max Hybrid vaulted to the ninth spot among hybrid sales in its inaugural month last September.
Ford’s ads have especially targeted the spacious 42 mpg Prius v highlighting any perceived advantage. The 2014 C-Max Hybrid has been promoted as more fun to drive with 54 more horsepower than the Prius Liftback and Prius v while delivering mileage and interior capacity between the two. Further, drivers won’t have to suffer with unexciting styling, says Ford which has played a strategy of knocking Toyota’s icons while hoping to establish a similar one of its own.
Half a year into it, the five-seater 2014 C-Max Hybrid has climbed within top-six sales territory trailing the established number-one Prius Liftback, which outsells any other hybrid by no less than three to one.
The 2014 C-Max has achieved this despite an outcry among some buyers who, along with several car reviewers, say they cannot get within five to nine mpg of its 47 mpg EPA rating for city, highway and combined driving.