2008 Ford Ka spy photos
December 6, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
Update: Ford Australia says no plans for new Ka.
The Ford Ka has been going strong in Europe for more than a decade, but relatively speaking, it hasn’t changed much. The Ka landed in Australia in late 1999, enjoyed a brief life down under and was pulled from sale in 2002. But now there is a new one.
Our European photographers were lucky enough to capture the new Ka undergoing road tests close to the Nürburgring. The bulging front and rear lights are hard to overcome, but we believe they are exaggerated to fool our photographers.
This new Ford Ka is a little different, you see Ford and Fiat decided it was best to join forces and build the Fiat 500 and the new Ford Ka together. Sergio Marchionne, boss of Fiat (the guy who recently crashed his Ferrari 599), and Lewis Booth, chief of Ford Europe, realised that it made sense for both companies to help each other.
Having met at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show, both manufacturers signed a co-operation contract and two years later, the first of the twins was born: the Fiat 500. So now its the Ka’s turn.
Expected in 2008, the new Ford Ka will share pretty much everything with its Fiat brother and both cars will be built in Fiat’s Tychy plant in Poland.
The question for us of course is whether or not the new Ka will make it to Australia, Ford Australia public affairs manager Sinead McAlary told CarAdvice:
I can confirm that we currently have no plans to bring the Ka back to Australia. Fiesta is our B-Car entrant and we’re happy with the inroads we’re making in this segment of the market.
Europeans get three engine choices: a 51kW 1.2-litre, 55kW 1.3-litre Multijet with DPF or a 74kW 1.4-litre. All engines are identical in specification to those powering the Fiat 500.
Photos copyright to Scoopy and used with permission for CarAdvice.com.au only.
No doubt that will be as good looking as that car will get. It will be as fugly as sin when its disguise comes off.PMSL
They’ve gone to town on the body cladding / disguise stuff! Love the porthole window :) But seriously, now that it shares the goods with Fiat, it might actually be half decent.
Arghh, i hope thats the most comprehensive car disguise ever seen on spy pics.. That is a disgrace to modern design. I will reserve judgement till i see an undisguised version but that is a mess!
The Ford KA has to be one of the most ugly cars ever!
My dad used to think of a KA Laser when ever I said anything about the Ford Ka.
I doubt it will be a tarted up plastic box that the first one was. Here’s a bit of trivia – the guy who designed the first Ka has also designed the Orion Falcon!
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is that a fact hey??
my spam word is Fiat
the Ka could also be a twin of the smart car. i put them both in the same bracket
Ha?
In that case, I hope he isn’t going to give the Orion silly oval shapes and become just like an AU series 4!
3 words…………….OH MY GOD!
Is it me or the rear & front lights are ugly!
nothing will save this insect!
I agree Tony
are there things covering over the brake lights & head lights or is that the way it is supposesed to look
ford ka-tastrophy
The bulging front and rear lights are hard to overcome, but we believe they are exaggerated to fool our photographers.
Don’t you guys read the article? It’ll be a Kinetic Smoothie, just you wait and see.
It’s obvious that some don’t read the article but just look at pictures and then post Golfschwein….
^^ I’ll say… I doubt you’d see a new car these days with bits like that protruding because of pedestrian safety legislation, etc.
LOL, it’s a mule, not the finished product! i agree with the last few posts, does anyone actually read the article or even look at the spy pics!?
The finished looks will have elements of the new fiesta…
The current KA has sold very well in europe.
I did!
You did what Golfshwein?? I saw some other pics of it today…..looks nothing like the bra..ed version!
Watto was on here earlier today??Missed him!!
ARH…So this won’t be comming here.
I’d say Ford AUS couldn’t import the new KA cheap enough to sit below the new fiesta.
It’s no rebadged Daewoo!…lol sorry i just had too.
golfschwein…
Yes you were one of the few who did! :)
I thought this wouldn’t come here anyway, it never sold well in OZ and that model was the most crazy shapes at that time.
Hi Bav Mis…I suspect some curious editing going on by the esteemed site owners, which is why my response to Axe doesn’t appear to make sense.
Really????????? What did you say originally??
So can I really call you 24 hours a day???
I have your number remember……hehehe
Me…
Correct the previous generation didn’t sell all that well here but remember this is a totally new car, hence new styling.
If it ever did come back to AUS it would be more popular, but pricing excludes it from being competitive.
Golfschwein, my comment was in aggreement with you! :)
The Ford Ka will benefit from the developments of the Typhoon, the worlds greatest car…. so it will be a great car as well.
I’m happy if it doesnt come to Australia!
Hey FordFutureDriven guy just because the typhoon is great in your mind doesnt mean that all fords will be good! For example Holden has great cars like the Commodore,Clubsport & GTS etc. But not some of them like the new barina and the viva (they are not that good!)
FFD, what makes you think the new Ka will have anything to do with the FPV F6 Phoon? The Ka won’t even come to Oz for starters.
I hear they are slapping the 4L boosted engine into it for the Aussie version, XR4 Turbo.
Do you mean “4Cyl” boosted engine??? Because 4L sounds impossible in a micro car.
Hey Watto…..I think 4 litres would be wishful thinking!
Yeah, I just couldn’t imagine an inline6 Falcon engine (or equivalent) sitting in a Ka.
Power to weight could be fun though! May have to install some wheelie bars on the back though..hahaha
lol, are you saying it’d have to be RWD? (like that VW Golf with the 6L W12 engine in the back)
FWD 4L Ka with a hairdryer, you’d be buying tyres every week, haha.
I’m sure he meant 4cyl because he mentioned the XR4Turbo name.
Yep………….I watch an episode of Top Gear during the week with Clarkson driving that VW! Very funny ……didn’t handle too well…..strangely enough!!
Buying tyres and drive shafts daily!!hehehe
It would not be safe and practical to put a in line ford six in to the ka ,because the power goes through the front wheels not the rear like the falcon. (Toyota made that mistake with the TRD Aurion Car.
Of course, too heavy and powerful and wrong configuration for the Ka. We were just joking about an earlier typo.
So why put it up then!
Hey Duck! Funny if the idiot “Toyota Paul” saw what you said about the TuRD CamAurion! But you’re right about that, though!
Ahhhhhhhhh.We were having a bit of fun Duck!
I luv me 2001 Ka
And Oz sucks for not selling Ford Ka’s here, to many blokes obsessed in filling in the void of the lack of size of there…….um, with large fuel thirsty square cars.
But this just looks like the Echo which was a rip off of the Ka, Go weird, take a risk, this is how the original Ka succeeded and now it is something of a cult Ka.
We are in the year 2008, we should be flying by now but we are still making the same ol same ol designs, designers have no bollocks.
P.S. I luv me Ka
I think it looks like the echo but by the looks of those lights in the bigger photos they arnt the ones goiing in it. you can the see the outline for the tailights around the ones on it. i personally like the original.