Ford EcoSport, unveiled earlier this month at Delhi Auto Expo in India, is designed a global product. Now, global product usually means a cheap and dreary eco car for the Far East or South America. Not this time though. The EcoSport has all the ingredients of a proper compact crossover. After watching Buick proudly unveil the new Encore at Detroit Motor Show, Ford must be thinking they should have made a bigger fuss about the Ecosport.

Here Ford Group Vice President J Mays tries to explain the car and the idea behind it.