Ford Iosis MAX

The Ford Iosis MAX was a concept car that Ford showed at the Geneva motor show in 2009. It never entered series production, but it previewed the second generation of the Ford C-MAX, which arrived in 2010. The concept was a four-seat compact van drawn in Ford's Kinetic Design language by chief designer Martin Smith, and a running prototype was built in eight months at the Ford development centre in Cologne. It had no B-pillar, a panoramic glass roof from the windscreen to the tailgate, rear doors that swung outwards on a parallelogram linkage, cameras instead of door mirrors, and touchscreen controls that appeared only when needed. Power came from a 1.6-litre EcoBoost petrol engine rated at 132 kilowatts with a six-speed PowerShift dual-clutch gearbox, and that engine reached production in the Mondeo, S-MAX and Galaxy from spring 2010.