The Puma is one of those cars that does most of its talking out on the road rather than on paper.
Naturally, it can be typecast by the usual anchor points that have underpinned car evaluation since the beginning: market segmentation, rivals, proportions, and drivetrain, but there's more to it than these conventional guidelines.
Those guidelines, for the record, include inheriting some sporty Fiesta genes and an EcoBoost 1.0-litre engine that, in addition to defining Ford's small cars for the last decade, also started the trend for three-cylinder turbocharged engines.