FORD has released a sketch of the Kuga, a new crossover that will be introduced at the Frankfurt auto show in September and go on sale in Europe early next year.

With an aggressive style Ford calls kinetic design, first seen in 2006 on the Iosis X concept car and now the new look of Ford of Europe, the Kuga may have appeal that crosses oceans.

Automotive News, an industry weekly, reported last week that Ford was looking at the Kuga as a model for new cars that could be sold in Europe, the United States and beyond, reprising the role of the Escort, the quintessential world car of the 1980s.

Terror on Wheels

Destruction is also designed, Mike Davis explains in “Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb,” his examination of the terror device (Verso, 2007). The book takes its name from the 1920 disaster in which an Italian anarchist named Mario Buda loaded a horse-drawn wagon with dynamite and exploded it on Wall Street in Manhattan, killing 40 people.

Mr. Davis follows the evolution of the car bomb from the Balkans to Palestine, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Lebanon and, of course, Iraq. He reports that a pamphlet published by the Wisconsin Fish and Game Department helped student radicals build bombs in 1969. The formula for mixing fertilizer with fuel oil to blast out duck ponds was later employed by Timothy J. McVeigh in Oklahoma City. PHIL PATTON