Ford Escape 2005
Features
- More powerful four-cylinder
- Optional Safety Canopy rollover protection
- Availability of new "
- Available V-6
- automatic 4WD
- Hybrid powertrain offered in mid-2004
- Intelligent"
Bads
- Long waits, inflated sale prices likely for Hybrid
- Construction quality
- Hybrid brakes not linear
- Slow Hybrid distribution
- No sunroof option for Hybrid
- Short seat bottoms
- Hybrid power flow/navigation screen too small
- Noise
Goods
- Hybrid is most fuel-efficient SUV
- Hybrid eligible for $2,000 tax deduction
- V-6 performance
- Hybrid's 8-year, 100,000-mile warranty
- Hybrid has low emissions
- Carlike maneuverability
- Interior space