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Just wanted to throw this out there, be safe and have happy new year! Hopefully 2021 goes better for everyone, including Ford. I just want to test drive a Bronco in 2021! For me I'm hitting the road to Howell and will be spending the last few hours of 2020 in Michigan. Whatever you do, just be safe. No burning down the house with NYE fireworks.

I'm sorry. I regret to inform you that you're not allowed to like your Escape. It's a dumpster fire piece of garbage - the internet and reviewers said so.

Ford would appear to have interesting options if the decision is made to manufacture batteries. Solid Power, a company in which Ford have an investment stake (along with BMW and others) has made solid progress (pun intended) on solid state batteries: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/12/11/solid-state-batteries-theyre-everywhere-theyre-everywhere/

Nice job. However, it really is all about personal perspective. IMO, the HRV has the worst interior on your list. Info screen has be one very important and CX 5 is useless and CRV is next to useless. The system on my Crosstrek was terrible compared to my Escape. So I think you need to do a rearrangement of your rankings. Having lived with my 2020 Escape for over 8 months now, my only complaints are the cheap looking door cards, no auto dimming mirror or fog lights, and no one up on driver side power window on $32,000 vehicle. Ths vehicle looks great on the outside and inside otherwise. Great tricoat, metallic paint job that pops with black and piano black trim and 19 inch alloy wheels and attractive, premium sandstone interior.

It does seem that Ford has real hit on its hands with new F150 Powerboost, but I was wondering to what the production capabilities are. Hopefully they are greater than 25,000/year or so. But looking at Ford's track record on hybrid production, I don't see how it could be much more.

Escape interior design is fine. It's a matter of taste and highly subjective. It is really the quality of material that I think Ford can do better. If you drive the CX-5 and Escape back to back, you will really feel the quality difference. Everything you touch in the Mazda feels like it belongs in a more expensive car. Everything you touch in the Ford feels like it belongs in a cheaper car. Also, whether you like it or not, the size of the screen as become an important factor in shopping comparison. It is a key metric that people consider now when buying new vehicles and Ford should have put in a larger screen in the Escape. This is an easy fix - just look at the Chinese Escape interior. The other thing that Ford should address with a mid cycle update is the exterior appearance. The car just look too cheap with too much black plastic. Why is the rear bumper black matte plastic? What year is this? The fancier looking wheels in the new appearance packages will help too but overall, the US spec Escape needs better detailing. More chrome or aluminium in appropriate places. More painted parts. More cohesive exterior themes. Again, this is pretty easy fix - just look at the Kuga ST-Line and Vignale exterior in Europe or the Chinese Escape - both much expensive-looking car than the US-spec Escape. And lastly, I sound like a broken record but Ford should really push the hybrid and PHEV. Survey after survey shows that people are very pre-disposed to look at hybrid and PHEV when replacing their current ICE only cars. Ford made a really big mistake 8 years ago killing the Escape hybrid and stopping all the momentum the nameplate had built up with hybrid shoppers. It is still in my opinion, one of the bigger blunder under Alan Mulally. Ford should do everything it can to restore Escape as the "go to" choice for hybrid CUV. Honda for some reason also whiffed and did not bring over the CR-V hybrid initially so this allowed Toyota to quitely dominate the segment.

Here is some of the competitions interiors: Nissan Rogue Hyundai Tuscon honda crv Toyota rav4 chevrolet equinox mazda cx5 Bronco sport ford escape The escape is one of the newer designs here but it already looks old to me. The only interior that is worse is the equinox. The screen on the rav4 looks cheap, but otherwise I like it’s rugged looking design. If Toyota fixed the screen with its giant bezel it would be a lot better but for now it’s only slightly better than the escape. The layout of the Honda isn’t exciting at all, but the materials are much better than the escapes, which give it a more premium feel. The Mazda has a very similar design to the escape but they managed to make an interior that virtually everyone praises. If mazda adds a bigger screen and digital dash, it will be close to the top for me. I like the design of the Tucson’s interior. I’m not sure how well it will work with all of those touch buttons though. The rogues interior surprised me. I think it’s the best looking of the bunch. I don’t really care for the bronco sports interior either. interior 1. Rogue 2. Tuscon 3. CX5 4. CRV 5. RAV4 6. Bronco Sport 7. Escape 8. Equinox exterior 1. Bronco sport 2. CX5 3. Rav4 4. Rogue 5. crv 6. tuscon 7. escape 8. equinox bronco sport is the best looking of the bunch on the exterior. 2 through 4 could really be switched in any order depending on trim. The rav4 trd off road and xse hybrid trims look really good, but the lower trims are kinda boring. The rogue looks good in pictures and has the boxier shape I like, but I’m not a fan of nissans design language so I’d have to see that new front in person. Crv is the appliance you’d expect it to be and puts it in the middle of the pack. If the Tuscon toned down all the edges, it would look a lot better. Like the crv, the escape has appliance looks. There’s nothing offensive about it, but there’s nothing that makes me want to buy it either. It also looks like it’s smiling which I don’t care for and it’s a bit dated on the exterior since it’s using design elements that have been around since 2013 on other ford’s. The equinox is just garbage all around.

My Corsair leasing process was the best I've ever had, hands down. I worked with one person start-to-finish, most of the communication was via phone/email/text. I got the right level of information in a timely manner. All of the paperwork was drawn up and ready to go once we hammered everything out, and most of the time at the dealership was spent doing the vehicle walkthrough. It's been a shame that my service experience hasn't been anywhere close to what they're advertising.

We tried to buy a freezer back in May. Upright units were on back order for 6 months. Got lucky and found a chest type in stock.

The exterior of the escape is decent but leaning bland...the interior is just garbage compared to what else is out there...the idea of believing former ford car buyers would migrate to higher priced, dismal at best lower-end suv's seems to have been fanciful thought by ford marketing....the lower end offerings from ford are 10 steps below the competition and the increased price has placed those offerings squarely in what the hell is ford thinking territory...dam that product just reeks "pontiac"of the 80's..too much garbage-cheap-plastic in the interior was asnine thought

Try getting appliances with so many people doing home remodeling projects thanks to the pandemic. I ordered new kitchen appliances on September 25th. Three of the appliances arrived 3 weeks ago but the side-by-side refrigerator with ice and water dispenser still hasn't arrived. Now I'm waiting for the refrigerator to come in so everything can be installed at the same time. Until then I'm stuck waiting to put the property on the market.

We our currently on Christmas shutdown. We have been running at full capacity and working OT as long as we can get parts. I expect it will be the same when we return.Even the dealers around the plant are short on inventory.

Agreed. Different CUVs for different people. IF I were to buy a compact CUV, I would choose an Escape and wouldn't even consider a Bronco Sport. I'm not a fan of boxy styling. But they did away with the paddle shifters for 2021, ugh.

Wagoneer is fullsize BOF. It's sort of like asking what is the point of Expedition while looking at a photo of an Explorer. Subcompact: Renegade vs. Puma/EcoSport Compact short: Compass vs. Bronco Sport Compact long: Cherokee vs. Escape Heritage: Wrangler vs. Bronco Midsize 5 seat: Grand Cherokee vs. Edge Large: Durango Grand Cherokee LWB vs. Explorer Fullsize: Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer vs. Expedition

I think it’s going to be built on the world class Ram chassis which is good. That chassis absolutely needs to be under more vehicles.

You were correct all along CKNSLS sir. The good news for Ford is that Jim Hackett's "design thinking" philosophy is getting traction within the company. Design thinking should definitely help creating products that are more appealing and customer centered. I think in a few years, Ford will have many more "hits" than "misses", and that Ford's reputation of putting out cheap and nasty products will finally start to wane.

I called it a "Fail" when I first saw it and caught a lot of cr*p on here for it. Everybody on here is calling the hybrid the "Hail Mary" for this vehicle. This is a giant "we will see".

Premium Green and Gold are NOT safe to mix with Orange or Yellow. Technically, Gold should not be mixed with Premium Green either. It does last longer, but it is NOT an OAT like "Specialty Green", Orange or Yellow. This is outdated, but correct until the time Ford said Yellow directly replaces Specialty Green and Orange. https://parts.ford.com/content/dam/ford-parts/resources/motorcraftpdf/Coolants_Brochure.pdf

Some Dealers allow inventory "In Transit" to show in their online inventory but there should be a notice on their website identifying those units as being in transit.

He’s just mad because he thought he found the truck he wanted and now it’s not available. But yeah, expand your requirements and get the 101a package or just order a 2021.

The Escape miss is the big one. The compact CUV is now the biggest vehicle segment in the world and Ford kind of whiffed on it. I think Ford should be looking at an earlier mid cycle and try to fix some of the problems. A general upgrade of interior material will go a long ways and maybe a more concerted effort to focus the marketing on hybrid and PHEV versions. I know the battery setback with PHEV was not Ford's fault but when that issue is resolved, I hope Ford puts the PHEV version front and center in the marketing and try to get Escape established as the PHEV choice in the segment before RAV4 runs away with it.

It's amazing how time flies. I was just looking at the title for the Bronco and was shocked to see that I bought this thing 17 years ago! I was even more shocked by the current prices of 1st gen Broncos for sale on the 'net. I finished the outside of the passenger side door today. I still need to find a missing clip for the lock cylinder before I can put the interior trim on the door. That's pretty much it for the body for now. I added Autometer fuel level and battery voltage gauges under the dash but I haven't wired them yet. It already had matching Autometer tach, oil pressure and water temp gauges. I plan to change the oil in the next couple of days so hopefully I can fire it up and get that Holley carb functioning properly again.