The rear seat in the escape can slide back 6” making it have much more legroom. My kids complained when we looked at buying the BS and maverick because they couldn’t fit comfortably and the shortest kid is only 5’5”. I’m 6”2” and have the drivers seat as far back as it will go. The ford escape has almost 41” of rear seat legroom. The BS has 37” and the maverick has 36-37”. That’s a pretty big difference. 

The difference between the Maverick/Bronco Sport vs the Escape is about 3-4 inches, but for some reason the hybrid Escape loses about 1.5 inch over the gas models.   In the grand scheme of thing, how much of an impact is it going to be? I had my 78 year old parents and In laws in the back of the Bronco Sport I have and they didn't complain about it. I normally keep my seat all the way back since I'm tall.    The rear leg room of the previous gen Escape is roughly equitant to what the Maverick and Bronco Sport have

Maybe because Ford was fined $365 Million for doing that? FFS Ford to pay $365 million in US import tariff evasion case   Ford has built unibody products for years at OHP-they built the Nissan based minivans and the Escape/Mariner years back 

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That chrome emblem looks wayyyy out of place on that blacked out package... Showing that once again, Ford is too cheap to have a proper coloured emblem. 

Yep, but on 2025+ it turns on automatically every time you activate cruise control. There's no option to set if off by default.   It's an extremely annoying oversight. 

More overview and photos of the Highlander EV   https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a70293168/2027-toyota-highlander-ev-revealed/  

The current Ford China Territory (Equator Sport) is the same width as Edge (76”) and has up to 40” of rear legroom It has roughly 107” wheelbase so similar to an Escape while the Equator is a longer wheelbase 3 row version.   What drives me nuts is that Ford developed these for China but never really thought further afield  than South Africa and a few close Asian Markets.    I’m hoping that the recently acquired third plant in Thailand starts producing multiple C2 vehicles becuse these days, there’s precious little chance of getting anything out of Ford Europe 

I saw this photoshop on YouTube today. I think it looks pretty good. This seems to have a more aggressive off-road body to it, similar to the scout or rivian. It would be nice if the ce1 truck was more like this.

The escape was Ford’s only affordable family vehicle. The maverick and Bronco sport just don’t have the rear legroom for families. While the BS is much better looking, it’s better suited to singles and couples without kids. Same for Maverick. I also doubt Maverick would get escape customers. They seem like different markets to me. Did escape sales go down with the introduction of the maverick? I’d guess escape customers will go to other brands unless these incentives are massive.