Unfortunately for Escape, the seats themselves are pretty cramped. You can genuinely sit low and enveloped in the Escape, with more lateral support than CR-V or RAV4 provide in their sportiest trims. The driving position is suitably sporty to match those big rims outside. Really lets the front and back seat passengers both enjoy the sky above.
Other cabin options help dramatically: the $1500 moonroof is delightful for its speedy operation and great size. Yes, it is a world better than the boxy first-gen model that was on the market forever, but certainly not a head-turning silhouette like the new CX-5 or new CR-V.Ģ017 Escape might be the Renee Zellweger of facelifts: looking weird and worse than before somehow. Pretty faint praise indeed for the Escape’s exterior design. Insult to injury? This boring paintwork costs an extra $400. They do help the Escape look credibly sporty next to most CUV rivals. This Escape even wore the optional 19-inch alloys for an extra 700 clams. It almost looks like the old lights are under this trim piece… It looks worse than before with slightly slimmer taillights (now LED lit on the Titanium) and a wide piece of body-color plastic across the upper tailgate. In the rump, the Escape has one of the least successful makeovers in recent auto-design history. In profile, Escape is unchanged versus before. It is pseudo-off-roady but mostly just looks downmarket and cheap in 2017. This is a shame – the Euro Escapes with this option look sharp and modern.įor our tester, this means a huge swath of the lower body, fenders and bumpers have inches of black plastic cladding. But there is still plenty of brightwork.Īs before, there are no USA Escapes with fully painted bodywork. Silvery brightwork for the inner grille, lower splitter and roof rack does lessen the amount of chrome on the car. It is mounted lower and more vertically onto the Escape nose but sits slightly unhappily in its surroundings. Escape now has sharp and crisp nighttime lighting, and rarely needs its halogen highbeams engaged. The xenon lowbeams are much more welcome for their functional improvement. In addition, the LEDs are that old-fashioned kind with visible individual dots instead of a continuous line of white light. It does look different than before but not, we’d argue, any better. LED accents on this Titanium trim form a puppy-dog facial expression with the eyebrows up. This redesign brings a new grille, front bumpers and lighting to Escape. In the Escape’s case, the car is nowhere near new. It lets them slap that redesigned or the rarely-true “All New” tagline on their marketing.
Manufacturers are always eager for the slightest change of appearance or content. Let’s structure this review with the normal Exterior, Interior, Performance and Price section headings. It is genuinely sporty in corners in a way that the Jeep Cherokee or Chevy Equinox cannot begin to match.īut is that enough? Huge sales of nearly 300k units a year would indicate that Escape is still plenty competitive. We spent a week with the new Escape Titanium EcoBoost 4WD – the tippy top drivetrain and trim level.ĭespite the familiar looks inside and out, Escape still shines as one of the best-driving compact crossovers around. Is this lightest-of-light refreshes for 2017 enough to keep Escape competitive with its arch-rivals RAV4 and CR-V? How about the dozens of other new CUVs with the same $25-$40k pricerange? Handling and engine shared with the Range Rover Evoque, but with pricing $20k less? Sign us up.įive years later and this newly-refreshed 2017 model is not nearly as appealing.
Ford launched this platform for the Escape around 2012 and it was a revelation for the compact crossover segment.
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