Review: 2023 Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid – Ruined by High Pricing
What’s up everybody this is the 2023 Ford Escape plug-in hybrid so about the plug-in hybrid version of The Escape well all escapes got a refresh for the 2023 mod year and I am filming this in 2024 but Ford just happened to send me a 2023 but for 2024 there’s really no
Changes so uh it’s all going to be the same and anyway I think it’s a really nice refresh here I really like the sharper headlights it’s really handsome look with it new grill and you the other slight tweaks of the bumper and I really like how that led light extends all the
Way through the grill as well and I I think it’s a really nice refresh up front here I also really like the smaller proportions of the Escape compared to some other SUVs in this compact SUV segment that have grown this one is actually one of the smaller ones
I think these days and kind of gives it a nice more compact easier to park kind of you know Vibe and uh I think it looks really good you know on the sides here you have the uh charge port here in the front that’s the one way you can tell
You’re looking at a plug-in hybrid version of The Escape of course and you have some 18-in wheels that look pretty nice and then going out to the back there they also got some new tail lights you have the the Escape script that’s new there across the tailgate and some
Other minor little tweaks there to the back end but otherwise you know still looks mostly the same and uh you know I don’t think it’s the most distinctive looking thing in this segment there’s certainly some Bolder options in the plug-in hybrid segment as well if you do want something a little more
Eye-catching but I think this nicely Blends in has an attractive look that I think will age well and overall I think they did a good job here on this refresh as far as the styling goes the interior of the 20123 Escape also gets a nice refresh here as well the main thing is
Just this giant screen it’s a 13.2 in touch screen it also replaces the HVAC controls and you have that as a permanent little bar at the bottom of the screen at all times regardless of what you’re doing on the screen but it has Wireless Apple carplay wireless
Android auto and it’s one of the biggest carplay displays in this segment uh and it’s really impressive just you know all the features in the screen are all really nice I like you know the power flow and you have various Drive modes uh you know which do take a couple of TAPS
To get to unfortunately there’s not just like a quick little button to do it but um you know just lots of good stuff there in that screen and it’s pretty quick whenever you first start it up it’s a little slow for the first you know 15 to 30 seconds but then after
That it’s been totally fine it’s been reliable it’s worked pretty well and overall I think it’s actually a really nice Improvement and does put this at the top as far as tech for this segment I believe just as far as screen real estate goes aside from that big change
The only other thing here is you have these quilted leather seats uh which have the micro perforations and uh they’re pretty nice looking although I wish they were perforated all the way through uh but uh you know they’re also heated only there’s no cooling here even
In this fully loaded version and that is something a lot of competitors will give you cold seats and this does not um also some of the materials in here are still kind of cheap for the money this one being almost $50,000 as tested I mean you have like some pretty cheap door
Panels here now the armrest part’s really nice and has a complete different material than what you have on the door panels here but um you know with stuff like even a mspi Outlander having beautiful soft quilted leather here on the door panels This just doesn’t fly
These days um you also like for example by the W this charging pad I guess this is supposed to be easy to remove for cleaning but it’s really just like cheap and flimsy and doesn’t feel very secure in there and uh you know hard plastic down by your knees where again the
Mitsubishi has you know padding and it’s not great so I mean Tech is good you know you have digital gauges fully digital gauges here and all the plug-in hybrid versions which is a nice touch as well you have the Vista panoramic roof here which is a really great touch and
You know there are some things here for example like that the Honda CRV doesn’t offer so I mean it still has some nice stuff but uh you know compared to the best competitors in this segment you know the Tucson plug-in hybrid Outlander plug-in hybrid Sportage plugin hybrid
And the rap 4 Prime outside of the screen sizes you know everything else in here just feels a little lower rent one other little thing though I do want to complement the vehicle on is this bang and Olson stereo you have this B Stereo it’s a 10 speaker stereo it’s an
Optional upgrade here this giant premium package that’s $4,500 on these Escape uh plug-in hybrids and um so that’s one of the things you get and that is actually a really nice sounding stereo the base stereo is a six speaker this is 10 and as actually I was really impressed with
The sound quality one other little thing though I want to mention before I go is that you have this head- up display and some other competitors also have a head- up display but they have real head- up displays that actually project onto the windshield this is this little popup
Screen that you know makes it feel like you’re wearing bifocals or something it’s just bizarre and uh kind of old and outdated so just again odd little things here about the Escape that you know I don’t love but you know I mean like back seat space is still pretty good even for
A vehicle this size cargo space is pretty good you have a spare tire under the floor there even with this being a plug-in hybrid with a battery pack and all that so there are certainly some other nice components to it for sure but uh you know it just unfortunately this
Interior does not feel worthy of its price tag and most of the competitors do feel worthy of their price tag or even better than their price tag but if you’d like to hear more info on the interior of the Escape my wife and I did a full in-depth interior review on the Escape
Whenever this generation first came out and leg room and you know everything else is going to be the same aside from again this new screen in the middle um so definitely check out that video I’ll link it at the end of this one if you want to hear all the details on this
Interior but let’s start up and go for a drive the Escape plug-in hybrid uses the same old Ford key they’ve had for a good long while now it’s a little bit on the thicker side it’s not one of my favorite keys out there but it works totally fine
You have some nice uh metal looking buttons there on the back so I mean it looks nice but uh just a little little big these days but anyway of course Is keyless access keyless entry push button start here in the plug-in hybrid Escape so you just leave the key in your pocket
Hit the engine start button and it turns right on all right so setting off here in the Escape plug-in hybrid so the first thing you notice about it well the first thing I probably notice is that that if you have some electric charge on the battery or if you’re going at low
Speeds it’ll operate as either a hybrid you know just in electric mode or if you have some charge there in the battery then it’ll be completely electric it will default to an electric now mode there’s a bunch of different Drive modes here um where you can either generate
Electricity if you want with a gas engine you can save the battery uh you know power for whenever you want to use it at a later date or you know you can also just have it primarily you deplete that battery first there’s also an auto mode which will try and switch off you
Know I guess when it thinks it is best and uh so you know cruising here it’s nice and quiet you just hear that you know mandated you know sound that it has to admit to alert pedestrians of your arrival uh you know but aside from that
Um totally quiet and it’s you know a nice smooth ride for the most part I don’t think it’s the softest riding plugin hybrid in this segment but um you know it’s been totally fine here and whenever you’re over some rough bumps it can be a little more uh you know jarring
Than some of the competitors but overall I don’t really have any problems with the there are a few interesting things though you’ll notice right away um first off is that the brakes have a little bit of a tricky feel to them where the last like 10 to 15% of travel they get a
Little sticky and they they stop a little faster than you’re wanting it just takes a little bit of a learning curve the first couple of days I was pretty rough with uh my slowdowns you definitely have to finesse it uh but after a few days I did get the hang of
It and now I’m not really doing jerky stops as often as I was before but just you know a little bit more of a learning curve than most of the the other plug-in hybrid competitors that do have better Blended brake pedals that they feel more natural uh other things the steering is
Strangely heavy and it just adds to this whole vehicle itself feeling heavy since with this battery pack and still just only being front wheeel dys there still over 4,000 lbs for the curb we and uh you know so it just the steering weight is unnecessarily heavy I haven’t
Encountered steering this heavy in a crossover like this um since the Mazda in particular the cx50 which had really heavy steering for some bizarre reason um this is pretty close to that but this honestly the Mazda had better feel because even though it was Heavy it was
Really nice feeling this is heavy and also a little rubbery at times and just doesn’t feel super good to use to be totally honest I mean again it’s fine but it’s just like this is a plug-in hybrid crossover I don’t know why they thought they needed heavy steering you
Don’t need it to feel sporty or anything so why they decided to do this just to give owners an extra arm workout just seems kind of confusing to me but um you know other things though visibility is pretty good here you know you have nice thin a pillars great view forward view
Out of the sides is good view out of the back is great and so you know for all those reasons it’s you know going to be totally fine as far as you know just driving around it also has the auto park 2.0 is available here and this premium
Package which will help you to do the parallel parking automatically you have 360 cameras all that kind of stuff to help you out but I’m going to go ahead and go into the drive modes here which unfortunately again are in the screen I’m going to put into the sport mode now
I did run the engine before I started filming this video so the engine is in stone cold so we’re in sport mode um and uh let’s turn down onto this Back Road here it already just kicked on the engine here and let’s see how it accelerates here we go CBT
Transmission doing its thing uh just kind of you know holding it close to that red line there and then that’s basically it I mean so as far as the performance here now this is going to be one of the slowest plug-in hybrids in this segment I think it is the slowest
Actually uh just has 210 horsepower total which is strangely 11 less horsepower than the pre-re fresh version I’m not sure why it got a power downgrade um but you know so 210 horsepower combined it’s all done thanks to a 2 1/2 L aisin cycle naturally aspirated 4-cylinder engine uh that
Alone does 163 horsepower and then there’s two e Motors that help you out up front there as well but it’s only front-wheel drive here in the Escape plugin hypers there’s no all-wheel drive option strangely and I believe it’s the only front-wheel drive uh compact plug-in hybrid here as far as SUVs goes
Uh which is also strange since all the other competitors offer all drive that really puts the Escape at a disadvantage if you live in a place that ever sees any kind of weather but uh yeah I think car driver got like a 7.7 seconds there
To 60 time so you know it’s okay it’s fine and with the electric punch you know you do get a nice little jolt you know but you still got to wait for the engine to like do a downshift which is kind of strange considering it is like a
Variable transmission uh but it does actually feel like it has some pretty defined uh you know shifting going on so the bottom line is just know that this is going to be less power than all the competitors offer if having the most power doesn’t matter to you and not
Having all drive as a matter to you this is still a totally fine powertrain I think it’ll be great you know for the average driver that’s just looking for something that’s economical and still has you know a decent amount of punch for commuting but anyway coming up some
Corners here that I always take and let’s see how the Escape plug-in hybrid handle so we’re just on 225 wide mland Primacy all season tires so nothing sporty um and you know there’s a little bit of lean here honestly I think body roll is fairly well controlled though in
My opinion and uh you know it’s not too bad the steering I don’t know surprisingly it didn’t get any heav you’re in sport mode usually sport mode does make steering heavier in most vehicles but in this not the case um so you know I don’t really know I guess
Sport mode just makes it a little bit more aggressive with the throtle response maybe but outside of that um you know this feels pretty normal but I do have to say that you know compared to again most of the competitors I’d say that this doesn’t handle any better than
Any of the others and I think that my favorite handling one in the segment the MIT Mishi Outlander PL and hybrid handles much better than this does it is so much more Dynamic it was a blast to take around Corners this will do it um you know but it’s certainly not as
Enjoyable as it is in the Outlander and honestly I think even the rafro prime and the Tucson Sports I think they all kind of are a little lighter on their feet than this feels again I think a lot of this is just the way again they
Ramped up this steering weight and uh so I don’t don’t love the way it handles but to me it’s totally fine some others have said is like really feels heavy and like like it’s not great I don’t think it’s quite as bad as some of the reviews
Have made it out to be to be honest but uh certainly again still as comfortably probably bought botom of the pack as far as plugin hybrid compact crossovers goes also we’re on this road that sometimes generates some more road noise here and uh you know road noise is I’d say a
Little bit higher than some of the competitors as well but I’d say it’s you know again pretty average for a vehicle in this segment so you know no big issues there um but the other thing that’s important to mention of course about a plug-in hybrid is the battery
Pack and all that so it runs a 10.7 KW hour battery so that’s a little bit smaller than most of the other competitors but it still does a pretty impressive 37 M of electric range is what it’s rting at and um so I mean obviously only driving two front wheels
Instead of all four wheels is how it’s able to you know use less battery and yet have really impressive range that’s right up there not quite best inclass but you know pretty close with um you know only the rout 4 Prime I think doing more at you know 42 mies of range at
That one but um you know this is going to be more than like the Tucson and the Sportage which I believe do about 33 Mi of electric range so I’m driving this vehicle in the middle of winter though where obviously batteries don’t perform as well and you got to run the Heat and
All that kind of stuff so uh there just you know some downgrades to electric vehicle performance in cold weather and so my observed range I did do a full charge and I got about 28 miles of electric range now a lot of that was primarily highway driving maybe I would
Have got a little bit more if I was doing some you know stop and go kind of stuff in the electric mode but it was primarily highway just straight you know cruise control cruising but even still I’d say that you know yes you lose out
On you know 9 M of range here in the winter but that’s not too bad especially considering it’s a plug-in hybrid the beauty of plug-in hybrids is you you have the gas engine to back you up uh but just know that you know you’re not going to hit that you know range rating
Um you know if you’re doing any kind of higher speed driving or when you’re driving or both and it’s also really fast to the recharge since it’s you know a smaller battery as well just on a regular 110 plug it into a normal wall
Outlet um like I do at my house um you know it was able to recharge itself I believe in it was like maybe 8 hours or so it was really quick um considering you know it’s not a fast charger by any means but um you know it’s great that it
Does that there’s no fast charging capabilities or anything with this which I makes sense anyway cuz it’d be a waste to include you know cuz it’s such a small battery but I’m going to go ahead and put it back into the normal mode here and I’m going to go to the strictly
Electric driving mode once again um because I want to show how this vehicle performs whenever you are just in the electric mode cuz obviously you know you don’t have a ton of power from these electric motors and so let’s see um also there’s one other funny thing it there’s
A weird little popup that happens on the gauge cluster here I’ll get to in a second but we’re merging onto the highway here so I going to talk about this first so let’s turn down down here and we do have some traffic and stuff so
This isn’t a 0 to 60 run by any means but so interestingly like whenever you go foot to the floor it won’t turn on the gas engine but it does have a popup in the gauge cluster here that says enable engine for additional performance or whatever you have to hit okay and
Then it will give it permission to turn on the gas engine otherwise it will not um which is kind of strange cuz you know again it’s not a ton of power and you know it just seems like it would be something that most vehicles that this competes with have like a
Kickdown switch the bottom of the gas pedal where it’s like okay well now you want everything and it just takes that M matters into its own hands which I think is the better way to do it so you don’t have to have an extra step if you’re in
An emergency situation where you need to get out of someone’s way or something you know it’s kind of strange to make people confirm it with an okay on the steering wheel um but anyway you know so I mean but I’m doing all the electric driving here I got up to speed just fine
I’m you know cruising here at highway speeds no problem whatsoever and it’s so I mean it’s a very capable uh you know electric mode I was doing you know higher highway speeds uh earlier this week in this no problem and uh you know it was doing a really good
Job so it is like you know fully capable of being a complete EV for those first 37 odd miles um if you are able to plug it in every night so it is you know an impressive amount of punch now it’s not going to be super impressive you know I
Think the R 4 Prime is still my favorite as far as the most punch with its electric motors but I’d say that even all the others that I’ve experienced um I don’t believe there’s an e only mode in the Tucson and the Sportage but whenever I did that in the Outlander um
It was also you know pretty Punchy in that but the graap 4 Prime I mean you can do full-blown like 0 to 60s in that and I mean It’ll like still be really Punchy in that electric mode so that’s still definitely the best one uh if you
Want to do the best electric driving possible but um you this is doing totally fine and we can also while we’re out here uh try out the uh adaptive cruise control system it also does have a lane keep assist system and basically all the safety stuff in this vehicle
Comes standard uh because you’re getting the plug-in hybrid version which again starts very high and the uh you know Escape hierarchy but as far as other safety Tech goes you know you have everything as standard so blind spot monitoring rear cross traffic alert automatic emergency braking both for the
Front and for the rear uh all that stuff is standard you have the Lan assist is standard the park assist 2.0 is one of the few things you have to pay extra for with this giant premium package it’s $4,500 that gives you um the head- up display the leather the better stereo
And a couple other things um you know so but that’s it otherwise all the other safety stuff is standard here on the plugin hybrids which certainly keeps it nice and simple and it’s great that they include all that stuff as standard but uh you know I actually tested out the
Lan keep assist system here on some Winder highways earlier this week and uh it actually does a really good job fors Lane keep assist system is really good it’s unfortunate we don’t have the blue crew system available like you get in the F-150 and the Macky but uh you know
It still is nice to have a really good Lane keep assist system and it’s been giving me confidence steering assist and also having the help display is really nice too cuz it will you know let you know when it’s keeping track of the road lines and when it isn’t it does a pretty
Good job of alerting you cuz there were I think one or two times where it did lose track of those lines on me but at least it kept me really well notified of that this has been trustworthy and uh been pretty good assistance but um otherwise you know just cruising on the
Highway here nice and quiet again in the electric mode here and uh speaking of electric mode too that is one thing so obviously the main thing if you’re getting a plug-in hybrid you want to plug it in every night to get the most efficiency and to you know make the most
Of your purchase um if you’re not going to do that you might as well just get a regular hybrid version and save yourself a bunch of money but um you know once you do deplete that battery since you know especially in the winter time here I was depleting it pretty quickly um you
Know whenever it does go into the gas mode though I’ve been so impressed with just how much driving I was doing in electric mode even with a completely dead battery obviously it will still keep enough charging the battery to still function as a hybrid still do that
Engine off you know cruising around at very low speeds no matter what but but you know it was just impressive that I’ve been driving this vehicle now 1135 miles uh you know a good amount of mileage here and it’s telling me that basically 70% of those miles have been
Electric um and so I as far as charge you know I got 28 miles on the first electric charge and then I plugged it in and got another 14 mil of charge uh but I’ve only used four of those miles um so far cuz it’s been you know again just
Regenerating a good bit there and having the engine in that sport mode kicking out the gas engine and not really using that battery that much um so basically just from my wall outlet I can attribute 32 of those miles to my own charging and the other you know almost 40 Mi of
Electric driving were just done in the hybrid mode the vehicle just intelligently you know regening the battery on its own with braking and you know doing what it needs to do to be as efficient as possible and so you know that’s uh really impressive to me now as
Far as MPGs goes I think this is rated at 101 mpge which still seems like kind of an irrelevant rating that doesn’t seem super helpful to be totally honest and you know your efficiency will come down to your driving style how often you’re able to charge it how much you
Drive it Beyond it’s rate in charge every day that’s comes down to your individual unique needs um so you know MPG ratings are going to just come down to you know again how much you’re actually using the gas engine but for whatever it’s worth just uh you know to
Give you an idea I guess here um with all that context in mind of how much I charged and how much I drove um I’ve been getting 48.8 MPG all combined so I think that’s obviously the gas engine working I think when the gas engine is working completely on its own I’ve been
Seeing something in the high 20s typically on average uh but you know then you factor in the electric driving and that boost that that average uh you know MPG up there to about 49 or so so I’d say this is just a very economical vehicle and especially if you’re someone
Who doesn’t see weather if you live in you know one of those Sunny States and you just want a great plug-in hybrid I think that there is a case to be made for the Escape um and you know I think there’s a place for front-wheel drive you know plugin hybrid you know
Crossovers I think it’s a great idea and if you could boost that electric range I’m surprised that the other manufacturers haven’t offered something like this as well a couple other quick observations about the Escape as well that I noticed during my week of living with it here uh the first is that there
Is this weird like Auto slowdown thing where it tries to intelligently regen on downhill sections um and it’s kind of strange it’ll ease up as the you know decline is uh decreasing and you know turning to flat land again so it is actively trying to manage that but it
Just means that uh unless you’re okay going slow downhills um you know it’s just going to be kind of unnatural feeling and I had to keep overriding with a gas pedal to be like no I don’t want to like slow down to the speed limit whenever I’m going down hill like
I want to you know do a few over or whatever and it just you know was always trying to slow me down a little bit and I couldn’t find any way to disable that in the screen so that’s kind of something if that annoys you definitely
Check that out on the test drive if that annoys you just keep in mind that I don’t think there’s any way to get rid of that and it is something that after a while can’t get on your nerves a couple other little minor things there’s a
Rattle by the back door in this one this one’s got about 10,000 Mi on it there’s a rattle by the back door not sure if that’s just this vehicle or what but make sure that if you’re buying one of these that it’s rattle-free um and then the other things to mention there’s two
Funny little things the first is that this heated steering wheel it gets hot super fast which is great if you’re you know winter time driving you’re like oh man I’m you know really loving the fact that my hands get heated up really nice and fast the downside is that it doesn’t
Stop heating up basically and so you’ll have the heated steering wheel on and uh it’ll you know get nice and toasty but then there’s been sometimes where it like gets scalding hot like so much that I have to like turn it off and then my
Hands get cold and then I got to turn it back on I first world problems I know but it’s like I think this is the hottest hot heated steering wheel that I’ve ever experienced where like I almost like I couldn’t touch it it got so hot after a while and there should be
Some kind of temperature limiter to be like hey maybe we should like turn down the heating here so this steering wheel doesn’t like combust on its own it’s just kind of strange like it got so hot um the other strange thing is that this infotainment system I don’t know if it’s
A lag in the system or what but every time I was listening to music you know most cars uh either the music turns off when you turn off the ignition or the music turns off when you open the door but in this vehicle uh I you know was
Parked and then I would open up the door and it would keep playing my music for like a solid like 10 seconds before it would finally turn off so what it meant was that you know sometimes I like listening to music you know kind of
Loudly and I would like hop out of this vehicle and be like with the loud music and I’m like oh man I got like remember to pause the music because I’m like opening my door and everyone’s like hearing my music playing as I’m getting out of the vehicle and it’s the first
Vehicle I’ve ever had where it’s like continuing to play music as I’m leaving the vehicle so that was kind of strange not sure you know why it did that but I just had to remember to be like oh wait I parked the vehicle I better make sure
I pause my music or turn it off you know before I get out otherwise it’s going to be just uh you know boom boxing for everyone around me for the next 10 seconds when I get out of the vehicle so that was kind of strange as well but uh
You know just minor little nuisances nothing that’s really a deal breaker in my opinion but just strange things I don’t have to put up with in any other competitors but um you know the really tough thing about the escape and really the last thing to mention is the pricing
And how this compares the competition and so as far as the pricing goes that’s the biggest problem with the escape and uh so now this is a 2023 model year the window sticker says it’s about 47,1 $5 as tested now for 2024 for some unexplicable reason since there’s no
Improvements for 2024 um it got a price increase of about almost $2,500 so this one now if you’re getting a 2024 mod year is going to cost you just under $50,000 it’s like 49730 or something and that price makes it really tough uh because you have the plug-in hybrid
Tucson from Hyundai and the Sportage is very similar same vehicle underneath pretty much both of those are like 4 $65,000 roughly and they have again a few miles less range but you have more power you have all wheel drive and you know it’s just a there you get more you
Know aside from the screen being slightly smaller in those but not by much especially in the Sportage it’s a 12-in screen so you’re down an inch no one’s going to really care I think honestly um and so you know it just that’s really the the toughest
Competitor there is that now I will say you know as far as reliability goes you know Ford is probably in my mind at least right behind Toyota as far as their hybrid plug and hybrid uh you know reliability because I think you know the hybrid system is the same basic hybrid
System they’ve used in The Escape hybrids for years that have been used as taxis and you know all kinds of cities all over the country and they run for hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles pretty much without issue from what I’ve seen at least and so I’m by no
Means an expert on hybrid uh Escape reliability but it just seems like you know these things really hold up well to lots of mileage lots of abuse um and so you know I mean the others are I’m sure going to be pretty reliable as well but
At least one thing with the Hyundai and the KY is they do run a turbocharged four-cylinder engine instead a little bit more extra complication compared to the simpler naturally aspirated 4cylinder here in this and that’s also you know Mitsubishi and Toyota elect to use a naturally aspirated 4-cylinder as
Well and I think that you know those will probably be slightly more reliable as a result um and so that’s the only thing I will say about you know those two but otherwise you know the other things to mention is you know for only about $600 more expensive you can get
The mpishi Outlander plug-in hybrid which is my favorite handling one of the bunch is the second most powerful one of the bunch so plush on the inside really nice materials everywhere you look and touch in the Outlander a little bit more space it even has a third row basically
A jump seat but you know you have that extra capability it’s a little bit of a larger vehicle it’s a little more distinctive looking which I mean I guess is subjective so some people might not love that some people might like it though but I think you know it’s it’s
Just another one that’s for $600 more expensive to have all-wheel drive and you know all that extra all those extra enhancements it’s probably going to make the Outlander a better buy as well in my opinion um now the RF 4 Prime is still I think my favorite just again because it
Has the most punch um and you have that famous Toyota reliability in that one but the problem is RA 4 primes are still really hard to find and they are a few thousand more expensive now with those with the fil premium package that those have that’s comparable to this you know
Being in the low to mid-50s now so you know that is the one that I guess is easier to kind of discount just because again it’s so hard to find them as as far as the know inventory that is one of the thing the inventory situation for
These is you know pretty similar like the Hyundai and the Kia uh but still not as plentiful as The Outlander either there seems to be more Outlander plugin hybrids out there than basically all the other competitors so it’ be easier to hunt those down now you know your
Individual deals as far as incentives for pluging hybrids in your state and as far as what kind of deal you’re able to get at the dealership and all that you know is how you know pricing will will vary so you know I can only compare msrps cuz it’s impossible to say what
Everyone’s deal is going to be uh but I would just say that you know um this might not have as many deals as the Mitsubishi it seems like they’re a little bit more aggressive with their incentivizing and stuff so uh you know again pricing is going to be relative
But it just seems like this is basically the same price as the all W Drive nicer competitors um while not giving you anything more and so that’s really the biggest problem you know I think if this vehicle was priced appropriately I think that it would make a lot of sense and
Especially again if you live in a place where you don’t need all wheeel Drive I think this is a great little vehicle on its own and yes it’s not perfect it certainly has a few shortcomings like I mentioned but you know I think that if this were five grand cheaper then this
Could really be an interesting alternative but as it is you know I mean maybe some people can get five grand off and then that can make this an interesting alternative but as it is right now again at that MSRP price that I have to judge it at it just doesn’t
Make sense in the context of its competition and so unless you can find a huge discount on one of these to you know make it impressive and you know undercut the rest with the pricing otherwise I just think the Escape is just Dead on Arrival unfortunately you know for this plug-in hybrid version
Even though you know again it has some redeeming qualities um but anyway so that’s all of my thoughts here on the Escape plug-in hybrid let me know your thoughts on it in the comments below huge thanks to Ford for providing me here with this Escape plug and hybrid to
Review for you guys today and yeah thank you all very much for watching and I’ll see you on the next one take care
I spend a week with the 2023 Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid to see what it’s like to live with. And while it certainly has some pros and cons, overall it’s let down by high pricing compared to its plug-in hybrid competitors that all give you more for the same or less money. What do you think about the plug in hybrid Escape? Thanks to Ford for providing this vehicle to review.
0:00 Exterior
1:23 Interior
5:21 Initial impressions
8:16 Acceleration
10:08 Handling and ride
11:45 Battery info
13:31 Highway driving and safety tech
17:19 Efficiency
20:08 Other thoughts after a week
23:08 Pricing and competitor comparisons
27:19 Final thoughts
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