2013 Ford Escape consumer reviews

i luv it is the best i will never buy another vehicle again i am with team ford, i had an accident with it and it saved my family's life

The car is a very comfortable car to drive long distances. Just returned from a trip to the east coast and was very saftisfied with the comfort and performance. Gas mileage is a plus. It is also a very attractive automobile in and Out.

Ford really hit a home run this time. I have owned Ford SUV's ever since 1997 and this is the snappiest,yet. It reminds me of a small sports car I had back in 1991,which got me started in all-wheel drive vehicles, with it's responsivenes, and handeling.

This is my second ford and the best suv I had ! I have an sel model escape 2.0 ecoboost 4wd let me tell you it has power I live in the mountains of pa and it handles them with ease! more power than the competition even those with 6 cyl it shifts nice and smooth not like when the focus came out and they had to update it . The escape is more refined full heated leather seats panoramic sun roof I also have my ford touch with the premium sound system not Sony and added a jbl subwoofer and it rocks no freezing or resetting here!!!!!!! soft touch materials throughout not cheap plastics like some other competitor's. overall it built and feels really solid you can tell when you close the doors it doesn't sound hollow or like a piece of tin.. the handling is nice and tight with the electric assist steering . I would definitely recommend this and any ford vehicle to friends and family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there the only ones not to take bailout from the tax payers !!! buy American that is true American!!

Love the car and so do the boys. It has a great sound system and corners super. We seem to be having issues with the Tranny. It is not always in the gear we choose.

Very handy. nimble and easy to drive. Good gas mileage. The interior is very user friendly with the sound system and Sync hands off phone easily accessible. The transmission is suspect. A little noisy and requires you to be overly exact when you put it in drive. We shopped around and for the money the Escape was hard to beat. Other than questions regarding the transmission, we are delighted.

This is my first Ford. I bought a cross over vehicle because I wanted something that had fold down rear seats, was comfortable, had at least 200 horsepower, plenty of storage space behind the driver seat, good handling, and at least 22 mpg in the city. I ended up with most of those requirements and got a few things I didn?t expect. Having driven manual transmissions and 6 cylinder vehicles for many, many years I was hesitant about dealing with turbo lag in many of today's 4 cylinder offerings. I test drove quite a few vehicles and most had a significant lag, to the point that driving them was unpleasant. But consider my perspective, having been very used to a V6 and manual trans. Ford's 2.0 liter ecoboost gave me the best performance and minimal lag. After 5800 miles the best average combined mileage I can get is 22.4 mpg, short of Ford's claimed 24-25 mpg combined. The interior with the MyFordTouch looks nice and is comfortable. Materials are mid-grade. Visibility is very good. What I miss is storage space for keys, papers, phone, coins, CDs, etc. The small and deep center console is not convenient for finding what you need and there is no option for spare change or tokens. My Escape has the MyFordTouch system, navigation, blind spot warning, cross traffic warning, parking obstacle warning, and power lift gate. My android phone syncs easily, iphones do as well. The Sony stereo sounds good. That's where the good news stops. The Nav system and radio have frequent malfunctions, which two dealers have not been able to solve because these are software problems, not hardware. On any given day I am not sure if the radio or navigation system will work or fail. Sometimes the radio comes on by itself, sometimes it can't be turned off, sometimes radio station presets don't show up, sometimes I can't change the station. The navigation system will work for a few days or a week and then decides to not let me select my pre-programmed destinations or enter addresses. At times it has frozen completely or has shows my location as flying over buildings. The only 'fix' dealers offer, which they acknowledged is only temporary, is a master reset. This can take an hour and wipes out your settings. The blind spot warning system is useless in any traffic, even when on the highway, as it is constantly in alarm. Good thing the alarm is nothing more than a small orange light in the side view mirrors and it is silent. Unfortunately other alarms are not silent. The cross traffic warning system is extremely sensitive. When parallel parking or backing out of a space in a busy lot the alarm will be continuous. And it is loud and annoying. The owner's manual states it can pick up traffic up to 45 feet away. I think its further than that. There is a way to turn off this annoying feature, that at times yields false alarms, but it is buried in a sub-menu that you have to scroll through on the dashboard. The easy solution would be to turn it off right? Ford thought of that and designed it so it resets to 'On' every time you start the car. The same goes for the parking obstacle warning. It is very sensitive and will pick up objects three feet to the side, front, rear, and even under the bumper. It will alarm every time I pull out of my driveway because of the elevation change between my driveway and the street. Or it alarms because of the street sign on the sidewalk 3 feet to the right of the bumper or because it thinks I got too close the car in front of me in traffic as I slowly creep forward. So Ford placed an 'Off' button on the center console, which is much easier to get to than a submenu on the dash. But guess what? This feature resets to 'On' every time you start the car. At least the stereo sounds good. Until I plugged in my ipod and got lectured by "the voice" about safe driving and using voice commands before it would allow me to do anything more. Okay, I heard the safe driving lecture, so from now on I can just plug in and turn up the music to drown out the alarms. Right? No such luck, EVERY time I plug in an ipod or mp3 play I get lectured. Foiled by Ford again.

Just got it three weeks ago she loves it sync system is way cool and the foot liftgate thing is the voplest thing ever

The Escape that I drove was an AWD SE model with the Frost Blue paint and is equipped with the 1.6L engine. I left very impressed! Things I like: The Intelligent AWD is pretty neat, a screen over the gauges will tell you what wheels are getting the power. That screen over the gauges will also tell the driver what their average FE is (I got 26 MPG on my test), how far the driver can go on their current amount of gas, and the usual stuff like a trip calculator, compass, thermometer... You can also take traction control off, but I didn't do it. I really liked the steering wheel controls! It was nice to be able to control the radio without taking your hands off the wheel. The 4" screen on the center dash mostly deals with SYNC functions, CD, radio, and Sirius Radio (a 6-month subscription is complementary!). I didn't try to SYNC my phone, but I did hook my iPod up to the car. While I thought the feature was neat, I just don't have enough songs to really make it worthwhile. Up front, materials are absolutely top notch. You could just feel how dense the plastics were. The door handles and a few other bits are made of actual metal. The back seats are where the Escape really shines! No matter what setting the front seats were at, I always had enough legroom to make travel comfortable. When driving, you can tell that the vehicle was engineered in Germany. The ride is very firm (it makes the Escape feel like its riding higher). Even though the ride was firm, the Escape still managed to absorb bumps in the road to a good degree. The one I drove returned a tidy 26 MPG. Handling is very tight and almost sporty. Just some other cool things that I noted: The headlights are the best that i've ever seen on a passenger vehicle. When I was on a country road, I thought that i'd try the high beams. Only if the Earth hurls towards the sun will that road be brighter! Not only was the light projected forward (and pretty far I might add), but towards the sides of the road (a very nice feature up North) and upward. I was very impressed I also liked the "door ajar" message on the screen when a door was opened. The glove-box also thoroughly amazed me. It not only has two deep shelves in it, but it has a little light that beams in there so you can see what you're grabbing. Folding down the second row is also a very easy process. Just pull the lever and down they go. The Escape sits very low to the ground, which many people with families and elderly parents (or elderly themselves) would enjoy. With that, off-road capability probably isn't as great. Things that could be improved: The biggest thing that could be improved on in the Escape is the cargo space. This could go for every compact CUV, or just the Escape, I haven't really been around too many compact CUVs to get a good sense of how big the cargo area is in comparison. It just seemed small to me. A plastic storage tub takes away about half of the cargo area when the second row is still erect. That may not be a problem if you were driving by yourself or with another passenger, but that might be a little tight for a family with luggage. There was a little pocket back there for small items that I liked, it was deep enough to throw a few bungee cords in there. And even though the Escape kind of sloped down in the back, the liftgate still opens up high enough to comfortably walk under it. With that said, it and all of the other doors close with a reassuring "thud". Another gripe about something being small: the console is just about useless. Another thing that could and should be improved on is the dashboard design. The vents on the far sides are a weird collection of geometric shapes that all face a different direction. All of the buttons on the main portion of the dash serve their function well (and are ergonomically friendly), but the design is just strange. The driver almost has to pre-set their Sirius stations, because finding them while driving is no easy task. I'd rather just stop at one, and be able to go scroll through all 150 until I found something that tickles my fancy. Overall, it's a great vehicle! Ford outdid themselves on this one. Add a little more cargo room and power, you would have the perfect compact crossover!

HAVING RECENTLY PURCHASED A 2013 FORD ESCAPE ALL I CAN SAY IS THE WIFE AND I LOVE IT. GRANTED WE HAVE BEEN DRIVING A 2002 GRAND CHEEROKEE AND A OLD FORD BASIC RANGE THIS ESCAPE IS LIKE RIDING ON A CLOUD. I HAD THE OPTION OF BUYING THE ECO BOOST BUT I HAVE BEEN VERY WARY OF ANY TURBO REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE MARKETING GURU WANT TO CALL IT BECASUE TURBOS IN THE PAST WERE A NIGHTMARE FOR THE OWNER. I WANTED THE 2.5 4 CYL MOTOR THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE AND FOR GOING TO WORK THIS ENGINE DOES A NICE JOB WITH THE 2013 ESCAPE TO SUM IT UP I AM VERY HAPYY WITH MY PURCHASE OF THE 2013 FORD ESCAPE