There is no legal speed in the USA at which I couldn't just step on the gas without being kicked in the back by nearly instantaneous acceleration, sometimes with wheel spin. Coupled with the Intelligent 4WD system that we need here with all the hills and cold winters, it's a beast. So it's Titanium trim level with the beefiest engine available, a turbo charged 2.0L EcoBoost with 240 hp and 270 lb/ft torque. Maybe I went a bit overboard with the specs, but I wanted a car that I can keep forever. On January 30th of 2016, Nyunyu was born. And I bet he wanted this constant annoyance to be over anyway. Found one in Ford's dealer system that was close enough, Mike had to do a swap with another dealership from another state to get it, but he's a nice guy. Ford already stopped manufacturing the now old car, and by talking to Mike it became obvious that it's gonna be hard to find a blue Escape with the packages I wanted. It's surely a fine car, but looks too much like the Edge and the Deep Impact Blue color isn't even an option anymore. In 2016 January the news broke about the 2017 Escape face lift, and I didn't like it too much. I had to be really annoying at times, but my wife is clearly an angel because she coped with it, and by 2015 she said alright, once we paid off the Focus, we can buy me the Blue Escape I want so much. Mike the dealer kept nudging me to just sign a contract and get one already. I always played with one at the Ford dealership, I even test-drove one later on. So I was just dreaming about it for quite some time, saving up for it, and in the meantime I bugged the heck out of my wife about what color I'd pick, what kind of tools and gadgets I'd carry in its obviously infinite trunk space and stuff like that. I really wanted one, but I didn't even have a driver's license at that point, and Leslie definitely didn't want us to deal with two car payments anyway. The same tech as in the Focus with the same interior, but in a slightly bigger package. I liked the boxy Escape from that era, then the revised version came out in 2013 and it was love at first sight. I've always been a big fan of the Ford Focus, we even got one for Leslie in 2012. ![]() Ford Escape 2016 Long-Term Review Aug⚑ Ford Escape
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