2017 Ford Escape SE Review

The Escape SE is appropriate for…

Drivers who favor the aroma of adventurous achievement over the boilerplate of ancestors values. It’s the best buy in one of America’s a lot of accepted compact-crossover lineups. Like all ’17 Escapes, the SE has active styling, upgraded features, and new engines. Advantage it with all-wheel drive and one of the liveliest turbocharged four-cylinders in the chic and you’ve got a stylishly quick little agent that lists for beneath $30,000 – afore abounding discounts.

Pros include…

The a lot of cogent revisions back this Escape bearing went on auction for model-year 2013. Administration updates strengthen the ancestors affinity to Ford’s newest Edge midsize crossover. A revamped centermost animate expands accumulator amplitude and replaces the parking-brake batten with a avant-garde electric button. Expect to see lots of SEs with the new black-trimmed Sport Appearance Package. Escape’s German-bred alley amenities abide complete and now brace with added acknowledging accepted and alternative engines.

Cons include…

Stingy amplitude for adult-length legs in the rear seat, authoritative it beneath ill-fitted to ancestors assignment than duller-driving but roomier rivals such as the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, and Nissan Rogue. Cargo aggregate is middling, and so are assurance ratings. Escape ante 4 stars of the best 5 in government blast tests. Adaptive cruise ascendancy and pre-collision braking are anew available, but Ford banned them to Escape’s top-line Titanium trim. Even then, the system’s adeptness to apathetic – but not stop — the Escape to abate a aboveboard blow makes it disqualified for the top assurance appraisement from the affecting Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

It costs…

Including Ford’s $895 destination fee, the SE is priced from $25,995 with front-wheel drive and from $27,745 with all-wheel drive (AWD). The SE is in the average of the Escape line, aloft the entry-level S model, which starts at $24,495 and is accessible alone with front-wheel drive, and beneath the top-trim Titanium, priced from $29,995 with front-drive, $31,745 with AWD.
The ’17 SE comes with a 179-horsepower 1.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, which replaces a trouble-prone 1.6-liter turbo four. Like all Escapes, it has a six-speed automated transmission. Other accepted appearance cover a ability driver’s seat, dual-zone automated altitude control, digital radio, and – complimenting its adventurous attributes – steering-wheel paddle shifters.

The best options are…

The re-engineered 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine. A $1,205 option, its 245 application wrings the a lot of from the SE’s achievement DNA. You’ll appetite its added beef and refinement, and be blessed you’ve acclimatized it to the traction-enhancing virtues of AWD. Leather upholstery bundles with a ability commuter bench and acrimonious foreground seats and mirrors for $1,595. A ability liftgate (without hands-free opening) is $495.
The $1,395 Technology Package includes blind-spot warning, rear cross-traffic and rear-obstacle detection, accessible one-touch active ancillary windows, roof-rack ancillary rails, LED daytime active lights, and Ford’s advantageous Sync Connect hands-free infotainment interface with an 8-inch dashboard screen. The Tech Package aswell includes FordPass to start, lock, alleviate and locate your Escape via smartphone app. It aswell makes the SE acceptable for imbedded navigation, a $795 advantage that sustains GPS mapping in the absence of a corpuscle signal.