Some Good things mostly bad things
I bought this car new from a local Ford Dealer, and have driven it more or less daily since. It is basically a box and that is what I wanted. I've made several long trips to Colorado and North Carolina and the car mostly does what it was bought for, that is, to move me from one place to another. Ergonomically, it was designed by people who ride the bus to work. No one at Ford could have actually driven this thing during the development phase.
1. The LCDs are unreadable in the Florida bright sun.
2. The speedometer tach instruments were lifted from ab early Datsun, are readable but dated.
3. Te rear seats do not fold flat making the feature almost worthless.
4. The premium Infinity radio lacks an input for an mp3 player (these have been around since ~1995 you'd hope the 2005 Ford has heard of them. The Japanese carmakers did in the late 1990s
5. The radio display lights are dimmed so they are unreadable during the day when you have the headlights on.
6. The dampers on the rear door never assisted the lift of the door and failed just after the warranty.
7. The Escape is noisy. It is based on a truck platform. I guess Ford needed to remind you.
8. At around 140,000 miles one of the computers failed, this, in turn, caused the catalytic converter to fail. These cost several thousand dollars to make the car driveable. If I were I younger, I'd sent this to the junkyard and buy a Toyota. I've had three other cars ( 1 Chrysler, 2 GM) in my time with computers that were driven well over 100,000 miles and never had a computer failure.
I could go on.
Verified Owner
