Spying the Potential Changes to the Ford Escape

The announcement that Ford will reduce its lineup to SUVs, pickup trucks, and performance cars has brought the questions of how this brand plans to make these changes take place. Recently, the 2020 version of the Ford Escape was spied out on the roads testing out some of the features offered in this new model. This brought about the questions once again as to how this SUV, and others, will be offered to us in order to allow a complete lineup of vehicles that will make it possible for us to never miss the sedans and hatchbacks that will be gone.

With the thought in mind of offering the qualities we already enjoy in the sedans we drive from Ford, the new Ford Escape is rumored to be bringing in many of the same qualities as the 2019 Ford Focus. This means the Escape will use the new FWD platform and the same engines that are being offered in the Focus. We also expect to see the new Escape offered as a hybrid or EV model to give us the drive we want to enjoy on the road as the brand moves away from cars for good.

C-Max Gets the Axe

The heavily camouflaged model of the Ford Escape that showed up on the roads is a plug-in hybrid model. The camouflage is good enough to hide the details of this, but the fact that the Escape will offer a hybrid and the plug-in hybrid for the lineup means we’re likely to see the C-Max being axed from the lineup soon. This is one area the Escape will be able to take over the market from the C-Max which has been the hybrid version offered by Ford that we’ve admired for many years.
The engines we expect to see in the non-hybrid models of the 2020 Escape include the 1.5-liter three-cylinder turbocharged engine and the 2.0-liter four-cylinder turbocharged model. These two engines are both expected to make use of the nine-speed automatic transmission to give us the shifting we want and the amazing drive that will let us have a great time on the road. These two engines will allow the Escape to be the compact SUV that will offer us the drive we want and the efficiency we’re looking for in a vehicle without being a small hatchback model.

Ford Escape to Take On the Crossover Market

The 2020 version of the Ford Escape is expected to make its debut next year and be on sale in the third or fourth quarter of 2019. This change and the upgrades offered are only the beginning of the change away from sedan for the Ford brand. We’ll see how the rest of the SUV lineup takes the qualities from the hatchbacks and the sedans that we see on the road right now. If the changes continue to be as substantial as what we’re going to see in the Escape, Ford will be able to give us what we want and need with the new lineup offered.