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    Spying: 2020 Ford Escape Sees the Light

      Why hello next-generation Ford Escape

    The Escape is an important model for Ford. Last year, the company moved 308,296 Escapes off dealer lots. But with the announcement last week that Ford will be focusing more on trucks and utility models in the coming years, the Escape will be playing a bigger role.

    Car and Driver obtained the first spy shots of the next-generation Escape, expected sometime next year as 2020 model. Due to the extensive use of camouflage on the mule, we can't tell much about the design. We're guessing the front end might look similar to the EcoSport partly due to the flat shape. The lone shot of the interior reveals an interior layout similar to the EcoSport and Focus with the infotainment system sitting on top of the center stack.

    The next-generation Escape is expected to move from the C1 platform to yet, an unnamed global platform that underpins the next Focus. This will address two shortcomings of the current Escape - poor crash test scores and not being able to fit a hybrid/plug-in hybrid powertrain.

    Powertrains are expected to include the 1.5 and 2.0 EcoBoost four-cylinders, and a hybrid powertrain. We wouldn't be surprised if a plug-in is also available.

    Source: Car and Driver

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    it looks honestly like the new one will be smaller and clipped at the knees just like they did with the Equinox.  Might not be a bad idea to look hard at a 2019 and all the discounts that go with it.

     

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    What I'm seeing is a larger scale version of the Focus Active, with its softer, lozenge look.  I guess they went that way to appease angry Ford sedan buyers, and they have room to feminize it since the Bronco and Maverick are coming to bring all the boys to the yard.

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    1 hour ago, ocnblu said:

    What I'm seeing is a larger scale version of the Focus Active, with its softer, lozenge look.  I guess they went that way to appease angry Ford sedan buyers, and they have room to feminize it since the Bronco and Maverick are coming to bring all the boys to the yard.

    Name me at least three masculine looking CUVs that anyone here can buy right now.  Usually, it is the pickups and BOF SUVs that look the most masculine.

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    12 hours ago, riviera74 said:

    Name me at least three masculine looking CUVs that anyone here can buy right now.  Usually, it is the pickups and BOF SUVs that look the most masculine.

    Grand Cherokee is about all i can think of and that's still BOF, right? So that doesn't even fit the criteria.. Sooooo... Nothing. 

    There are some that I like but they're not masculine. 

    Cherokee Trailhawk might be the closest. 

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    52 minutes ago, frogger said:

    Grand Cherokee has always been unibody IIRC.

     

     

    Time to Google! 

    This is what Wiki got me:

    "The Jeep Grand Cherokee is a range of Mid-size SUVs produced by the American manufacturer Jeep. While some other SUVs were manufactured with body-on-frame construction, the Jeep Grand Cherokee has always used a unibody chassis."

    This is what Wiki got me:

    "The Jeep Grand Cherokee is a range of Mid-size SUVs produced by the American manufacturer Jeep. While some other SUVs were manufactured with body-on-frame construction, the Jeep Grand Cherokee has always used a unibody chassis."

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    15 hours ago, riviera74 said:

    Name me at least three masculine looking CUVs that anyone here can buy right now.  Usually, it is the pickups and BOF SUVs that look the most masculine.

    Grand Cherokee, Dodge Durango, Land Rover Range Rover. 

    I think the current Explorer looks pretty masculine too.

    2018-Ford-Explorer-front-three-quarter.jpg

    Certainly no less so than a Tahoe or Expedition.

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