- Ford has released pricing for the new Escape compact SUV, which has been redesigned for 2020.
- The base S model starts at $25,980, while a fully loaded Escape Titanium can surpass $40,000 with options.
- Ford says the Escape and Escape hybrid models will go on sale this fall, with the plug-in hybrid arriving next spring.
The new 2020 Ford Escape isn't scheduled to go on sale for a few more months, but we now know how much it will cost. It mostly holds the line on price compared with its predecessor, with just a slight uptick of a few hundred dollars for most versions of the redesigned compact crossover. The trim levels and their prices are as follows:
- Escape S, $25,980
- Escape SE, $28,190
- Escape SE Sport (hybrid), $29,530
- Escape SEL, $30,350
- Escape Titanium (hybrid), $34,495
- Escape Titanium, $37,780
The Escape S serves as the base model and starts at $25,980, $780 more than the previous Escape's starting price despite newly standard features such as a suite of driver-assist features including blind-spot monitoring and forward collision warning. The $28,190 SE model adds an 8.0-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and the $30,350 SEL models add more features. These models all come standard with front-wheel drive, an eight-speed automatic, and a turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine making 180 horsepower.
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All-wheel drive is a $1500 option and, on the SEL trim, choosing AWD opens up the option for a more powerful turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine with 250 horsepower, for $2285. The top-of-the-line Escape Titanium starts at $37,780 and comes only with all-wheel-drive and the 2.0-liter engine. Adding options to the Escape Titanium can push its price past $40,000.
Returning to the lineup is an Escape hybrid model, which comes in two trims: the $29,530 SE Sport and the $34,495 Titanium. Both offer front-wheel drive as standard and all-wheel drive as either a $1320 or a $1500 option. We don't have official EPA fuel-economy estimates for the Escape hybrid yet but we expect it to get up to around 38 mpg combined. A plug-in hybrid model with a claimed 30 miles of all-electric driving range arrives next year, but pricing hasn't been released for that version yet.
Despite being raised on a steady diet of base-model Hondas and Toyotas—or perhaps because of it—Joey Capparella nonetheless cultivated an obsession for the automotive industry throughout his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. He found a way to write about cars for the school newspaper during his college years at Rice University, which eventually led him to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for his first professional auto-writing gig at Automobile Magazine. He has been part of the Car and Driver team since 2016 and now lives in New York City.
