In addition to little ole' engine problems like catastrophic failure, the Escape Hybrid shares many of the same problems with its gas-guzzling counterpart such as power assisted steering failures and swollen lug nuts.
The Escape Hybrid is alsi infamous for the engine shutting off while stopping.
The Escape Hybrid has 2 generations. Generations are groups of model years where the vehicles are continuously produced, using similar engineering and shared features. Generation data isn't always cut-and-dry and is often different for different countries. When in doubt, we use North American generation data.
This generation ranks 91st in reliability out of 102 generations.
This generation ranks 98th in reliability out of 102 generations.
A list of seven hybrids to avoid buying if you were in the market for a used car. They aren’t necessarily hybrids from the 2016 model year (although they can be), but just the cars that were the biggest pains to own this year.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes your Ford or Mercury Hybrid SUV just needs a timeout? You know – a period of time to shut down, cool off and reset? Hmm, sounds like my toddler actually. Unlike my toddler, however, these timeouts are actually happening to owners in the form of a stalling engine and sometimes in very dangerous situations!
Now Ford says they know what the problem is and are issuing a recall to fix it.
