Car Review - 2004 Ford Escape V6 Features & Specifications

2004 Ford Escape V6 - There are several ways of waking upward inwards the morning, from the unpleasant blare of an alert clock to the stimulating olfactory holding of breakfast cooking inwards the kitchen. A leisurely breakfast is all fine for the weekend, but for rush-hour workdays, a quicker solution is warranted. That's where java commonly comes in: 1 gulp together with when the caffeine warms upward the veins, hence likewise does the brain. Now what of us who are non partial to hot Java? We discovered something merely equally effective: seeing a vivid xanthous compact SUV parked inwards our garage did the trick.

The SUV inwards interrogation is the 2004 Ford Escape. How is it unlike from final year's? If the blazing paintwork doesn’t teach your attention, together with hence maybe 2 small-scale inscriptions the front end fenders will: V6. This agency that nether the stubby hood is non an anemic 2.0-liter but a full-strength 3.0, garnished amongst double overhead cams together with 24 valves. The Duratec engine is proficient for a strong 206 bhp together with 276 Nm, compared to the 2.0's 130 bhp/183 Nm.

Climb into the cabin together with fifty-fifty if y'all haven't driven an Escape before, you'll experience correct at home. That's because the leather seats are equally soft together with comfortable plenty to double equally living room furniture. They're American-sized, too, hence y'all won't experience shortchanged when it comes to spot width together with thigh support. Switches, gauges together with operating levers are all easily decipherable fifty-fifty if y'all allow the owner's manual assemble dust inwards the glovebox. A ability Luna roof, unique to the class, incorporates a current of air deflector to lessen the current of air dissonance together with turbulence when the drinking glass is retracted. Our favorite "barbecutie," Michelle Branch, tin breathe out of the Escape's 4 speakers all twenty-four hr menses long together with nevertheless audio quite proficient from the typically robust Ford audio system. She exclusively has 2 CDs out, hence in that location are 4 to a greater extent than slots to create total inwards the no-magazine dash-mounted changer.

The Escape exclusively seats five, but there's plenty of luggage room aft of the instant row. That row also folds nearly to the flooring inwards a 60/40 split. The swing-up tailgate amongst separately-opening drinking glass hatch makes an slow delineate of loading materials into the back, piece cubbyholes together with a cargo cyberspace assist buy the farm on them inwards place.

With that vivid xanthous slash of hood inwards front end of us, nosotros could hardly facial expression to burn downwards upward the large half dozen together with drive off through the weekday urban skirmishes. At starting fourth dimension nosotros noticed footling of the engine upgrade. Feather the throttle, together with the Escape accelerates amongst acceptable ability delivery, merely similar the 2.0. Then nosotros kept our optic on the tach; the engine was barely higher upward idle, shifting at 1600 to 1800 rpm. Start feeding the animal to a greater extent than fuel together with it begins to growl. A blip to 3000 rpm together with y'all tin travel out most traffic behind. Go all the way to redline together with y'all receive got 1 quick SUV. Factory information for the UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland Escape V6 posts the 0-100 km/h fourth dimension at 10.2 seconds. We somehow uncertainty that because it felt much quicker; we're guessing less than nine seconds on a proficient day. To overtake inwards the 2.0, you'd involve to practise at to the lowest degree 3 bodily parts: encephalon to calculate if there's plenty route space, together with if there's non together with y'all create upward one's heed to do hence anyway, your span of cojones. With the 3.0, it's much simpler: correct human foot volition suffice to squelch the Escape into whatsoever small-scale gap inwards traffic.

Repeated flexing of that human foot volition eventually exact a penalty, because liberate energy later on all cannot live on created from nothing. It was almost a certainty that the V6 volition gulp to a greater extent than gas than the inline-4. We registered 5.5 km/liter, less than the 2.0's 6.5 to vii km/liter. Loss of 1 to 1.5 km/liter but an upgrade to warp speed from impulse power? For us, that's an acceptable tradeoff. What's non is the V6 version's greatly reduced range. The fuel tank remains at 62 liters, which agency that it tin exclusively buy the farm nigh 275 km earlier the guess dips below one-fourth. After 2 days amongst the Escape, nosotros had to refill its tank. Three days later on that, fuel warning low-cal flashing, nosotros were dorsum at it again. With this vehicle, the fuel view volition shortly teach your best friend—and the way gas prices are going, your most accursed enemy equally well.

The number of gain aside, nearly all of what's proficient inwards the base of operations version has been retained. The supple front end together with bring upward independent suspension nevertheless provides an indulgent ride piece keeping the vehicle firmly planted on uneven surfaces. This automobile won't do a lot of mudplugging, but it volition remain moving fifty-fifty on oil soil together with gravel. Normally, the bring upward wheels select upward closed to of the torque if the fronts start to spin; a switch on the dash tin lock the transmission inwards 4 cycle drive mode. The front end disc / bring upward drum brakes experience soft initially but plough out to live on easily modulated together with quite effective inwards bringing the whole affair to a halt. The Escape regularly bests other compact SUVs inwards braking distances.

The 3.0 V6 is the Escape equally it should receive got been from the start. Now it feels every combat equally enjoyable equally its bigger siblings. Roomy interior, generous equipment, softly burbling engine, together with effortless acceleration from whatsoever rpm. With closed to cars y'all mightiness desire to teach upward early, merely to relish the drive. With the Escape V6, there's no involve for that—it does the waking upward when y'all teach behind the wheel. Even if y'all selection closed to other coloring instead of yellow.