The Great Escape
2005 Ford Escape Hybrid 
Ford is making them and selling them now. AEman's brother owns a small Ford dealership and just got his first allotment of to Escape Hybrids ... one pre-sold before it hit the lot.
It's the first SUV hybrid and as such represents the best and the worst of what's available today. Best for its use of hybrid propulsion technology; worst for being a fucking SUV (AEman has issues, and one of them is large vehicles designed to look like one thing that really are used for quite another thing).
In a sense then, it's a perfect transition vehicle. Looking like old thing on the outside, carrying the future, invisible, on the inside. It's a hybrid and a hybrid.
Want more details? Don't ask Ford, visit the folks at hybridCARS and you will quickly get a feel for what this car is about and how to get one if you want one.
posted by Andy Bochman at 6:44 PM
 
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