I asked for an Escape Ecoboost section, as there was previously not one here.
It has been aptly named the Escape ST area.
In reality, no such ST model exists in the Escape lineup, but I strongly feel the 2.0 Ecoboost deserves/can pull off the moniker.
As of last week, we've added this 2013 Escape ST fwd with 2.0 Ecoboost to the stable.
We drove an AWD as well, and while it's a cool feature and nice to have, we really wont be using it for anything remotely off roadish (have several "real" body on frame 4wds for that). The additional weight (and cost!!!), was noticeable performance wise as well.
Must say - this thing RIPS!!! Doesnt hardly feel off from our 2013 Focus ST. Truthfully, it shouldn't. The ST should weigh in at 3300, this one is around 3450-3500 from what I gather. The 6spd auto in this one is marvelous - I'm absolutely a "row your own" fella, but the shifts are crisp, fast and efficient. I'll bet this is a case were an auto version actually would trump a manual at the strip (though no manual escape 2.0 turbo is available). There arent many humans that can shift this fast, and in a turbo car, keeping the boost at full song really pays off. Power wise it's rated at 240, whereas the Focus is stated at 252. Torque figures are stated at an identical 270.
Can't wait to get this to the strip to see what surprises she can pull off. Another online car rag tested a loaded out Titanium edition with awd at 14.9. I have to say this thing oughta run a low 14 if that's true, which puts it squarely in the same zone as the Focus ST.
So far we've added what I feel is the requisite ST badge to the rear, and our Massive billet oil cap.
Next will be an intake system (this will most likely be developed and then come to market shortly there after) and an axle back exhaust system (again - for sale soon). Then a tune and possibly test out our adjustable waste gate actuator.
We are certainly researching wheel options as well. Needs bigger rollers to fill out these huge wheel wells. 5x108 bolt pattern definitely kinda sucks... May redrill the hubs, as spacers would poke out most any wheel setup a tad to much. Would love some 19" factory GT500 wheels on this thing. Kinda "make our own" Escape ST as Ford might have made it. Then again the Focus RS MK2 Euro 19"s in 5x108 will be available from FR in about 3 weeks.... those would be hot as well.
All in all this is an excellent vehicle, and with a an unreal purchase price of ~24K, an unbeatable deal.
So far with only 500 miles on the clock she's returning 28mpg in mixed use. My jaw is still on the floor.
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Welcome! Nice to have another enthusiast on board, and look forward to the mods you may research/implement :)
I as well have a new Escape 2.0L & KST is right, it's a real quick SUV. I call it my SHO's little brother. My wife really doesn't know how quick it is, she's just ga, ga over the extended sun roof
My Ford retired Exec friend has a red 1.6 turbo Escape... Nice vehicle for a family!
Just purchased a Titanium 2.0. Will be wife's daily driver. I am using the excuse of having to break it in while she is at work. Nice vehicle-replacement for her 2003 Tahoe-which she loved.
Will be interested in seeing the mods.
Man that's great to both hear & see.....
I saw a commercial recently for that fully retractable glass roof feature....
Very, VERY sharp :bow:
Makes me want one on my SHO.
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Mike:
That's the feature that sold it to my wife. Makes it close to convertible. Even when closed it's neat. But for her NO MODS ALLOWED!! Anyway kept her out of a KIA.
MikeV
Nice Escape turbo. Great little suv's. Have Torrie at Unleashed throw a tune on that thing. Scare your friends. Lol
Quote from: Needmoreboost on July 30, 2013, 06:51:12 PM
Nice Escape turbo. Great little suv's. Have Torrie at Unleashed throw a tune on that thing. Scare your friends. Lol
First I have seen/heard re tune for 2.0EB. Hmmmm!!!
Quote from: double c on July 30, 2013, 01:50:57 PM
Just purchased a Titanium 2.0. Will be wife's daily driver. I am using the excuse of having to break it in while she is at work. Nice vehicle-replacement for her 2003 Tahoe-which she loved.
Will be interested in seeing the mods.
How about a few photos of it. Would love to check it out. I'm afraid we'll be in the market soon to replace the '04 Explorer.
Mark:
Love our Escape, but ours is a 1 yr wonder. Ford did away w/ the SEL model. Don't ask my why.It was several K lower in cost than Titanium, but had following features my wife wanted. Leather seats, full panorama roof, my touch w/nav, & what I wanted 2.0L. This car is very quick. My wife has had 5 women in it, so big enough. The only things that I might say remotely as minuses. If you get the light interior you will need to get some new floormats. The light berber ones look bad within a couple weeks. She's trying to decide to replace w/ Lloyd carpet w/darker color or like what I have in my SHO weathertek. Only negative of weatherteck, they are slippery but do they work, I put up with slippery to get the max protection & fit that weathertek does.. On the leather seats, if you are expecting them to be like your SHO, they won't be. Not near as comfortable, but still OK. The SHO spoils us. Mileage is probably less than what they say. Right now about 20 around town, but that's with a light foot. Mark any other questions just ask. When I was looking, I ruled out foreign so that left GM & Ford, as Chrysler didn't have anything & was looking for reasons to by Ford & found enough to convince her. The Kia, Hundai, & Honda are real close to it but like I said steered her away from import. One other plus insurance on a 4 cyl is less than a 6, nice surprise!
MikeV
Mark;
Will post some picts as soon as I can get it away from wife-and if it is not raining.
Second MVAL comments. I haven't driven it but about 12 miles (less than 100 thus far)-but it is a nice competent vehicle. All bells and whistles except towing package. Figured power liftgate would see more use. Have ordered Weathertek mats/cargo liner. Don't think it will have same comfort level as the SHO over a long drive. Seats not as big/supportive/cooled, shorter wheelbase, lighter etc... but we will try it in Sept. Sure won't be a snowmobile like the Tahoe-but if it gets that bad I can stay in.
Like MVAL, considered several other-but wife is short-needs to be careful in getting behind wheel to get airbag distance. Power Pedals are way to go as in Tahoe/SHO-but now hard to find in anything under 50K. Fit became first priority. Looked at foreign-only Subaru had a turbo that I would consider-Forester. Nice vehicle-great vision-adaptive cruise (not in Escape) and very very quick-60 times about 6.3. Just quirky tho-CVT, styling, interior, 2014 and more money.
So we Escaped.
Right about the SEL being dropped, but SE can be had with all the goodies. probably more to load it up than a loaded Titanium.
Aways good to have choices.
Mark:
& I'm not sure double needs it but a great item it has is that it keeps 3 seat & outside mirrors positons in memory & we have my daughter who uses it also. I know the Subaru got high marks on the crash test from my wife but we have just a few dealers & like to stay mainstream & at this time USA if I could. Never had a Subaru ever. So not drawn to it. Seats are heated though not cooled but it's not a SHO Like double said on a longer drive it was a unanimous vote, we took the SHO. As far as color. We ended up with the Frosted Glass metallic. It's a throwback to the 60-70's turqouise. I like, but liked the fact it had the 2.0 but women love it, my wife has got lots of comments from her friends & it's way different.
Wife finally relented and allowed me to be driver 2. Will be no 3-unless I need a second position. And so much easier to set than working off key fob.
I updated the name to Escape Ecoboost :)
If you guys want me to change it back I will.
You guys don't seem very impressed with the leather seats (overall)...I'm surprised the leather in our Explorer (of course it is an o4) are pretty supportive and comfortable, as were the ones in our 02....and they have held up rather well. The driver's seat is showing some wear, but it's now got almost 100K and lots of use on it.
The leather is probably fine. It is the size/bolstering/support/comfort on long haul that maybe an issue.
We just picked at a 2013 Escape for my wife's DD. We had one for a rental when we were down in FL earlier this year and I was pretty impressed with it. We had a FWD and saw 28ish MPG throughout the trip. This one is AWD and so far it's been in the 24 range. I love the trans, shifting is so smooth and the dang thing is quiet. I still wouldn't give the twins up for it though, lol.
We went camping this weekend and towed a small trailer and 4 wheeler home for one of our friends. It did well with it, didn't seem to notice it was back there.
So far we've tinted the windows and taillights, will probably get rid of the chrome on the sides as well.
Definitely will tune it if and when SCT comes out with their stuff and a few other things. One thing for sure is the floor mats need replaced, those stockers S U C K!
red:
Yes love our Escape as well. That 2.0L is a quick engine carrying around 3400#'s. For the first time since I can remember I don't mind being seen in my wife's car. I even convinced my wife & that's a job that the floormats had to go. That berber look just didn't work & they are way little. I went with weathertek front & rear. Worked great except the passenger front needed a little help to keep it from slipping around. They just didn't make it tall enough. Drivers side & back where perfect just like the ones that I put on my SHO.
I'll have to look into some Weather Teks, these just won't cut it when the snow flies. She came from a Lexus IS, so I didn't mind being seen in it, but I think this thing drives nicer honestly. Hell my FX4 drives nicer than that Lexus did. Don't get me wrong it was a nice car it just wasn't what I expected when we bought one.
So since this is the same motor as the Focus ST will some of the bolt-ons work for it, I would like to hear a little turbo whistle from it.
-Justin
Justin:
I would think so, but have vowed not to touch it to keep her out of the Kia she wanted. Anyway went to dinner last night & car in front was not going fast enough for her usual light foot & she blew by it. Told her she "Turboed Them" & got a smile & thank you for getting her to go with it. I may have created a monster, the next thing she'll want to drive my SHO.NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's funny we actually test drove a Kia the day before I convinced her to try the Escape for herself. She likes the turbo for sure, actually you should have seen her face when I let her drive the truck when I put the SoCal tune on, she liked it before but if I remember right, "holy s*** this things fast" were the words that came out of her mouth that night. I doubt a turbo upgrade is in the future, but a tune and a few bolt ons may be.
Ok-found a negative on the 2.0L. To check the tranny fluid you have to have the dealer do it, i.e. no dip stick. Anybody figure a way around this?
Only reason i checked was my 2002 Stratus threw a tranny last week. Only 69K mile on it,but have to remember it's really a rice burner underneath the Dodge body.. But immediately started checking rest of cars. Which brings up another question on the SHO, anybody with the Airaid CAI done anything to make it easier to check tranny fluid besides removing whole unit?
Thanks
MikeV
Back from Florida on first trip with Escape. Nice vehicle for the long haul. Liked the way it handled/ride comfort/road noise. All positive. Tires tend to sing on different surfaces-but not intrusive. Never faltered at cruising speed-mostly 75 on I-95. Turning a little over 2000 RPM at that speed and was able to still accelerate easily. Engine never felt/sounded buzzy or strained. Overall trip was 2200 mile at 26 mpg. Used only 93 octane. About same as the SHO on the same trip. Had enough room and good driving position. As passenger, room comfort was good-not up to SHO-but was fine for trip. Did not feel tired or stiff after 12 hours on road.
No ACC like SHO-but cancel/resume cruise is very easy with a wheel mounted paddle-at about the 9:00 position. Very easy to flip in and out of cruise.
Liked the lift gate-very easy to access cargo-an advantage over trunk on SHO. Seemed to be about same cargo volume. Everything fit easily.
All in all it was a fine vehicle for the trip. Nice to have options-next time perhaps the SHO will go.
Now to see how it is with tailgating. Won't be the Tahoe. May have to be more selective-cut out a chair in order to take the right amount of beer-which is never enough.
double:
That's a nice test for your Escape. my wife mainly drives it around town & get around 20 mph, but & I had to almost hogtie her into getting now is thrilled to death with it as well as many of her friends who have ridden with her. She sold one last month a friend of hers was going to buy an Outback & ended up w/ an Escape.
As you mentioned the lift gate is great. For anyone not needing the size of an Explorer, this a great little SUV & that 2.0L really has some pop, I can see why Ford sells a good amount of Focus ST's for young crowd. It got to be real quick in a lighter car.
Mike V
My wife decided a few weeks back that she wanted something a little cheaper and easier to maintain that her '11 A4, so she traded it in, and picked up a nice lightly used '13 Escape 2.0EB/AWD. Pretty highly optioned with Kodiak Brown and black leather. The color is pretty amazing in the right lighting. Trying my best to get a tune and intake in it. :)
Quote from: 281Thunder on March 18, 2014, 06:01:11 PM
My wife decided a few weeks back that she wanted something a little cheaper and easier to maintain that her '11 A4, so she traded it in, and picked up a nice lightly used '13 Escape 2.0EB/AWD. Pretty highly optioned with Kodiak Brown and black leather. The color is pretty amazing in the right lighting. Trying my best to get a tune and intake in it. :)
Way Cool! Another two EB family! What fun you guys will have....
Congratz on the baby EB! Pics?
Congratulations!
Quote from: SHOdded on March 18, 2014, 07:21:34 PM
Congratz on the baby EB! Pics?
Waiting for winter to be quite over with. We cleaned it up this past weekend, but snow yesterday has it nasty again. Need some good weather so the sun can really make the color pop.