Ford Escape Hybrid

Which Ford Escape Hybrid years should you avoid?

Going by 1,746 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Ford Escape Hybrid years to avoid are 2008 and 2020.

• 2008443 complaints, 3.2× a typical Escape Hybrid year, most often about the brakes.
• 2020290 complaints, 2.1× a typical Escape Hybrid year, most often about the body and frame.

Too new to judge: 2025. Complaints take a few years to arrive, so a new model year looks better than it is.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →