Hybrid SUVs are all over the place these days, but their existence was predicated by the Ford Escape Hybrid. When it went on sale for 2005, the Escape Hybrid was the first-ever SUV with a gas-electric ...

Few segments are hotter than the hybrid compact crossover market, and Ford hopes it can entice buyers with the Escape, which is positioned below the Explorer in the automaker's line of hybrid SUVs.

Ford has announced a refreshed and revamped 2023 Escape lineup that maintains plug-in hybrid and hybrid models, with the latter among the versions that can be had in a sportier-looking ST-Line guise.