First Drive: 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid
This may be the best-engineered hybrid product to date, making more use of its electric motor with less dependency on the gasoline engine than on any other hybrid we've tested. Eighty-five percent of the vehicle's parts are recyclable, and Ford claims that the Escape will release less than one pound of emissions in 15,000 miles of driving. Score one for planet Earth--and for those of us who inhabit it.