"Chenz759" > wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'll be in the market for a new car in the next few months and
> The Escape seems like it might fit the bill.
> Does anyone have any experience with this vehicle?
> Think it could handle this kind of driving?

We had one come along on a 4WD trip run by our 4WD club.
It didnt' make it through the first part of the weekend.
And all we'd done was a fire-trail.

The problem was the humps they put on the tracks to make water flow across
the track rather than down it.
It kept bottoming out on these humps. And it wasn't long before a bashplate
was driven up into the works.
We had to stop 3 times, about 30 minutes each time, to bash the thing back
down again - not made any easier by the difficult access, and the fact that
it's mounted on rubber, so all attempts to bash it back were absorbed by the
rubber.
They had to come home on the blacktop on the second day, while we all
continued on with the 4WDing.


Can't say anything about it's sand capabilities, but it's ground clearance
was woefully inadequate even for a basic Australian Fire Trail.
It wouldn't likely have a hope in hell of doing anything more severe.

Trentus