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Comparing 2019 Ford Escape to the 2018 Toyota RAV4

Toyota describes the RAV4 as the right choice for any adventure and highlights these features:

  • Technology
  • Performance
  • Parking-assist technologies

Technology

Simply Stated - Tell Your Customers

  • Compared to Escape, RAV4 appears low-tech when it comes to offering high-tech features today's customers expect

Competitive Chatter - What They're Saying

Toyota states that RAV4 has an impressive list of high-tech features, including:

  • Heated seats
  • Smart Key System
  • Navigation system
  • HomeLink
  • Dual zone automatic temperature control  

Ford Facts

Escape can match all of the RAV4 high-tech features,
PLUS, Escape offers features not available on any RAV4, including:

  • Driver knee airbag
  • Rain-sensing windshield wipers*
  • Enhanced active park assist*
  • SecuriCode invisible keypad*
  • 4G LTE Wi-Fi Hotspot*
  • FordPass Connect,*(1) which allows the owner to use an app on their phone to start the vehicle, check fuel level and more                                                           

Performance

Simply Stated - Tell Your Customers

  • Two of the Escape three engine choices are more powerful than the RAV4's one engine, giving the Escape customer more choices to meet their specific performance needs
  • Escape offers one ton more maximum towing capacity - the equivalent of two Jet Skis or a snowmobile

Competitive Chatter - What They're Saying

Toyota touts the 4-cylinder engine in RAV4 as offering:

  • 176 horsepower 
  • 172 lb.-ft. of torque
  • Max. towing capacity of 1500 lbs.

Ford Facts

  • Escape offers three engine choices - two of which are EcoBoost engines - compared to just one choice with RAV4:
    • 1.5L EcoBoost I-4:
      • More horsepower - with 179 horsepower or 3 more horsepower than RAV4
      • More torque - with 177 lb.-ft. of torque or an additional 5 lb.-ft. of torque over RAV4
    • 2.0L EcoBoost I-4:
      • More horsepower - with 245 horsepower(2) or an additional 69 horsepower over RAV4
      • More torque - with 275 lb.-ft. of torque(2) or an additional 103 lb.-ft. of torque over RAV4
    • 2.5L i-VCT I-4 with 168 horsepower 

PLUS, Escape, equipped with the 2.0L EcoBoost engine and Class II Trailer Tow Package, has 3500 lbs. of towing capacity or an additional 2000 lbs. of capacity over RAV4. 

 

Parking-assist Technologies

Simply Stated - Tell Your Customers

  • Enhanced active park assist*(3) on Escape senses an adequately sized parking spot and then steers Escape into that spot with minimal driver input
  • The Bird's Eye View Camera with Perimeter Scan on RAV4 is not an automatic parking assist and will not locate a parking space, nor steer the vehicle into it
    • It offers only a screen for drivers to monitor while regulating the steering, brakes and gas at the same time - no automatic 

Competitive Chatter - What They're Saying

Toyota promotes the RAV4's available Bird's Eye View Camera, which helps the driver:

  • See nearby objects around the vehicle
  • Get in and out of small spaces with ease

Plus, its Perimeter Scan displays live, rotating 360-degree views of the driver's surroundings when parked.

Ford Facts

  • The Escape enhanced active park assist*(3) senses an adequately sized parallel or reverse perpendicular parking space, then steers Escape into that space
  • All the driver has to do is control the gear shifter, accelerator and brake pedals
  • The RAV4 system is not automatic and requires the driver to watch an in-vehicle screen while controlling the steering, brakes and gas at the same time

* Denotes available feature.

(1) Available feature. FordPass Connect (formerly SYNC Connect) is an optional feature on select vehicles, and is required for certain features. FordPass Connect includes a 1-year subscription for remote features excluding Wi-Fi hotspot, starting with the vehicle sale date (after which, fees apply). Subscription is subject to compatible 4G LTE network availability. Evolving technology/cellular networks may affect future functionality. Certain restrictions, 3rd-party terms, and/or message/data rates may apply. Wi‑Fi hotspot includes complimentary wireless data trial that begins at time of AT&T activation and expires at the end of 3 months or when 3 GB of data is used, whichever comes first, but cannot extend beyond the complimentary subscription period for remote features. To activate, go to www.att.com/ford.

(2) Horsepower and torque ratings achieved with 93-octane fuel.

(3) Non-angled parking spaces. Driver-assist features are supplemental and do not replace the driver's attention, judgment and need to control the vehicle.Â