The refreshed 2023 Ford Escape debuted last October with revised styling and some new tech features, along with a totally revamped trim level lineup. However, as has been the case with many automotive models in recent years, 2023 Escape production has faced its fair share of challenges, including a multi-week delay at the Louisville Assembly plant. Order banks for the plug-in hybrid model closed quickly due to high demand, and now, FoMoCo has paused 2023 Ford Escape production in Louisville amid quality issues, according to WDRB News.
Production at Ford’s Louisville plant has reportedly been day-to-day for weeks now, with 2023 Ford Escape production stopping in the middle of last week prior to a scheduled restart on February 20th. While production at the plant has previously been plagued by supply chain issues, this time around, the pause in work is due to a software issue, according to Brandon Reisinger, the plant’s building chairman for UAW Local 862.
The automaker “encountered a few concerns that our engineering team wanted to review and resolve” before resuming production, plant manager Andrew Tapp wrote in a memo to employees. “I can’t stress enough that our internal metrics are really good for the new model, and we have made a lot of progress.” “We are committed to ensuring our vehicles are built with the quality our customers deserve and will take the appropriate actions to deliver this commitment,” Ford spokeswoman Kelli Felker added.
While the refreshed 2023 Ford Escape recently earned the highest possible rating in a revised side-impact evaluation test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the crossover has faced its fair share of supply chain issues as well. Those have prompted Ford to drop the Escape’s hands-free tailgate feature, add manual key options, and implement SiriusXM removal options, too.
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If the do not get their House in order they will be just memory of the past. The china battery thing is not good it like if Ford outsourced it motors to a china company. Now with the CATL China deal what is S&K Korea to think about its future with Ford. Since Ford is going cheap with china tech hows that going to improve the customers experience. Delete content when your competition is not is also not the answer. Want to be a tesla bring it in house were you have control. This management team is just not capable of good execution. I will not buy a F150 without a heated steering and it just a shame Ford cannot get a handle on the simple stuff. I hope something changes because I would hate to lose my favorite brand. Farley get your act together go sleep in the factories until you get this stuff fixed like Musk does.
You have a fundamental ignorance of Ford’s battery strategy. You need to go back to school on that.
RWFA, you sure finished the school of “Ford’s battery strategy” with flying colors. That is why you are delegated to be a semi-literate troll. Chill out troll, before the vein in your forehead pops open.
My vascular system is just fine, my latest blood donation confirmed a similar result in my physical.
As said before, I have no connection to Ford. It’s just that I don’t like the pro lies of the K-street troll tag team so I decided to self delegate to expose their bad faith bull$hit.
You know, Mike, it’s funny, I’ve never seen you refute any of their FUD, should I draw a conclusion from that?
If it’s that I’m blowing up your anti BEV pro troll business model built on lies and misrepresentations, I’m sub-zero frosty with that.
Ps I’m still hoping to get a gold star on my forehead from Mr Farley my hero.
Im a Ford truck guy all day long. I have a 2022 F-350 that has 3 recalls, and if the truck does not stop running , its not going to the dealership. all of it is software crap. every year new changes, more tech crap and its always in testing mode, and to top it off there going at this EV crap at great neck speed thats unproven , and has flaws and in the end the public is going to eat these trucks because of failed batteries. who the hell would buy a truck that can tow 3500 lbs for only 70 miles and pay 90K for it. Its insane
Oh Hi Trickey Mickey,
which of the K-street Big Oil tag Team Are you subbing in for?
You have done a good job of delivering your scripted FUDster talking points.
You are as stupidly funny as your silly compatriots, “EV crap at great neck speed thats unproven”
Yep, it’s not like electricity or electronics are well understood, and those batteries?
It’s def not like Teslas are out there doing just fine.
And, oh no, it’s not like Ford still occasionally recalls totally proven and reliable ICE engines for catching fire.
With this battery deal, Ford will become a Chinese communist puppet spying and sending information back to China.
ZOMG!!! They will steal the Bar Scheeze recipe from Win Schuler’s in Marshall ! Call out the Pentagon !
As for puppet, who are you sockpuppeting for?
Well, that explains why few are on lots. Another disaster of a launch. And removing features will only result in one thing. Potential customers walking away.
NC just demonstrated that 1 + 2 = 456
Boy isn’t rwfa the dumbest person here? Wow living in his liberal bubble. Blind. Thinking he is the smartest person in the room. Great entertainment.
RWFA escaped from lunatic asylum. Now the poor creature thinks that he amuses the world with his semi-literate trolling screams into darkness.
Ok… stop already. You seem to run right over the fact you sound worse than the behavior you are want to criticize about RWFA. Why would you do that??
Running right over the fact? WFT? Someone should translate this into English.
Oh K-street Mike, I still think you would deliberately fail to comprehend it because it doesn’t fit your agenda.
I think Upton Sinclair aptly captured the mindset of you and your tag team:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Because I blow up every lie they tell. Somebody paid them to do this but their patron can’t be too enthusiastic when their little lies are countered with big truths.
I can handle it, I have broad enough shoulders. (I do like hearing from the folks who appreciate the fact checking tho, bc that and my glee at making them squirm st being called out is this semi-literate’s only recompense.)
Oh K-street Mike, you are sounding quite shrill. 😳
I guess my campaign to torpedo your pro trolling is bringing your business model into question. 💥
I am very much pleased at this thought. 😘
Oh Dwayne D, we long ago established that you are grade DD dumb.
I am immensely enjoying how you and your K-street pro troll tag team are trying to drag me.
But as founding father, John Adams was said to have said “facts are stubborn things”, so I’ll keep stubbornly bringing the facts and receipts as long as you and your sociopathic team ply your trade here.
All I know is Ford needs to get this quality under control. I am a boomer and a Ford guy through and through. I own an Escape, Explorer and Mustang. I won’t even list all the Fords that I have owned . I have always accepted a few rattles here and there in my Fords because they ran forever. If reliability is not improved, I will have to go elsewhere. Once Ford looses the people like me, they will continue to loose as we are the brand ambassadors.
Hang in there Jim, just keep in mind Ford entered the pandemic with a lot of problems baked in from past management and they are working their way through them.
Product development and correction cycles have long tails and results unfortunately cannot happen overnight.
I’m with you one more ford then I am going to look elsewhere right now I have a 2023 escape on order hope they get their quality issues resolved. Time to get rid of Farley since he took over it has been all down hill. They need a person with an engineering background to run the place not a saleman.