Coming off a refresh for the 2023 model year, the Ford Escape hadn’t really experienced any major changes to date – at least – until the 2025 model year. As Ford Authority has reported over the past couple of weeks, the 2025 Ford Escape has faced its fair share of deletions in terms of standard equipment, coupled with a few additions. However, 2025 Ford Escape customers at least won’t be paying quite as much for the de-contented model as before.
| 2025 Ford Escape | 2024 Ford Escape | + / – 2024 Price | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active | $27,995 | $29,495 | $-1500 |
| ST-Line | $28,990 | $30,490 | $-1500 |
| ST-Line Hybrid | $32,490 | $33,490 | $-1000 |
| ST-Line Select | $32,230 | $34,040 | $-1810 |
| ST-Line Select Hybrid | $34,190 | $35,190 | $-1000 |
| Platinum | $35,545 | $37,465 | $-1920 |
| Platinum Hybrid | $35,615 | $37,115 | $-1500 |
| ST-Line Elite | $36,540 | $38,460 | $-1920 |
| ST-Line Elite Hybrid | $38,110 | $39,610 | $-1500 |
| PHEV | $38,400 | $40,500 | $-2100 |
| Destination | $1,495 | $1,495 | $0 |
Every trim in the 2025 Ford Escape lineup is cheaper than before, in fact. The price drops range from $1,000 for the ST-Line Select Hybrid up to $2,100 for the PHEV model, with the cheapest trim – the Active – now starting out at $27,995, $1,500 less than the 2024 model year, when its MSRP was $29,495. Additionally, destination charges remain the same at $1,495. Interestingly, the refreshed 2025 Ford Maverick – which shares a platform and other bits with the Escape – just received some substantial price increases, for comparison’s sake, and now starts out just below the Escape at $26,295 for the base XL.
The 2025 Ford Escape has lost quite a few previously-standard features, however. Those include the Cold Weather Package, which was bundled with all-wheel drive Active, ST-Line Active, and ST-Line trims for the 2024 model year. This package can still be added to those models as an option for the cost of $995, and its features remain standard on the ST-Line Select and above.
The 2025 Ford Escape Active has also lost its previously-standard eight-way power driver’s seat, replacing it with a six-way manual seat. The ST-Line is losing its aluminum foot pedals that were previously standard on all three ST-Line trims, while the ST-Line Elite and Platinum are ditching the previously-standard ambient lighting. For 2025, the ST-Line and ST-Line Select are ditching their monochromatic painted bodyside cladding, rocker panels, and bumpers in favor of molded-in-color components. ActiveX seating has replaced leather in the ST-Line Elite with the Premium Technology Package, as well as the PHEV model when equipped with the Premium Package, too.
The 2025 Ford Escape has also ditched its spare tire in non-hybrid models, which no longer come with that part as standard equipment, and instead, The Blue Oval has gone back to equipping them with the Tire Inflator and Sealant Kit, though a spare is still available as an option for pure ICE models. Finally, rain-sensing wipers are no longer standard on the ST-Line Elite and Platinum trims, too. As far as exterior colors go, Space Silver Metallic has been added as a no-cost option for all trims, though Iconic Silver Metallic and Race Red have also been deleted.
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Comments
Anyone ever tried to fix a blowout with a Tire Inflator and Sealant Kit? I know Bill Ford and Jim Farley don’t have to change their own tires but I do and a Kit just isn’t going to do the job.
A little more work on the math, boys and girls. The STLine Hybrid looks like a $1,000 price cut, or are the numbers wrong?
And I think your pictures are ’24s. Those colors shown aren’t available in 2025, are they?
Try and put all of the content deletions back in, You can get most and then you see that $1500 evaporates.
It’s a bad move on an unattractive vehicle. Fodder to cancel it, I assume.
25 is supposed to be the last year anyway….we’re in the last year for the edge right now. I’m really not sure what Ford is thinking. A frickin F150 with a 2.7 and manual seats is 60 grand… I leased a 24 escape st-line 1.5 and it’s actually very nice. I don’t have any complaints about it. I just don’t see how Ford is gonna stay in business when all they’re going to have pretty soon are large SUVS and the F series that cost 60-100 grand
Of course, it’s more affordable after it’s been through the daily de-contenting process.
It’s cheaper because they removed everything that was standard a d made it options… Making the vehicle more expensive when added in. Ford really needs to get it’s act together.