So back in 2012 when I bought the C6 the wife also wanted a new vehicle so we traded her 2010 Escape in for a 2013. At the time we loved the Escape and thought it was a great move.
Fast forward now 2.5 years later and the car has been recalled 5 or 6 times now including one where we were in a Hyundai Santa Fe rental for 2 months. The MyFord Touch Infotainment system is the biggest piece of shit and about once a week she would get in and have no audio until she turned the car off and turned it back on, last week it just decided to have no audio period no matter what you did so it went in Thursday for service. I have been trying to get her to let me trade it for a Volt for a while but Thursday was the last straw, she said I could start looking (In her mind this meant maybe in a month or two we would be in a volt.... LOL). Also it got 21mpg constantly at normal highway speeds. A far cry from the advertised 30.
Found a 2013 Volt Premium (Heated Leather Seats and doesn't have that ugly White center console the base models do) with 26k on it for $18,5k (Window sticker in the glovebox shows MSRP at $41,300) in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio so I drove the escape up with a cracked windshield and worn front tires and accepted being $2.5k upside down on it to get rid of it.
Can't say enough good about this car so far. Lot of misconceptions out there about this car and EV's in general, it is truly a pleasure to drive. On my wifes first day commuting we got 43.8 miles on a single charge with 10.7kWh used to do that. I am currently paying right around 13.5 cents a kWh so figure it cost us $1.44 in electricity for those 43.8 miles compared to 2 gallons of gas it would have been in the escape. When I drove it home from the dealer there was no charge so I had to drive it on home on all gas, averaged 37mpg.
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