

If you want roomier rear seats, check out the Honda CR-V or Subaru Forester. Though the Escape's rear seats aren't the roomiest in the segment, they still have sufficient legroom and ample headroom for adults. The Escape's front seats are comfortable and wide.

Available features include leather upholstery, power front seats, heated front seats, driver's seat position memory, and a heated steering wheel. The 2017 Escape has seating for five and comes standard with cloth upholstery. Vehicle program manager Chris Mazur notes that 'Virtually every surface a customer will touch is new, in design or material.' Beyond enhanced aesthetics and the greater presence of soft surfaces, the 2017 Escape boasts a more user-friendly multifunction steering wheel - leather-wrapped and heated in some variants - and sees the shifter moved rearward to ease access to improved climate controls." - Kelley Blue Book "The Escape's cabin benefits from the transformation process."Additional sound deadening quiets the ride to near luxury levels of highway isolation.".There are elbow rests throughout, a feature Ford is particularly proud of since engineers and execs kept bringing them up all day." - Autoweek "The interior is generally a lot nicer too, with a reworked dash and center console, made roomier by the switch from a big parking brake lever to an electric parking brake.
