Did you call this as a car that would last 300,000 miles?
As plentiful as the opportunities are to test brand new cars at our home base, there are plenty of folks out there who want to know how certain cars hold up over the years. That makes all the sense in the world, considering those who buy brand-new cars are dropping huge amounts of money on something that (rightfully) should last them many happy, trouble-free years.
Or, on the flip side, some others are like our good friend David, who definitely doesn’t want to blow the bank on $100,000 trucks, or indeed a similarly painful amount of money on a new SUV. So, instead, he’s been running around in a particular daily driver that’s been with the Morrow family for years, literally driving far enough to reach the moon and then back: a first-generation Ford Escape.
I bet you wouldn’t have guessed that — and given how much these vehicles got thrashed, I wouldn’t have either.
Nevertheless, as Tommy says in the video below, “this is perhaps the most reliable, cheapest and perhaps best cheap car on the market”. And for good reason: You can find these first-gen Escapes for under $3,000 all day long. And if you want a lower-mileage, probably less abused example, you can still get them for well under $7,000. That’s pretty damn cheap, considering today’s least expensive brand-new Escape will set you back at least $30,990.
Check out more on David’s ride below!
