Ford Escape Reaches New Compact Crossover Top Deliveries Level

It’s understandable why automakers that don’t currently offer a compact crossover are bum-rushing the labs to contructing them. 

Just have a look at the Ford Escape. The Dearborn company boasted record-breaking deliveries of its Escape today through the first 6 months of 2013. Since January, the automaker has delivered more than 156,000 Escape crossovers. That’s a bigger number within the segment than any other to date.

Ford informs “top trade-ins for Escape are arriving from Honda and Toyota customers.”

“Coastal areas, historically dominated by Honda and Toyota, are vital to overall U.S. share increase of Ford Motor Company,” informed Erich Merkle, Ford deliveries analyst. “Honda’s share of the small utility segment is down 2 full % points this year, as Escape goes on to conquest retail clients on the coasts.” Through the same timeframe, Honda delivered 145,763 of its compact CR-V crossovers.

As the compact crossover segment carries on to swell, Ford and Honda stand out as the two huge brands accounting for most of the market share.

Through the 1st half of the year, Nissan’s Rogue took 3rd place after delivering 79,051 vehicles, which was a boost over the same period last year. Historically, the Toyota RAV4 would sit above the Rogue, but Toyota’s compact utility car lost positions in deliveries so far this year where Nissan conquered.

Last year the CR-V outsold the Escape by around 20,000 vehicles, riding on the introduction of a new gen. Nowadays, the Escape has that advantage with a new gen uncovered for the 2013 model year.

Deliveries have remained strong through a series of returns ranging in severity but featuring fire risks that experienced Ford establishing all of its brand-new Escapes.