Ford Escape

Vignale AWD

Escape’s head-up display projects onto a transparent panel that sprouts from the dash-top while CX-5’s is onto the windscreen – but both units are handy. Ford’s wide-angle reversing camera display is brilliant, bringing a sense of being able to see around corners and providing terrific confidence during manoeuvres. The 12.3-inch virtual cluster brings flashy graphics with the selection of each drive mode. Love the white-stitched upholstery; not so much the biggrained dog-nose finish on lowlevel plastics. Chief criticism of busy steering wheel buttons is that cruise is where you would expect to find volume.