</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by hopa2000:
<strong>I think Ford's coming out with a hybrid Explorer next year. Maybe the Escape, not Explorer. Whatever. Either way...

I haven't seen the torque numbers for it but I don't think it's got a whole lot of juice. Not that soccer mom's need lots a torque to bring the groceries home anyway!! <img border="0" alt="[Hillbilly]" title="" src="graemlins/notooth.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">It's an Escape. And their goal power-wise was to make it perform as well as the uprated V6 engined model. It's supposed to get something like 50 mpg too.

--Dan