I bought my 2006 Ford Hybrid car brand new and loved every minutes until the end of its life. The car was a great little family car and it was a joy to drive. Everyone in my family wanted to drive it, it almost felt like we needed to sign up sheet to schedule your time to be able to get time just to get to drive my own car. We took my Escape Hybrid cross country a few time and never had any issues with it. My first year I put 75,000 mile on it and loved every mile to. One trip I drove a group of high school wrestlers to a tournament in Fargo. It snowed the whole trip and my little escape hybrid took it like a champ. I fell in complete love with my 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid. No other car that I bought since haven’t gave me the same feeling I had for my little baby. Toward the end of its little life gave me so many mechanical problems and at the end the engine quit on my because of so much abuse I put it through. I put almost five thousand to repair my baby but because of the Hybrid battery being so expensive, it wasn't worth the repair. It finally was declared DOA.