Filed under: Government/Legal, Green, Crossovers/CUVs, Ford Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Escape Hybrid Ford CEO Alan Mulally has made the politically correct decision for his return trip to Washington DC this week and is skipping the company jet. In fact, he's skipping the airport altogether and hitting the road in an Escape Hybrid. It seems like it would have been better to grab one of the brand new Fusion Hybrids, but no one in Washington should be too upset at the choice of the Escape. The last one we tested for AutoblogGreen averaged 33 mpg. Perhaps he'll even take one of the prototype plug-in hybrid versions, although that wouldn't make much sense for the nine-hour drive. In our reader poll you actually opted for the Fusion by a wide margin, followed by the Fiesta and Mustang. The Escape came in at a respectable fourth. Gallery: ABG Garage: 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid Limited [Source: Automotive News - Sub. Req.] Photos Copyright (C)2008 Sam Abuelsamid / Weblogs, Inc.Mulally chooses Escape Hybrid for D.C. road trip originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments More...
I think the outrage of the last trip to DC was the 3 seperate luxury private jets used to get them from Detroit to DC! The idea was that they should probably have flown coach on a commercial liner... Now they have turned it into a big publicity stunt 'roadtrip'. If they just had to drive, I'd have been more impressed if they used a generic rental car or actually car-pooled the 3 together. When average Joe goes to a rental company, he can't choose his car model... Just a 'size class'.
