2.0-liter EcoBoost in our all-wheel-drive Escape Titanium made sauce of the numbers posted earlier by a front-wheel-drive 2017 Escape Titanium with the 1.5-liter EcoBoost engine. With a zero-to-60-mph time of 7.1 seconds and a quarter-mile run of 15.6 seconds, the 2.0-liter shaved 2.1- and 1.3-seconds off the 9.2- and 16.9-second times returned by the lighter, two-wheel-drive, 1.5-liter Escape. Among the four-cylinder competition, only the aforementioned Subaru Forester with its 2.0-liter turbocharged flat-four manages to outrun this Escape, reaching 60 mph in 6.3 seconds and completing the quarter in 15 seconds flat. The 2.0-liter EcoBoost’s horsepower superiority pays dividends in towing, where it’s rated to haul 3500 pounds; the 1.5-liter EcoBoost is rated for 2000 pounds, and the base 2.5 four-cylinder can tug only 1500 pounds.